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AS Roma CRISIS: Should The Friedkin Family Sell The Giallorossi? (Ep. 466)
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After getting hammered 5-1 by Fiorentina in the Serie A, Roma are sinking without a trace which leads Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese do discuss, analyze and pose the question whether or not the Friedkin family should simply sell the Giallorossi.
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00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast. I'll tell you who is at risk of the sack is Ivan Urich. We're recording this on on Monday morning. So by the time some of you guys listen to this, there is every possibility that Ivan Urich could have actually been sacked because Monday is going to be a very key day for discussing his his future because Roma get thrashed 5-1 by Fiorentina at the Frankie. it was a total mess of performance. listen to this xg that you're once had in this game three point eight
00:00:34
Speaker
x i mean It's a team that that looks so broken, so clueless. Tactically, there was just no fight. and as I think it looked like a team that wasn't playing for their manager. and and and and the manager that maybe has lost the dressing room and and that was proven with the half-time substitutions that he made where he took off Christante, Angelino and Mancini. I'm not sure about Angelino but Christante and Mancini didn't reappear for the second half on the bench. They didn't sit on the bench for the second half. It appears to me that he's he's he's lost
00:01:13
Speaker
he doesn't have the dressing room with him, which is kind of surprising because it's actually one thing that I thought I would have associated with Yurich. But yeah, it' ah it was a total mess of a performance. They were so open, which again, you don't associate with a Yurich team. Yurich teams are usually quite good defensively. And it just had the look of the end for Yurich, just the look and the feel of this game, the look of the players on like Di Barla, look at the way that he was looking on the bench when he was taken off.
00:01:41
Speaker
Zurich look like a pretty look like a broken man. I mean I should never have been appointed this this this is not a Yurich Ivan Yurich team and and I I like even Yurich, but I want even Yurich to take a job Where he would have a full preseason a proper Mercata where he could impose his football This is this was stupid and now this talk of calling de Rossi and bringing him back It's like the Friedkins. I'm sorry, but they're completely clueless. They don't know what they're doing. I Well, that let me ask you the question. Let me ask you the question then. Should the Friedkin's now, they're under obviously in incredible pressure from the fans.
00:02:20
Speaker
should the freakin' sell Romanelle? Should they sell Romanelle? I mean, look at, just look at what, I mean, this summer has been, it's been a horror show from from start to finish. I mean, you know, De Rossi was sacked a few games into the season in in a sacking that was handled so, so badly. And the CEO, the the former CEO, Lina Sulukwu, that woman, as you call her, was resigned of,
00:02:45
Speaker
pretty much straight after because of the abuse. And and we should say, which we won't condemn, the threats that that she got from from the Roma fans. But also, if you just look at the way of the whole upper management, not just the CEO, but the sporting director, Florent Gisolfi, who came in very, very highly rated from France, by the way. I've known about this guy for a couple of years. and how highly rated it he is. And I don't want to write him off after one summer because I think he he's coming to a very, very difficult situation. He was actually wanted by Manchester United as well. um I mean, he's overseen really a shocking summer market. um I don't want to put it all on him because there's obviously other people that are involved. but
00:03:23
Speaker
it As I've discussed as i've i've said for for since the start, it was a terrible market. the The way that they constructed the team and the squad signing. Some players that can play in some systems, some that can play in another system. no Bring it in Matias Sule as your marquee signing and you can't play with Paolo Di Bala.
00:03:43
Speaker
And then you play you play ah a system that doesn't have wingers and you bring in a manager that you're rich for the Rossi who's he doesn't play wingers and And then you know to make matters worse, you know, they then you bring in free transfers like who knows who hasn't even played and comes on against Fiorentino. That sums up everything. He comes on for his debut um after Pemosa got sent off and you're already getting hammered for one. And Hamels then scores a bizarre own goal on his debut four minutes into his debut. I mean, you've got that. So the transfer market's been a horror show. And then the Friedkins themselves going by Everton in in the the Premier League. So you're now, you know, you're not fully focused on Roma
00:04:27
Speaker
your 10th place in Serie A, you have two wins in nine games in Serie A on the pitch, off the pitch. is so is the fans are You've lost the fans. I mean,
00:04:39
Speaker
what something what what happens now? and might do do that Should the freakin' sell the club? If they can't focus and create a structure in place, then yes, because it's a waste of everyone's time.
00:04:55
Speaker
Roma deserve better than this, than this circus, than this complete and utter telenovela that Roma have become now under the frequency. I don't I don't think that, I've no doubt that this is not what they wanted. I've no doubt that this is not what they had planned or envis envisaged for for themselves this season. But it's like this keeps happening. Had it not been for Mourinho or Derossi, this would have happened already a couple of seasons ago.
00:05:31
Speaker
And that's what I don't like. It's the fact that they don't see so they can't seem to get the managerial roles appointed correctly so that they can start building something. Instead, it's like gaffer tape together structurally.
00:05:47
Speaker
on the side of the pitch and then they don't seem to have the patience and Rome, more importantly, Rome is a difficult place. You're always under pressure. You're always under criticism. It's a very heated piazza. It's a very hot piazza. It's like Naples, Rome. These places are very, very special places. So you're going to have to be able to handle that.
00:06:13
Speaker
And they seem to be very reactive. And they don't seem to understand that you can't do certain things. You can't just throw De Rossi and Mourinho out to the trash like that, that reactively. And I don't know how how much truth there is to them calling De Rossi back. I mean, that would be the, you know, he loves the club.
00:06:35
Speaker
And if it's possible to to to recover that relationship, they probably should do that. Now I'm seeing links to Mancini and Sarri. Again, let's say they appoint Mancini or Sarri.
00:06:48
Speaker
What do Mancini, Sarri, De Rossi, and Yurich and Mourinho have in common? those are that those That'll be the four last coaches of Roma. There's nothing. It's just throwing shit at a wall and hoping something sticks. yeah Off the pitch, I think they are they've done some really good things. I think they've done a fantastic job. They've invested a lot. But they don't understand football, and that's fine. An owner doesn't need to understand football. But the owner needs to appoint someone who does.
00:07:15
Speaker
You know, Suning did not understand football. They first appointed Sabatini. That didn't work out. They appointed Marotta. Yeah. The best club, the best club. And that to me is good ownership. Good ownership does exactly that. You give, you point the right person in the right place.
00:07:34
Speaker
Yeah, the best run clubs are always the clubs where everything is aligned. um ah Obviously, and a coach, a manager is very, very important. It's right to be important. um But a well-run club is a club that isn't isn't completely reliant on their manager that that can work well and has a system and a structure where the manager, when he leaves, someone else, if you appoint the right manager, can come in and and you know for example with the transfer market you're buying players not necessarily for for for a certain manager or certain you know it's it like atalanta do you know they they they have a structure that's so well oiled that yes okay gasparini is hugely important but if they buy they bring in a coach who who is similar to gasparini well you know they they have a certain way of of doing things whereas with
00:08:29
Speaker
With Rover, like you said, they jump around from one type of manager to another type of manager, to to a manager that plays attacking, to a manager that plays defensive, to a manager that plays the wingers, to a manager that doesn't play with wingers. And then when they're buying players, they're buying players that don't suit one or or one side of a system or the other. There's no actual structure. It's not streamlined to work in a certain way, which is why it's been why it's so chaotic. And then when you bring in Yurich,
00:08:52
Speaker
you bring them bring it in a manager who doesn't even fit those players that you've got anyway and it's and it's just you know what I mean it's just a complete it's just a complete mess there's there's there doesn't seem to be any system in place
00:09:06
Speaker
No, i on the football side of things that as i should I should say, on the football side there doesn't seem to be and any kind of proper strategy. No, on the pitch. Off the pitch they've done a really good job, they've done all the right moves, but the problem is on the pitch they they they haven't been able to find a sporting director or a sporting... so they don't trust whoever it is, they don't trust that person.
00:09:26
Speaker
and they bring on to let them handle it, even when things get tough. um and and and and and And that's the problem here. they they They seem to like shoot from the hip. And now you've got the Everton thing as well, which will piss the Roma fans off even more. And they're already angry. um So now there's complete confusion. and and and And that's never good. That's never a good good place to be. and And I think that it's, for me, it's almost inevitable now that Yurich leaves.
00:09:56
Speaker
It wouldn't surprise me if Yurij resigned himself because this is just such a shitshow with who they bring in. I don't think it matters because the problems are still going to be there. And they need to this season, it feels like it's already kind of it's over for Rama. It's literally just damage control. Yeah. And we're all and we're just in A squad has been constructed so badly that I don't see whoever you bring in can possibly put together a working system that all players are suitable. If you play one system, you're going to have to leave out one or two of your stars. To be honest with you, the only person... If you play a winger system, Di Barla can't play. If you play a system without wingers, then Zulei can't play. So, you know, you're already screwed there. You have a lack of pace in the team. I mean, how we go back to the Fiorentina game,
00:10:48
Speaker
How on earth, after everything that happened, we're going back to, a what, two two players behind playing behind a one, behind the behind the one system, when it when it was quite clear early on in the season that that wasn't working for De Rossi. And we're going back to, what, Di Barla and Pellegrini with zero pace, behind Dov Bic with zero pace, when it was clear early on in the season.
00:11:07
Speaker
that Roma were struggling so badly was was the reason why. It was because they were playing players that had no pace and there was no speed and and everything was central and there was no width. No width, no speed was the reason why Roma had such a disastrous start to the season.
00:11:23
Speaker
and and And what? We've gone back to that now? I mean, that's also also on Yurich, but... Yeah, but Yurich plays 3-4-2-1. This is again, it's a stupid appointment. You don't appoint Ivan Yurich and don't play 3-4-2-1. That's how he plays his football. Again, I don't blame Yurich for being Yurich. I blame...
00:11:41
Speaker
the Friedkins for sacking Darossi, not giving him what he wanted in the summer, and then appointing Yurich, which has no doesn't work with the squad at all. like it's its Again, it goes back to the you know the fish rots from the head down, Chinese progress. Even defensively. i mean You expect Yurich seems to at least be good defensively. in there Yeah, you do. Can I just say this? cello Oh my God. What this guy must be the worst performer defender in Serie A right now. I mean, he's he's given away, I want to say goal again. How many goals did he give away in this game? I mean, the penalty, the goal he gave away was against Inter was Chambolic, the missed control. And then the penalty, and I mean,
00:12:18
Speaker
number The number of shambolic penalties conceded this weekend, I mean, i mean unbelievable. Chelic was right up there. That was that was also ah Sunday league pub defending at Bedford Park. I mean, that was was drunk defending. and Yeah, i it's it's really bad. It's really bad for Roma.