[ITA] Serie A 2015/2016 (55 Viewers)
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Roma is pretty short on midfield options without Strootman. They have a starting 3 of Radja-De Rossi-Pjanic, with Keita as a sub, and then two young guys who hardly played last year in Paredes and Ucan. Ucan was terrible when he played, and Paredes not much better. Not much depth there for competing in 3 competitions.
And then you look at their wingers... Salah, Gervinho, Ibarbo, Iturbe, Falque, Ljajic, Florenzi. Seeing as they play only variants of the 4-3-3, having 7 wingers, and only a single real CF/Striker in Dzeko... Their transfer market was pretty strange. They needed to offload a couple wingers for it to make sense to bring Salah and Falque in. They needed to get a RB so Florenzi could play RWF, a position he is much better suited for, and they needed to get a backup striker in alongside Dzeko, unless they see Totti as such. Ljajic certainly isn't a Striker. They should also have bolstered their midfield depth, as their pretty damn thin behind their starting 3.
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He played 7 matches. 2 less than Asamoah.
And then you look at their wingers... Salah, Gervinho, Ibarbo, Iturbe, Falque, Ljajic, Florenzi. Seeing as they play only variants of the 4-3-3, having 7 wingers, and only a single real CF/Striker in Dzeko... Their transfer market was pretty strange. They needed to offload a couple wingers for it to make sense to bring Salah and Falque in. They needed to get a RB so Florenzi could play RWF, a position he is much better suited for, and they needed to get a backup striker in alongside Dzeko, unless they see Totti as such. Ljajic certainly isn't a Striker. They should also have bolstered their midfield depth, as their pretty damn thin behind their starting 3.
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He played 7 matches. 2 less than Asamoah.
He's currently their starting LB, and only LB, until Digne comes, right? I can only see Florenzi, Torosidis as fullbacks in the current team. Unless one counts Ashley Cole and Maicon, but they both seem done. Same with CBs. They have Castan and Manolas, and then these two new signings, Rudiger who was injured most of last year and Gyomber, who seems like a pretty darn random signing as he's a 23 year old out of Serie B and Catania.
Don't get me wrong, Roma has a pretty strong starting XI, they just seem really short on depth at the moment... At every position but attacking wingers. They have a plethora of them.
Don't get me wrong, Roma has a pretty strong starting XI, they just seem really short on depth at the moment... At every position but attacking wingers. They have a plethora of them.
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