If a better coach became available next summer I wouldn’t be that upset if Rudi is replaced. We aren’t going to go anywhere if we keep coming up short in these big games.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain.
Decision time, people. Do you want Roma to lose it’s soul and achieve European glory, or do you want Roma to stay what it is and have a shockingly empty trophy cabinet?
Oh they had their chances many, many times during the last 10 years… they never took it. Roma is like an eternal teenager, whenever they face responsabilities and need to be serious, they bail out
i think two years ago we earned like 10m more than bayern (who actually won the whole thing) despite milan qualifying for the RO16 as well...
so making the QF this year would be brilliant ^^.
Hopefully they dont bottle the EL, Italian teams always give everything to finish as high up in the league as possible. They qualify for the EL only to bend over because they care about the league more.
It's an endless cycle but i think the mentality is changing now and teams try harder now.
Actually i find Europa League way more fun for us than CL. At least we have a chance to win the trophy, so every game will be important. What’s the point of CL games for us outside of the financial point of view ?
that's just 'market pool'... there's also performance based money... like €3.5m for participation in round of 16, 3.9m from participation in QF...
the figures I wrote was an estimation of 'extra' money because of Roma's early elimination. like an approximate extra €9m because of Napoli's elimination in the qualifying stages.