ADL: ‘Koulibaly stays in January but…’ Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis assures Kalidou Koulibaly is going nowhere in January “but the time will come where we can’t refuse other indecent offers”. The Partenopei owner rejected a £95m bid, believed to be from Manchester United, but the Senegalese defender may be sold if another massive offer arrives. “We won’t sell Koulibaly in January,” De Laurentiis told Corriere del Mezzogiorno. “But the time will come where we can’t refuse other indecent offers. We always invest, but with criteria. “In Italy there are two or three clubs with balanced books, and I’m the only one who doesn’t have any bank debt.”
Inter beat Milan and moves into 3rd with 53pts. 3. Inter 53pts 4. Milan 51pts 5. Roma 47pts 6 Lazio 45pts (have played a game less than the 3 ahead of them) Roma not making the Champions League would force them to sell big players and be further behind the current top 4.
Given Milan clubs are rich it is bettre for us Roma don’t qualify. They will have less money. Also Milan clubs will have to abide by fair play if in CL.
Having a stronger Milan and Inter is better for us. It makes it harder for us to win the league yes, but it raises the level of the league so we will need to get stronger to compete and therefore we could do better in Europe.
Roma not making the CL means they are fcked like badly they will lose any player of value we should make some bids for some of their players before juve does lol
well hence the lol at the end of the sentence. I know damn well he wont but I dont want to see freaking Zaniolo go to Juve.
I know which is why I started out saying hilarious. If you believe the tabloids he'll be at Real before he goes to Rube.
I read somewhere Zaniolo is a Juve Fan... God I hope he doesn't go there but there's no release clause so I can't see Roma negotiating with them anyways.
He’s a Juve fan but also a big Totti fan. Seems like more of a fan of Italian football than a die hard supporter who would chose clubs based on it.
What will happen if Roma don’t qualify for CL? Will the team get weaker or will they still spend? More importantly will they keep Under, Kleuivert and Zanilo?
Guys remember we didn't make CL at Rafa's last season.Sarri came and we competed for scudetto.It could be advantage for Roma.
No it can't. We were financially stable. They need the Champions League money. They'll be forced to sell a few young players and we had a better team when Sarri arrived compared to this Roma team.
Jorginho was nothing , K2 was untrustable , ghoulam was average , Hamsik was a backup and higuain was a loser when sarri arrived.We bought Hysaj , Allan , Pepe etc. You never know mate . They have too many good prospects.If they keep them and bring conte or someone like him , they will be in top 3 for sure
Even with Rafa we were always favoured to come top 2 or 3 because the squad was strong enough to be there, it's just Rafa was shit and only brought us 4th. Koulibaly had massive potential when he was brought in, he was tipped to be the next Kompany and he's better than that, Jorginho was a good regista, Ghoulam was never just average he was never a problem and never a liability at all. Hamsik a backup? when? Higuain a loser? Again.. when? Allan did very well for Udinese, Hysaj and Valdifiori were Sarri buys and that was that. Roma's defence is Manolas. A player who they may be forced to sell to make money. If Manolas is sold their defence will be horrendous. They will not be able to keep all of their prospects. Expect at least 1 of Kluivert, Under or Zaniolo to be sold. Probably Under.
We will completely overhaul the squad with no CL. At least one of Under, Zaniolo, Kluivert will be sold, maybe 2. Under is the first in line to be sold as he is very valuable compared to his impact on the team. Kluivert has not done anything yet which makes him likely to stay. That leaves Zaniolo who I hope our management has the balls to keep and I would rather sell all our old overpaid players which we likely will anyway. We will likely end up with a big plusvalenza but IMO our team right now is so disfunctional I could see us improving anyway. The downside is we will have to sell our biggest future assets to fund it which could see us lose Zaniolo.
Rafe to be honest would make a great DS. If you think about it he left us a great foundation of players. Also other than Michiu all the players he brought in did great jobs.
You need to build a team around Zanilo. I think Roma has decent players and should keep Zanilo, Kleuivert, Under, SES, Pellegrini, Nzonzi, Pastore, Manolas. Would sell Dzeko and Schick. Florenzi will stay given his high salaries. Roma overpays which is so ething zi never understood.
His transfers were phenomenal but he would bench Jorginho and Inler for Gargano or Insigne and Mertens for De Guzman.