The AS Roma Chronicle
Market23 Oct 2028
Pedro 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.
Match21 Oct 2028
4 matches without a win for AS Roma
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AS Roma are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at AS Roma
Angeliño 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.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Rodrigo Mora knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rodrigo Mora trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match21 Oct 2028
AS Roma and Como take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Half-satisfied: David Vidal on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
The plan did not have a place for Rodrigo Mora
Nobody at AS Roma is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market23 Oct 2028
Nahuel Molina linked with a move away
The name of Nahuel Molina keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Roma say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Sandro Caputo
“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.
In brief
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- Squad Khvicha Kvaratskhelia says his piece
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Mao Hosoya’s exile