Fabio Lima

Attacking Midfielder (R) - AS Roma
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Fabio Lima

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The AS Roma Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Manu Koné moves on

Bayer Leverkusen pay $69.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

AS Roma sell Evan N'Dicka for $44.1M

Evan N'Dicka has left for West Ham United in a $44.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match

AS Roma leave it late against Frosinone

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Frosinone spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Transfer targets

AS Roma baulk at the price for Weston McKennie

Juventus wanted more than $5.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $69.8M sale of Manu Koné

He is going to Bayer Leverkusen, the club has $69.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Fabio Gerli

AS Roma asked and Modena said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Arsenal join the queue for Mile Svilar

Add another name to the list: Arsenal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mile Svilar. The answer from AS Roma has not changed — yet.

Boardroom

AS Roma go back to the board over Boubacar Kamara

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $108.9M — a club that wants Boubacar Kamara enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at AS Roma

Gianluca Mancini and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief

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The AS Roma Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $13.5M for Samu Aghehowa

AS Roma have gone to Porto with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

RB Leipzig come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AS Roma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

AS Roma bid $6.9M for Ignacio Perruzzi

The offer went to San Lorenzo this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A move Fabio Lima would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fabio Lima is living that version at AS Roma, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Manu Koné raises the bar for AS Roma

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at AS Roma heard it as anything else.

Market

Paulo Dybala wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Paulo Dybala signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulo Dybala commits to AS Roma for another 3 years.

Squad

Manu Koné in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS Roma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

9 new faces, and AS Roma are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief