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Giallorossi manager has struggled to build and his relationship with Claudio Ranieri is beginning to fray
Right from the beginning of Gian Piero Gasperini?s time as Roma manager, there have been people who believed it would all end in tears. Despite a brilliant record with Atalanta, whom he made into consistent top four contenders, as well as winning the Europa League in 2024, a section of his new club?s support was opposed to his appointment. ?Respect our history,? read one banner outside the Stadio Olimpico last May. ?Don?t bring that **** Gasperini to [Roma?s training ground at] Trigoria.?
Such objections were born more from rivalry than doubts about the quality of his work. Unsurprisingly, given that the Giallorossi were in direct competition with Atalanta throughout most of Gasperini?s nine-year tenure there, he had made various comments that got under fans? skin.
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Right from the beginning of Gian Piero Gasperini?s time as Roma manager, there have been people who believed it would all end in tears. Despite a brilliant record with Atalanta, whom he made into consistent top four contenders, as well as winning the Europa League in 2024, a section of his new club?s support was opposed to his appointment. ?Respect our history,? read one banner outside the Stadio Olimpico last May. ?Don?t bring that **** Gasperini to [Roma?s training ground at] Trigoria.?
Such objections were born more from rivalry than doubts about the quality of his work. Unsurprisingly, given that the Giallorossi were in direct competition with Atalanta throughout most of Gasperini?s nine-year tenure there, he had made various comments that got under fans? skin.
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