Claudio Ranieri and Gian Piero Gasperini in transfer row at Roma

Last June, Claudio Ranieri and Gian Piero Gasperini sat smiling side by side, two of Italy's most respected coaches united in their efforts to make  AS Roma  a Serie A contender again. Less than a year later, Ranieri and Gasperini are fighting over control of the capital club, which is in sixth place and at risk of missing the  Champions League  for a seventh straight year. Ranieri stepped down as Roma coach after last season when the team missed out on qualifying for the Champions League by one point. He then became a special adviser for the team's American owners and was involved in picking Gasperini as his successor. "We had a list of five or six coaches, three didn't come and in the end the club made the choice," Ranieri said last week. "We selected [Gasperini] because of what he did in Atalanta with his young players. He and I chose the players. ... We gave him a squad that finis