The current season is still nine rounds short of finishing, and apart from Inter‘s all but secured title, everything else is unknown. And that also means that the fourth and last place for the Champions League is wide open between Bologna, Roma, Atalanta and Napoli. Thiago Motta‘s team is the biggest (and most pleasant) surprise in this year‘s Serie A, but renewed Roma under new coach Daniele De Rossi is just three points away and will eventually host Bologna in the nine remaining games. And while the team is preparing for the remaining matches in both Italy and Europe, the management is already doing their math for the upcoming transfer window, and under their calculations, the Giallorossi will be able to save up to 50 million euros just on wages. Totti created confusion in Rome after Dybala commentsLa Gazzetta dello Sport reports that this calculation is based mainly on the player who are on a loan and on the ones whose contracts won‘t be renewed. Roma was very cunny and flexible in the few recent transfer windows, and made some shrew moves for free agents and loaned player, avoiding big costs due to their bad financial situation, left from the previous ownership. But, not all off them were excellent, due to various circumstances which are in the spanning from bad form to injuires, and those footballers will be the first one to go. Rasmus Kristensen (Leeds), Renato Sanches (PSG) and Dean Huijsen (Juventus) will be returned to their parent clubs an out of all three, only the Spanish defender showed some good performances, but he is too expensive for Roma and Juve will likely use him as a ‘bait‘ to get Teun Koopmeiners from Atalanta. It’s never dull with Mou: “It’s difficult to understand why I was sacked by Roma”Then there are keepers Rui Patricio, a number 1 keeper until De Rossi arrived and Pietro Boer, who will not be offered new contracts since the club will promote young Mile Svilar, who is already in the starting lineup. With an annual gross salary of 13.8 million euros, Romelu Lukaku is out of reach for Giallorossi and will come back to Chelsea, how are looking at around 43 million euros for the striker, which is way too much for the Italians. Future of Azmoun (Bayer Leverkusen), Angeliño (RB Leipzig) and Diego Llorente (Leeds United) are still up in the air. Some of them will surely leave and some will be signed as permanent Roma player. Leonardo Spinazzola’s contract expires in June and his agent said back in January that his client would not extend his contract beyond June. Mourinho immediately benched Spinazzola, but the turned out to be a regular under De Rossi, so the coach may ask the club to change his mind and offer him a new deal. If all these players live Rome in June, the management will save around 50 million euros just for their wages. A considerable sum even for bigger and wealthier clubs, yet alone Roma. ##NAJAVA_MECA_7984404##
