“Nothing is worth more than a handshake.” The sentence in the post Roma-Milan explains who Daniele De Rossi is and what his feelings are for Roma. With excellent timing, on Thursday morning, the Friedkin family expressed their willingness to continue working with De Rossi. Before the match and not after. The contract is not yet black and white. Duration three years or two years with an option for a third; fixed economic part and with performance bonus; involvement of De Rossi in the choices (such as training camp and pre-season) to match the needs of the AS Roma brand and those of the AS Roma football team. De Rossi is no longer the former coach sacked by Spal who had signed a blank contract as a ferryman. He will have a treatment suited to what he has demonstrated in these three months which, broadly speaking, can be summed up in three points.
The squad reevaluated
Starting with the goalkeeper – Svilar in place of Rui Patricio – De Rossi has added added value to the club’s accounts. In place of an elderly goalkeeper whose contract is expiring, a young player with great prospects plays, having arrived at zero parameter and with a sustainable salary (one million). Svilar’s performance was much superior to that of Rui Patricio. Roma can now choose: keep him and make him a fixed point or sell him to the Premier League and collect a capital gain of at least 30/35 million. Mancini set his absolute career scoring record with 7 goals (4 in the league and 3 in the Europa League): he scores as if he were an attacker. Pilgrims And Paredes they are reborn. El Shaarawy it was the decisive move in the two matches against Milan also playing in an unusual position for him. Dybala he doubled the average minutes/goals compared to Mourinho’s management. He saw himself on the pitch again, even if for a few minutes Renato Sancheswho was bullied by Mou in Bologna-Roma 2-0.
Behavior and respect
Mou’s Roma was the team that no referee wanted to manage: too many protests and the record number of red cards (28 in two and a half seasons) for the Portuguese and his staff. De Rossi was never a boy scout, but he made even the most fiery players (Mancini and Paredes) understand the difference between “make yourself heard” and get thrown out. On Thursday evening the team reacted in the right way to Celik’s expulsion in the 31st minute – severe but fair – and in the end they didn’t get involved Theo Hernandez in a brawl that could only cause damage to Roma, given that it was the team that continued the competition and not the one eliminated. De Rossi respects everyone but asks for respect. He was angry with the media who had misreported his words about Pioli: «I never said that he was on his last resort. I have great respect for him and the two matches against Milan were very difficult for us.”
The game
De Rossi says he has learned something from all his coachesbut carries three in his heart for footballing and group management reasons: Lippi, Luis Enrique And Spalletti. He asked the Spaniard for explanations for every tactical exercise the team did in training: basically a free “internship”. Lucho spoke in Trigoria about «associative play» and on Thursday evening it seemed like we could hear the Spaniard speaking again inside the DDR body: «I ask my players, when we are in possession of the ball, to always attack the space». De Rossi loves offensive football but he knows what it means to defend himself.
