I hope so. I'm all for extremely promising young talent, but we need to replace our starters first unless we are planning on going in a different direction for a few years.
Just for the record Foyth has been officially signed either. Has anyone actually seen this guy though? Was going through his profile and noticed that he's already 20 years old but has just 4 senior appearances under his belt, whereas Lamela had like 36 appearances for River at the ripe old age of 18 when Roma bought him. It would worry me if we go for this guy who couldn't even break the starting 11 at Estudiantes at age 20...
yea, that was my concern as well. I'm all for signing prospects but for the rumored prices.. that's just too much for a club like Roma to gamble on a young player with no experience.
No preseason thread. Our XI to face @1_FCS: Alisson; Peres, Castan, Jesus, Lu. Pellegrini; M. Ricci, Gonalons, Gerson; Cappa, Tumminello, Perotti.#RomaFCS pic.twitter.com/onD9XB0oFG— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) July 14, 2017
People want to crucify the new sporting director 2 weeks into his first market, ridiculous. The fans complain about Roma not doing their jobs but the toxic atmosphere some of them create are the reason we can't grow. If we let these people work with just a little less scrutiny we'd be more successful. La Roma non si discute. Si ama.
Italian love is a paradox. One second its pure and then the next daggers appear as if betrayed by Venus herself.
#Massara leaving #Roma to rejoin Walter #Sabatini at #Suning https://t.co/Y7JAET9ohM— RomaPress (@ASRomaPress) July 19, 2017
📆 | The first half of the campaign... #ASRoma pic.twitter.com/6221T5qBif— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) July 26, 2017 Destroying Inter would be the perfect start.
A fair number of back-back tough games, although they're at least spread out. No months that look like death. Atalanta away and then Spalletti's Inter after is a hell of a test for Di Francesco to start the season.
Dani Osvaldo visited his ex #ASRoma teammates today, gifting Daniele De Rossi his band's CD #Argentina #SerieA #Saintsfc pic.twitter.com/EgAEkGjACv— Football Italia (@footballitalia) August 6, 2017
Morgan De Sanctis is branded "a filthy swine" by #ASRoma 'fans' following his return to the club as team manager. (via @cmdotcom) pic.twitter.com/HTH7ed4zsE— Football Italia (@footballitalia) August 7, 2017
footballitalia @footballitalia·3h Stems from him dobbing in Roma's ultras to the police after he was hounded by them during a 3-0 loss to Fiorentina in the EL two years ago.
If Manolas doesn't play better vs Seville I'd be happy to sell him for the right price. He's arguably been the worst CB so far this summer.
Supporter de l'OM et grand fan de football. Merci de votre visite Président. @EmmanuelMacron pic.twitter.com/KduOgA2TPs— Rudi Garcia (@RudiGarcia) August 15, 2017
Still a few teams to be decided, but this is what the pots are looking like for Thursday's draw: Pot 1 Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Monaco, Spartak Moscow, Benfica, Shakhtar Donetsk Pot 2 Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund, Sevilla, Manchester City, Porto, Manchester United Pot 3 Napoli, Tottenham, Basel, Olympiakos, Anderlecht, Roma, Besiktas, Liverpool Pot 4 Celtic, CSKA Moscow/Young Boys, Copenhagen/Qarabag, Sporting CP/Steaua, APOEL/Slavia Prague, Feyenoord, Maribor, RB Leipzig Spartak Moscow, Benfica, and Shakhtar would be dream pot 1 draws
Walter Sabatini admits no #ASRoma silverware “my biggest affliction” but accuses James Pallotta of self-indulgence https://t.co/KVUJqLQlTk pic.twitter.com/jq9Cj9jFIM— Football Italia (@footballitalia) August 23, 2017
There is the potential for a lot of fun matchups in the group stage. Chelsea, Dortmund, Roma, Celtic would be a really fun group to watch.
I'm done with fun groups, I want an easy one. We can all have fun watching Bayern rip us apart in the quarter finals.
I said this last year and given Monchi is probably going to take a couple of years to build the squad I'll say it this year. I would actually be ok if we played well in the group, got knocked out and won the EL. Still my biggest complaint / regret regarding Roma was the EL last year. We could have won that. Spalletti deciding to play a strong squad in the CI really cost us both, IMO.