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Pallotta: EDF’s Position “has always been safe”
Pallotta: EDF’s Position “has always been safe”
Roma and ultimatums go hand in hand, don’t they? There’s just something about this club, if it’s not operating in extremes, it just feels wrong. It’s terrible for the well being of the club, to say nothing of those of us along for the ride, but there is no ambivalence when it comes to AS […]
Much Ado About Alessandro Florenzi
Much Ado About Alessandro Florenzi
Alessandro Florenzi[1] is reported to have finally agreed a base salary of 2.8 million euros over five years, plus bonuses on top. It’s (maybe) the last contract he’ll be signing in his twenties, as he’ll be 32 years old by the time it expires. By then will he be wearing the captain’s armband? Will he […]
10 Years of Stephan El Shaarawy: ‘I’m Not A Kid Anymore’
10 Years of Stephan El Shaarawy: ‘I’m Not A Kid Anymore’
Tuesday morning saw Stephan El Shaarawy give a generously lengthy interview with Roma TV. So far in pre-season, SES has looked like a million dollars in almost every way: relaxed, nice touches to trap long-range passes from team-mates, and the usual impressive kick-ups that led Alisson to nominate SES as the most talented footballer in […]
Di Francesco Talks Tactical Changes After Torino Match
Di Francesco Talks Tactical Changes After Torino Match
Although he’s only been at the helm for roughly 3⁄4 of a season, my relationship with Eusebio Di Francesco[1] has been quite tumultuous. Due to my undying affection for Luciano Spalletti, Roma could have hired Buddha himself as a successor and I still would have been fit to be tied. EDF seemed too rigid, too […]
Mehdi Benatia on Roma: “Losers always need an excuse”
Mehdi Benatia on Roma: “Losers always need an excuse”
Mehdi Benatia occupies a strange space in recent Roma history. By most accounts, Benatia played the best football of his life during his lone season in Roma colors, and what seemed like a marriage destined for greatness sooned decayed into an extremely hostile and bitter divorce. With a battle for a new contract playing in […]
Pallotta Speaks at Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Pallotta Speaks at Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
In what has become a yearly tradition like Spring Training, James Pallotta was a part of last weekend’s Sloan Sports Analytics conference, and as he has done in previous years, he opened up his mouth and talked. A lot. So I’ll shut up because this is gonna be a long one. (But one final thing! […]
Roma Stands to Reap an Additional €11M From New Serie A TV Deal
Roma Stands to Reap an Additional €11M From New Serie…
Back in my younger, more naive days, when I first discovered Serie A, life was easy. I didn’t have to worry about property assessments, whether or not I should buy organic eggs or how well my retirement account was doing. I just woke up, flipped on Fox Soccer Channel, and bam, there was live Serie […]
The Roma ‘Club’ Experience: Three Matches, Three Cities, Three Different Fan Clubs
The Roma ‘Club’ Experience: Three Matches, Three Cities,…
You can’t beat being there. There is nothing quite like the bellow of the Olimpico as the crowd roars “Tottiiii” or the last chorus of Venditti’s ‘Roma Roma’. And don’t forget the ritual groping from the local police as you make your way through those two layers of bizarre turnstile security gates. But the fact […]
Kostas Manolas Signs New Deal Through 2022
Kostas Manolas Signs New Deal Through 2022
Credit Roma with this much: despite their continual frustrations on the transfer market over the years (think Mahrez, Podolski, Mutu etc.), when they set their mind to keeping one of their own, they’re generally pretty successful at hashing out new deals for their star players. Over the past couple of seasons we’ve seen the club […]
A Tale of Two Teams
A Tale of Two Teams
I’m typically not the most positive person here at CdT. I prefer to be realistic, sometimes bordering on negative, but things are slowly starting to change. After a slight break away from this place to escape the negativity/deal with the real world for a bit, I’m back, with beautiful performances from Roma and the other […]