Marked for Niccolò Pisilli
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lorenzo Venturino is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Santiago Castro falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten AS Roma
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Paulo Dybala. 1‑0 against Atalanta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.82 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AS Roma had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 5.77, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 59. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matías Soulé 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for AS Roma, 1‑0 the final word against Juventus in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mario Hermoso falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.77. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Francesco Panico
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Roma lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Bryan Cristante pops up at the right end — 7.62
7.62, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Luis Malagón 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. Luis Malagón is living that version at AS Roma, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market24 Aug 2026
AS Roma say no — this time
The offer from Barcelona for Niccolò Pisilli was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matías Soulé 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Wesley signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wesley and AS Roma agree another 5 years.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at AS Roma
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Aug 2026
A squad is not eleven players and a wish. Luis Malagón arrives from Club America to make the number up properly, and the value of that will be argued about in March rather than today.