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Big game against Fiorentina who are 1 point behind, Bologna V Juventus too so Roma could gain on one if not both today
Blue83
Player Valuation: £30m
Be a faff moving the stadium to Italysoon be us
9LeagueTitles5FACups
Player Valuation: £10m
Just think where they would have been in the table if Ranieri would have took over earlier. They may well have been challenging Napoli for the title. I am glad to see Roma performing well as I think there are mutual benefits for ourselves and Roma in both clubs performing well.
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £70m
st.domingo
Player Valuation: £15m
Buongiorno @AS Roma_fan - I wonder, are there any [fringe] players at Roma that you think could be potentially candidates to be headed over here?
Nice to see our parent club doing well.
Digging under the dock to float the stadium on mega pontoons then towing to the Med wouldn't be as hard as the overland part to Rome.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £80m
Venice could be a goer.
AS Roma_fan
Player Valuation: £750k
I don't know, but it's likely.
Roma has an outstanding youth sector, so every year you get some young players that can help. This year I think we won all the national championships from sub-11 to sub-20. It's by far the best academy in Italy, with strong links to many small development teams all over the country and beyond. Only Inter and Atalanta come close. But recently we've been hit by mismanagement, and the Friedkins have made mistakes in this field.
1) We don't have a B team yet, while Atalanta B and Juventus B could be promoted to Serie B at the end of this season. Everybody thought Roma would be the first club to set up a B side when federal rules were changed in 2018, but it didn't happen. So we have this unreasonable missing link btw the academy and the first team. It's a terrible waste, because we produce so many new prospects each year and we have to loan them, losing the chance to speed up and steer their development. Ranieri has made it clear to the Friedkins that a B team is crucial. I hope they'll listen to him.
2) Lately, we've let some of the best young players go! Calafiori is the no. 1 example. We sold him for peanuts to Basel, 2 years later he's a key player at Arsenal. Un inconceivable mistake. Would this have happened within the current framework? Maybe he would be at Everton now, with cash in our bank, or he would be with us after a good season in the right hands.
Few people know that we were about to sell Totti to Sampdoria in 1995, because he wasn't deemed ready for the first team.
I hope this situation will bring mutual benefits to Everton and Roma, not only economically speaking.
Blue83
Player Valuation: £30m
Maybe not so much second half
AS Roma_fan
Player Valuation: £750k
Crazy game. Speaking of young players given away...Maybe not so much second half
This is Frattesi, the match winner for Inter tonight, AS Roma academy graduate. We've blown away so many talents in the last 5 years you wouldn't believe.
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