Ugo Trani spoke live at I’ll give you Tokyothe program created and hosted by Mario Corsibroadcast every day from 10am to 2pm on 92.7 Tele Radio Stereo.
“The Gazzetta’s attack on Souloukou is clearly political, it is not sporting, because it concerns issues regarding the League, in which Roma tried to take a minimum of different steps, such as protesting for the calendar, even before the latest events, because Roma have often complained about never playing on Monday even though they play on Thursday, which is at least strange given that Atalanta played on Monday. On the famous story of the letter, the story of Sensi comes to mind, with Moratti who sent it forward and then hid, the same thing happened here. Even if we want to blame Rome, which is always covered and aligned on a communication level, without ever speaking, which reported on this letter, bringing it out with the Roman newspapers, then it happened that Inter, who I remember have the president who cannot return to celebrate in Italy for the reasons that we at Te la do io Tokyo know, were afraid that there would be too much media exposure on this no-confidence in the League of 4 big names, including Roma, were immediately worried and called the newspapers to say that it was not a letter of no confidence. But how, first you throw the stone and then hide your hand? And they sent Roma forward, which now becomes a target, as you saw in today’s piece, because this is what Inter wants to be protected and covered, given the situation it has, with debts even higher than Roma. Let’s remember that we talk about Roma, but Juventus are poisoned because the treatment reserved for Inter is different, a bit like for Calciopoli, given that Juventus was penalized for an administrative offense last year. That’s all a political battle and Rome is involved because it has no strength. Those small steps he took were made with Souloukou, which in fact is attacked. She is the only point of reference that the team and De Rossi have. She went with De Rossi to do a transfer negotiation, because if there are no other characters, she has to do it, but it’s not that she thinks she knows more than the others, in fact she brought the coach with her, hoping that at least he would follow. If United thought Ghisolfi was good, they would take him. The problem is that even the prosecutors who work with those in Trigoria understand that if you take him there is an air of downsizing. To sign a strong player you don’t need Ghisolfi or Souloukou, you need Friedkin’s money, otherwise you won’t get him. If you want to try to get some talent or prospects, then you have to have Sartori. So you don’t have anyone making the investment, because it doesn’t seem to me that the Friedkins want to invest much and they made it clear to us in every way, nor do you have Sartori, so where are you going? What team are you on? In my opinion you will never fight for the Scudetto next year, they don’t make a team for the Scudetto, I can say that 150%. There are two paths: one with the Champions League and one without the Champions League. If you go to the Champions League you have more hope of having a team that annoys the top teams, in the sense that you can become third, second or fourth. If you don’t go to the Champions League, how do they prepare you for next season? Saying ‘we absolutely have to return to the Champions League’, because they say it every year and they would say it again next year. I don’t see any other roads. Also because, even in the best case scenario with the Champions League money, we know very well to create a Scudetto team, Napoli had the team but not only that. After winning the Scudetto, they still had a much stronger team than Roma but then having seen the end they ended up with, because a strong team is not enough, because many things have to coincide, it’s not enough to just have good players. Roma don’t have good players, so first they should have players, good in terms of level, in all sectors, changes in midfield, on the flanks. Roma don’t have it, how many good ones do they have to get to be competitive for the Scudetto? Even 6-7 are not enough. We would need 10 and do you think they will take 10 top players? I don’t believe it, I don’t know how many will arrive. The first one they buy won’t suit me, I’m already saying it now, the first one they get won’t suit me. Surely De Rossi can have appeal for players like Chiesa, the problem is always money. I hear many fake friends of De Rossi, those who pass themselves off as his friends, say that he wants Kristensen’s confirmation. So you who feel like a friend of De Rossi make him look bad, but then Kristensen’s confirmation must be the third change on the right because he has physique and running, but not the confirmation, because you don’t start from Kristensen’s confirmation. So why do I say that De Rossi is the key, because someone has to tell him ‘we can spend this amount, we can get five important players, we can get 3 + 6 young players, they have to tell him, because knowing De Rossi, he’s someone who cares more than any other person to make a good impression and above all does not want to be made fun of. So when he goes to talk to these people that De Rossi is capable of telling him ‘we shook hands, I’m going to coach Bologna, he can do it. In public he compliments the squad, but then he shows up in the studio. When he showed up to make the contracts, he always asked for 6 million net, it’s not like he stood there and said ‘well, give it to me next year’, so De Rossi is that. And in fact I say: is a handshake enough?”
