Cautiously Optimistic Since 2007
For a brief moment in mid-November, it seemed like Gian Piero Gasperini had finally cracked the code that had been holding back Roma’s attack. Admittedly, the Giallorossi weren’t taking the league by storm like Gasp’s Atalanta teams, but after netting nine goals in four matches, it looked like the club had turned a corner. But […]
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You know what they say about assumptions, right? Well, after Roma laid an egg in last weekend’s top-of-the-table clash against Napoli, today’s fixture against 15th-place Cagliari should have been a gimme for the Giallorossi. Even with some lingering injuries in attack, we felt safe labeling this as a “get-right” match for Roma, and, well, in […]
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While November was a success for Roma, the Giallorossi ended the month on a flat note, falling to Napoli 1-0 in a top-of-the-table clash. Granted, the Scudetto isn’t won in the fall, but with Gian Piero Gasperini’s group punching above their weight class, a victory over Napoli would have lent substantial credibility to Roma’s status […]
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“Angelino didn’t have a muscle or a joint problem. The tests were ok and he started training again yesterday. In the last few weeks he’s been training separately but training quite well. When the doctors give the all-clear for him to play, we’ll use him. “It hasn’t been an easy week because lots of players […]
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We’re about halfway through Gian Piero Gasperini’s first season in Rome, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about his press conferences, it’s that we usually get to discover who has two functioning lungs and who’s been quarantined somewhere deep under Trigoria. That was especially true today, as ahead of Roma’s trip to Cagliari, Gasperini’s […]
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With Evan Ferguson’s and Artem Dovbyk’s struggles during the first three months well-documented, it’s no surprise that rumors have circulated that Roma will look to add attacking reinforcements when the transfer window opens in January. And for most of the fall, the player most closely linked with Roma has been Dutch striker Joshua Zirkee of […]
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After spending the first two months of the season grinding out one-nil wins, Roma’s once-dormant attack showed signs of life in November. Before last weekend’s frustrating loss to Napoli, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was on a hot streak, scoring nine goals in their previous four matches. While they still weren’t getting much production from their […]
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With 619 career Serie A appearances across his two decades playing for Roma, Francesco Totti played a lot of football in his day. In fact, only Gianluigi Buffon and Paolo Maldini have made more appearances than our beloved Bimbo de Oro. Given the sheer length of Totti’s career as a professional footballer, not to mention […]
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After overcoming a somewhat clunky transition to life under Gian Piero Gasperini, the Giallorossi are humming as we head into December. Winners of six of their past seven matches in all competitions, Roma entered Round 13 with a two-point lead over Napoli, today’s visitors to the Stadio Olimpico. While we’re barely a third of the […]
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Roma’s match tomorrow against their Southern compatriots Napoli is a serious testing ground for the Giallorossi. While Gian Piero Gasperini’s men have managed to stay top of the table through nearly a third of the season, their success has come in a decidedly un-Roma way: by winning the matches they need to against the smaller […]
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Roma enters its first match as sole league leaders on Sunday and it’ll be a big test against defending champions Napoli. The Giallorossi are off to a flying start to the season with nine wins in 12, but Gasperini’s men still lack a marquee victory after falling to both Milanese clubs by matching 1-0 scorelines. […]
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In my younger and more reckless days, I would often crank the burner up too high when preparing a meal, naively assuming that more heat meant better meat—let’s attribute that to a misunderstanding of Hank Hill’s sage advice “taste the meat, not the heat.” Though my culinary awakening didn’t happen overnight, after one too many […]
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While many Roma fans are already focused on Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash against Napoli, Gian Piero Gasperini and the Giallorossi have an incredible opportunity in today’s Europa League fixture against FC Midtjylland. Sporting an unblemished record, the Danish club has a slim two-point cushion atop the Europa League table and seems poised to sail into the […]
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Roma return to the Olimpico in a strange dual reality that only this club seems capable of inhabiting: one where the Giallorossi are cruising in Serie A at a level we haven’t seen since 2013, yet are somehow stumbling through a Europa League campaign that should, on paper, be far more straightforward. The club’s domestic […]
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Roma hosts Midtjylland on Thursday, with the Danish team the only remaining Europa League team with a perfect record. Midtjylland has won all four matches and sits atop the Europa League table. Having already secured an away win at Nottingham Forest in the competition, Gian Piero Gasperini will need to make the right selections if […]
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Transfers (and transfer rumors) are the meat and potatoes of the modern-day football journalism industry, and I suppose sites like ours as well. In fact, a simple search for Roma transfer rumors is what brought me to this site nearly 20 years ago. While the Roma sides of the early 2000s certainly weren’t bereft of […]
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If yesterday’s 3-1 victory over Cremonese had happened in Matchday 1 rather than Matchday 12, Roma fans would have been frothing at the mouth with visions of Gian Piero Gasperini’s attack overwhelming the entire league and ending the club’s decades-long Scudetto drought in one fell, entertaining swoop. But a funny thing happened over the past […]
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Roma entered today’s fixture sporting the best defensive record in Serie A and in the middle of a five-team race for the top spot. By any objective standard, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group was riding high. Even their dormant offense had shown signs of progress recently, stacking up a pair of two-nil wins before the international […]
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Back from the international break, Roma’s task remains the same: Keep pace with Napoli, Inter Milan, AC Milan, and even Bologna at the top of the table. After 11 rounds of play, Gian Piero Gasperini’s group has amassed an impressive 21 points and enter today’s fixture against Cremonese winners of three of their last four […]
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“Angeliño has started working again, albeit individually. He’s training well; we’re somewhat dependent on the doctors for this situation. Dybala and Bailey are working together; I think they’re good going forwards, but we need approval here too. The internationals, on the other hand, arrived a day earlier than in previous weeks. They performed well, almost […]
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Typically, when we discuss full-backs in these spaces—especially when it comes to contracts and transfers—our usual introduction focuses on the club’s historical struggles at the position. Since you’ve probably been following us for a while (and if not, hello and welcome!), we’ll skip the trip down memory lane. Instead of analyzing the club’s past failures […]
18 days ago | 1 read
Please don’t say we didn’t warn you: With journalists up and down the Italian peninsula and from every part of Great Britain flooding us daily with updates on Joshua Zirkzee’s possible transfer to Roma, we’ve officially entered the Jadon Sancho zone—a place where every phone call, telling glance, subtle suggestion, and non-denial shifts the rumor […]
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When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
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Next to the actual events on the pitch, and of course, transfer rumors, few things capture the imagination of football fans quite like kits. With new looks released every year, fans don’t have to wait long to get their fix—even though it’s a blatant marketing scheme (or scam), we can’t get enough. From debating the […]
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It’s becoming harder and harder to understand Niccolò Pisilli’s situation at Roma. It’s only been months since the 21-year-old’s coming-out party during the 2024-2025 campaign—and only weeks after a spate of performances for the Azzurrini that may have anointed him the future of both the Italian National Team and the Giallorossi—but Pisilli still finds himself […]
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