Devyne Rensch

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The AS Roma Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AS Roma silence Napoli

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑1, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

AS Roma cannot stop winning

8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Matías Soulé settles the derby

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them, with his name on it, and it is a year of bragging rights for AS Roma and a story that will outlast his contract.

Market

Matías Soulé 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.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Roma

Gianluca Mancini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for AS Roma. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Nahuel Molina stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nahuel Molina and AS Roma agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Matías Soulé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

The month belongs to Paulo Dybala

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. AS Roma have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

In brief

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4 Edition

The AS Roma Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

AS Roma sell Manu Koné for $64.1M

Manu Koné has left for Atlético Madrid in a $64.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match

Paulo Dybala leads the rout of Frosinone

5‑2, and Paulo Dybala took the headlines on an afternoon when everything AS Roma tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Mile Svilar moves on

Inter pay $46.2M, 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

Valencia 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

Paulo Dybala takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Devyne Rensch says no to Vicenza

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Devyne Rensch had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

AS Roma rebuffed over Federico Baschirotto

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

Transfer targets

Too dear: AS Roma walk away from Jacobo Ramón

$5.2M was the most the club would pay and Como were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

The terraces

AS Roma sell a favourite for $64.1M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Manu Koné was one of the reasons people came, and $64.1M does not replace that by itself.

In brief

3 Edition

The AS Roma Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

AS Roma rebuffed over Ricardo Pepi

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

Market

Niccolò Pisilli turns Lazio down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

AS Roma baulk at the price for Giorgio Scalvini

Atalanta 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.

Squad

A move Nicolás Azambuja 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. Nicolás Azambuja is living that version at AS Roma, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

The Manu Koné conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Atlético Madrid will make the call about Manu Koné this week. AS Roma have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Roma

Gianluca Mancini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Devyne Rensch and the phone call AS Roma dreaded

Interest from Lazio is the one kind AS Roma cannot discuss calmly. The player has said nothing; the supporters have said everything, most of it unprintable.

Market

A long bet from AS Roma on Nicolás Azambuja

He is 18, and nobody at AS Roma signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Nicolás Azambuja is a square peg at AS Roma

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief