The AS Roma Chronicle
Market16 Aug 2027
Business is business: Santiago Castro goes
OGC Nice paid $83.5M and AS Roma took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dória breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market16 Aug 2027
Dória asks to leave AS Roma
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
A $83.5M sale, and a town that did not want it
Santiago Castro has gone, the accounts have $83.5M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market16 Aug 2027
Pierluigi Gollini moves on
Juventus pay $3.4M, 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Wesley
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market16 Aug 2027
Pineto 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at AS Roma
Donyell Malen 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A row about effort at AS Roma
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Paulo Dybala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Loan watch Niccolò Pisilli wants to come home
- The dugout Paulo Dybala gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Assane Diao knocks on the manager’s door