Roma wasn’t exactly fully prepared for the start of the transfer window, as complications with Financial Fair Play regulations made it unclear how much the Giallorossi would be able to invest in the football market. However, positive signals are now arriving for the impatient supporters of the club from the Eternal City. According to Gazzetta dello Sport, the American Friedkin family has secured 100 million euros for new signings, and the club is only facing a financial fine for FFP violations—no serious sanctions. That’s not a small amount of money and is close to last year’s figure (112 million) spent on June reinforcements. The issue, however, is that coach Gian Piero Gasperini will need to acquire four or five starting-caliber players for the new season with that budget. The new sporting director, Ricky Massara, will face serious challenges, and in the coming days, he will meet with Gasperini and Claudio Ranieri to lay out a clear strategy for the transfer market.BOOM! With an estimated €100m budget, Roma are moving decisively to arm Gasperini’s squad:1. Matt O’Riley – Negotiations are active with Brighton for the Denmark international. Roma view him as a modern mezzala tailor-made for Gasperini. Brighton want €30m, and Roma are… pic.twitter.com/wpO8hapY9E— Jose Higuera Sellitri (@JoseFootballNe1) July 2, 2025 Since his arrival in Rome, Gasperini has said that the team has a solid foundation, but it needs to be built upon. Gazzetta reports he will be looking for four or five players who can immediately raise the team’s quality, so it remains to be seen whether the allocated budget will be enough for that. Roma doesn’t want to repeat last year’s mistakes, when most of the new arrivals joined at the end of August. Back then, Daniele De Rossi’s squad entered the season unprepared and strung together a series of poor results, which ultimately cost them a place in the Champions League—despite Claudio Ranieri’s phenomenal five-month run at the end of the campaign.Financial buzzer-beater to save AS Roma: Tammy Abraham is black and whiteThe Giallorossi are targeting one center-back, two full-backs, a midfielder, and a forward. The first signing is expected to be Cagliari’s right-back Nadir Zortea, whom Gasperini previously worked with at Atalanta but didn’t give a real chance to. He now wants to correct that, and Roma will pay a five million euros fee. The capital club has already identified a center-back from Bologna: the excellent Colombian Jhon Lucumí, who has made 109 appearances for the club at the Renato Dall’Ara and was a regular starter, just as he had been at Genk. The strong 26-year-old from Cali has a 28 million release clause that expires on July 10. Bologna is unwilling to negotiate below that amount, so we’ll see whether Roma waits or acts before the deadline.##NAJAVA_MECA_9000760##On the left flank, everything depends on Angelino’s future. If the Spaniard leaves, the front-runner to replace him is Maxim De Cuyper from Club Brugge, also being monitored by Milan. His price is around 20 million, while an alternative is Villarreal’s Sergi Cardona, valued at 15 million. Leandro Paredes is nearing a return to Argentina to sign with Boca Juniors, so Roma is actively working on a replacement. The top candidate is Matt O’Riley from Brighton, with Kenneth Taylor from Ajax as a secondary option. Both are similar player profiles and carry a price tag of around 25 million. Finally, the club is also looking at three strikers, one of whom is Nikola Krstović from Lecce. The other two are Armand Lauriente from Sassuolo and Georges Mikautadze from Lyon.
