Chapter 186: Turmoil
Three consecutive defeats in the league and the Champions League are a big blow to Roma.
After the match with Dynamo Kyiv, the only good news is that Real Madrid did not win either, they drew 1-1 with Bayer Leverkusen, so that in the group, Dynamo Kyiv has 10 points to qualify one round early, Real Madrid is second in the group with 8 points, Roma is third in the group with 6 points, and Bayer Leverkusen is out of the group one round early with 4 points.
Roma also retained their last-round chances.
If Roma can beat Real Madrid in the final round, they will be able to qualify second in the group, and the final game of the group stage will be a crucial match.
But that's not the most important thing for Roma, it's the internal problems that they pay more attention to.
Roma's previous win over AC Milan and two defeats to Bayer Leverkusen caused the team to laugh and laugh, but after the defeat to Dynamo Kyiv, the atmosphere was not very good, everyone didn't have the heart to say anything, and even the manager Drinel was a little discouraged.
Delnell isn't a big name, he doesn't have a brilliant career record, and Roma's wolves aren't too easy to manage.
Frustrated after returning from Ukraine, Delnell submitted his resignation to Baltini, but the club still believed in his ability, after all the previous results were good, and his resignation was dismissed.
The next day the media was covering the incident.
For this reason, the club had to hold a special press conference, in which Delnell denied his resignation, "I never wanted to give up, not before, not now. ”
However, the media is still concerned about Roma's internal problems.
"We're looking for ways to build the team, but there's no struggle and division within us." Drinel said this, but his statement was not accepted by the mass media.
Drinel then admitted that it was a difficult time, but he would not leave Rome behind. He doesn't give up halfway, he wants to lead Roma forward, and the team and the club are with him. The problem is that there are too many injured players at the moment, which is a big problem for his set-up, and the fans will want to give Roma support and patience.
"I hope the fans can really help us. We can win together, and hopefully we can endure setbacks together. ”
Drinel's statement may have had some reassuring effect, but what happened next disproved his claim to nothing.
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First of all, there is the financial problem of Roma, the winter transfer is just around the corner, and Roma club is very troubled in buying and selling players, and they will soon face financial constraints again.
The Totti brothers, a family business in Roma, and the mayor of Rome, Virtroni, have been a staunch supporter of the club, and now there is news that another Roma company is interested in taking over the club. But Sensi was adamantly opposed: "I treat Rome as if it were my fourth daughter, and I will not let anyone who fails to do this get their hands on Rome." ”
That being said, the club is facing a critical juncture, with Roma due to pay off the fourth instalment of the debt in December, totalling around €15.3 million. At present, it is not so easy to get this money on Roma's account, so you can only find a way in the transfer market.
But even here, Rome is undecided.
For Sensi. It's a difficult choice – selling players will avoid a fiscal deficit, while buying players will hopefully change the team's current woe.
Of course. Sensi also has a choice.
If you sell a star, such as Montella, Cassano or even Zhang Tiehan, you can not only avoid a deficit, but also get enough cash to buy a player.
The problem is that the option of selling players is difficult.
Cassano is a Roma-bred star, despite his unruliness. The salary is not low (more than 2 million euros), but the impact of selling Cassano on Rome is very bad, not to mention, many people in Rome believe that Cassano is the future of Rome. Future Stars cannot be sold outright.
It was also difficult to choose Montella, who had been Roma's top scorer before Zhang Tiehan came to Rome, and the title of 'Little Plane' was played in Rome, and he was Roma's second iconic star besides Totti.
Zhang Tiehan?
Old Sensi definitely disagrees, his purpose is to make Roma's results better and better, how can he sell the best players in Rome now.
Choose one of the three, and the result is a tragedy for Montella......
Montella was listed on the transfer market, a decision made by the club's manager Andy Bardini.
Montella was naturally in a very bad mood, and when he re-entered the Italian national team and trained with the national team in Fiorentina, he began to complain about Roma, publicly accusing some of the club's leaders for not being sympathetic and criticizing them for not bringing the team to the top.
'They say a lot of empty words, they talk more than they do, I don't want to blame anyone, we changed coaches, there are a lot of players who leave here, but there are managers who do wrong things and don't give anything. These managers are always fooling around, making a lot of mistakes and not being replaced, which is the peculiarity of the football industry. Montella was not named, but everyone knew that he was scolding Roma general manager Bardini.
Only Del Neri was praised by Montella, but he was powerless to change the current state of the team.
"The leaders of Rome have not yet paid for their mistakes, and they have been talking empty words in the summer."
These words had a lot of repercussions for Roma, and many Roma fans gathered in front of the club's door that night to demand an explanation from Bardini, and the result was a shocking turn - a few days later, the media broke the news that Montella had renewed his contract with the club.
"There are times when planes never land, like our 'little plane', which has been forever united with the Roman sky." This is the comment of the newspaper Sport Milano on the renewal of Montella's contract with Roma.
"The contract, which expires in 2010 for a total of 29.5 million euros, is more like an advertisement that Roma played in advance in the summer football market."
Montella came close to going to Inter Milan last summer and is still in Roma, "The deal didn't take much trouble and it meant my career would end here." There were a lot of problems with the club's financial situation last year. Now that the club can invest in construction again, I am confident that Roma will be competitive again by the start of next season and will be back in the last four of Serie A. ”
Cassano immediately asked for a contract extension after Montella renewed, and his contract expires in nine months, and he made a request for a total salary of 26 million euros over five years. It's less than Montella, but the Club of Rome hesitated, after all, the annual salary of five million is too high, they already have financial problems, and it will cost a lot of money to renew the contract, and Cassano is not better than Montella, after all, he didn't have Montella's table before.
Then Zhang Tiehan's heart was unbalanced......
He also knew Roma's problems and he wanted everyone to play hard together and try to win for the team. But why did everyone sign a good contract? And his annual salary is only a pitiful 2.3 million euros...... That's not fair!
Even if he knew the team's problems, Zhang Tiehan was still unbalanced.
After all, the table is linked to the salary, Zhang Tiehan is quite good in the team's table, even if he lost three in a row, he also scored two goals, one is a league goal, and the other is a Champions League goal, so to speak. The best thing about the team is him, Montella has a big contract of more than 5 million euros a year. Totti has always had a big contract of more than 5 million euros, and now that Cassano has asked for it, he should have asked for the same.
If Cassano can successfully renew his contract, then he should also have a higher contract!
So in the next few days, a man with a frightening appearance appeared in the Club of Rome. He was wearing a suit, a tie with an international brand, and even sunglasses, which looked like an underworld bodyguard, and even Old Sensi didn't react when he saw him. Although they have seen it before.
"I'm here to negotiate a contract for my cousin!" Zhang Zhenren just said such a sentence, and the Club of Rome was quite a headache.
Zhang Tiehan is not the god of Rome!
He was just a mortal, an ordinary man, he knew the situation in Rome, he knew the problems that Rome was facing, but Rome was not his, and he was treated unfairly in Rome - Montella, who was worse than him, could sign a big contract with an annual salary of more than 5 million euros, and he could only have a contract with more than double the difference.
It's not fair.
A while ago, he was still envious of Montella's car, and now the gap between the two is even greater, Zhang Tiehan is unbalanced in his heart, he also hopes that Rome can get better and better, but that is not on the basis of sacrificing his interests.
Zhang Tiehan and Cassano asked for a contract renewal at the same time, and after a few days of negotiations, the Club of Rome had no choice but to refuse directly, Cassano's negotiations were still ongoing, and Zhang Zhenren only got this sentence, "That's impossible!" ”
It's always been this phrase.
Zhang Tiehan was quite dissatisfied.
Although the situation of the club is poor, it is acceptable to drag on the negotiations, but what does it mean to refuse outright? He even wanted to talk to Old Sensi in person, but in the end he decided to do so for the time being.
"As long as I can keep scoring goals, they will definitely renew my contract!" Zhang Tiehan thought.
If he can score goals in every game, the Roma club will rush to give him a big contract, otherwise, there will be no place to stay here, and it will be a big deal to leave Roma in the summer.
This is the end of the matter.
The Roma club also breathed a long sigh, but the club's problems still existed, Zhang Tiehan, Cassano, Montella and other stars could not move, and they could only find solutions from other aspects, that is, to sell some small stars.
For example, Dacu, Hecandela, Dras, and Panucci, who has already decided to leave Rome, and then Mido. If all these players are successfully sold, and the non-payment of their wages saves a lot of money, Roma can solve all their financial problems in one step.
After selling these guys, Roma could also consider buying one or two players.
The first is Siena's Tadej, where Roma have at least two players – Stino and Corvia – who are interested in Siena and can be swapped. The other is Bonani, born in 1982, a full-back whose ownership is shared between Roma and Vicenza.
The Club of Rome is ready to go, and they are going to get started.
At this time, Mido's agent, Raiola, commented on Mido's current situation. 'It takes at least six months for a foreign player to get used to the team's environment, but the club doesn't understand that.
Raiola said, "Mido simply didn't have a chance to show his worth. ”
As for Mido's cousin, Raiola said, "Like other foreigners when they first arrived in Italy, Mido had a lot to adapt to, but the real problem was that Rome was in a difficult time now, and it was a problem for them to protect themselves. He also secretly mocked Cassano: "There are players who play the full 90 minutes as soon as they come back after being excluded from the team for a long time. The club's approach is to show who is crazy and who is playing. ”
He also said that they would play fools if they were fools.
As a result of Raiola's remarks, Mido became the first person to tragedy, and the next day he was put up for sale by Roma, and the buyer - Tottenham Hotspur of the Premier League - was contacted very quickly, and Tottenham Hotspur asked for Mido to be loaned for six months before deciding whether to buy it or not.
Desperate to settle the trouble, and the price of Medo was still up for debate, Rome agreed.
The handshake between the two clubs quickly brokered the deal, and just after December, Mido packed his bags and left Rome for faraway England, which might have been a good option for the Egyptian. (To be continued......)