Emanuele Modugno

Striker - AS Roma
19 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Emanuele Modugno

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The AS Roma Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 terraces

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

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The AS Roma Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

AS Roma rebuffed over Charles De Ketelaere

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atalanta have kept their man, and AS Roma go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

AS Roma say no — this time

The offer from Real Sociedad for Manu Koné 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.

Squad

Assane Diao arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Assane Diao has, at AS Roma, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

AS Roma sign Assane Diao, one for the future

Assane Diao is 20, and AS Roma have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Tempers go at AS Roma

Matías Soulé was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

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.

Squad

Emanuele Modugno signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emanuele Modugno and AS Roma agree another 3 years.

Market

It had to be Napoli, of all clubs

There is interest, it is real, and it comes from the one direction that makes it a story rather than a transfer. AS Roma supporters have already said what they think.

The dugout

Emanuele Modugno asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief