3.30pm
De Rossi on the Champions League
“I’ll see it tomorrow for sure (laughs, ed.). The last match of the championship is always a farewell match for someone. We have many loans and players expiring, if I were to see only that the lineup would already be done. Maybe even those who don’t have will leave. the contract expires and whoever is on loan can stay. I see myself forming a team that can help me win the match better for Empoli, but we want to play a serious match also to keep Lazio away, to confirm this trend. that is having this championship. Just look at Genoa who have given us a hard time and that’s right. Honestly, it’s difficult for Atalanta not to score points to finish fourth year, without waiting for favors. I understood for a while that we didn’t finish fifth and the defeat of Bologna doesn’t help us. In the event of the Europa League we will be found worthy, there are positive aspects, it’s the competition that made me dream as a child , the Champions League was rich people’s stuff. The best evenings as a Roma fan are linked to the Europa League, there are also positive aspects.”
3.26pm
De Rossi on the Roma transfer market
“The parts to be strengthened? It’s early, the transfer market sometimes brings out positive or negative opportunities that you have to deal with. We still know few things about what we want to do in the next market.”
3.22pm
De Rossi on Tirana and Kumbulla
“It’s been two years since we won the cup in Tirana. A friend of ours had a bad accident that evening so we didn’t enjoy the evening as much, every year now we wish him well. What if Kumbulla comes back? We’ll evaluate what’s best for him and us. I don’t know him but the players spoke to me very well about him.”
3.20pm
De Rossi: “Spinazzola skips Empoli”
“Spinazzola is not coming to Empoli, Baldanzi has been very available this week, then I will make my assessments”.
3.19pm
De Rossi and the last match of the championship
“No one asked me for preferential treatment for the last match, everyone trained hard. We pushed harder than usual, they got angry and asked me if there were playoffs. Everyone is available to play, then I estimate that some would have Atalanta have needed rest for a month? There’s no better team to hurt Bayer Leverkusen. We tried to let them have the ball for a long time , I knew he would bring home the trophy.”
3.16pm
De Rossi on Atalanta
“Playing a final is different from playing a double challenge with a team that on paper is better than you. Atalanta? The better the coach, the better the players, they have reached this stage of the season in crescendo. For Roma it was a troubled season, we have met very strong teams. They are built to hold their own against all opponents. They have been playing together for many years, with the same coach: they know each other better and have found themselves in this situation more often. It will be a great challenge to replicate what they did.”
3.13pm
De Rossi on the summer retreat
“When you create a staff and you are a novice coach you complete it with people who are more experienced than you. My trainer has created around thirty and I will rely on him. I have never managed but I know which pre-seasons went well and which did not, we are directing our priorities also based on my memories as a footballer.”
3.11pm
The balance of Roma’s last 6 months
“It’s been less than 6 months, they taught me and gave me a lot. They reminded me of things I knew: difficulties and criticisms come, I knew it and I was ready when we no longer won all the games. They gave me some confirmation about myself and on what needs to be improved. We are in the right place and for now we are up to par. Then football is complicated: next season will be important for us and for creating something lasting.”
3.10pm
De Rossi on Ghisolfi and Dybala
“Roma made a statement, we spoke to each other. The first impressions are good, but we have a lot of time to talk about the market, about what it will be. I know you’re interested, but I have to force you to think about tomorrow’s match. Paulo has trained continuously, he is well and can play.”
3pm
Ghisolfi already at work in Rome
The day has arrived, now we begin. Roma’s new project is ready to take shape with the De Rossi-Ghisolfi duo, now together with Fulvio Bernardini and fully operational to lay the foundations of their three-year period together in the Giallorossi. The French manager, new head of the club’s technical area, landed in the capital on Thursday to begin his first adventure in Italy, in the club that identified him and took him from Nice to start a new strategic market model aimed at strengthening the team but with a more sustainable plan. No loans from over 30s, younger talented players but also quality already demonstrated on the pitch, and then potentially usable as assets in the market. Everything is ready to prepare for the new season. Everything, except the placement in Europe which still dances between the Europa League – mathematically achieved – and the Champions League which will only arrive if Atalanta ends the championship in fifth place: EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CHAMPIONS RACE
2.45pm
Probable Empoli-Roma lineup
Rui Patricio returns to the starting line-up for Empoli, Dybala from the first minute: the Giallorossi referees in the battle for survival, waiting for Atalanta to compete in the Champions League THE PROBABLE LINE-UP
2.30pm
Roma Club Gerusalemme at the Friendship Tournament
The young people of the Roma Club Jerusalem protagonists of the Friendship Tournament: read all about the beautiful initiative at the capital’s logistics center HERE
2.15pm
Bellanova for De Rossi’s Roma
Raoul Bellanova exactly reflects the club’s new investment strategy: a market to strengthen the squad but also sustainable. Read HERE what Torino is asking for and Roma’s strategy
2pm
Rome, De Rossi’s press conference
De Rossi is about to speak in the last pre-match press conference of this season. From Ghisolfi’s arrival, to the new names on the transfer market and next season’s strategies, follow all his words live.
