Yet he was Roma's best player in the first half of the season probably as he was great.
Like what?
Corriere wrote that. Montella himself said 'don't believe what papers say, it's not true'.
He played one single great match this year and that was against Udinese, where he both scored, assisted and was unstoppable. On that match he scored half of his goals and assists this year. On the other 30 matches in serie A he scored 1 single goal (in the 2nd part of the season) and had 1 single assist (in the 1st part). You're using "great" way too easy here.
How can an attacking midfielder who doesn't score and doesn't assist be great? The "invisible" Marchisio has 4 goals and 4 assists while at the same time the "great" Menez has 2+2.
And the locker room problems I mention are those with Montella, circulating in the press lately.
Also, if what you say is true and there are no problems, then the new rich Roma won't sell the guy and he's out of our reach.