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Rome is Crumbling Part II
Rome steap climb towards the Top Began when Fabio Capello was hired. The Previous coach hadn’t had any catastrophic seasons it had actually been a quite good one judging by Roma’s recent standards.
But now the club was aiming at something completely different becoming one of the best in the country and even the world.
I was very intruged seeing Capello ply his trad there. He had been very successful with Milan and at Real Madrid he had given them imidiate success where so many had failed before. In other words It was interesting to see what Capello would do to a team that usually finished UEFA Cup spot in Italy.
Capello first season was quite interesting he bought two players. In Europe relatively unkown young promising Defender (at the time 22) Walter Samuel from Boca Juniors. s For this defender he paid a then record transfer fee for defenders, at the time many would of argued that there were far better defenders he could have bought for that sum.
But Walter Samuel was a important part of Boca and Boca economics were secure at the time so Boca so no point in releasing the player.
Another Very Similar Transfer was the Transfer of Assancao a virtually unknown Brazilian used by Luxemburgo maybe ones or twice but as soon as arriving in Europe his national appearances were forever forgotten in Brazil.
Both these players were quite low profile. Not Big names, and certainly now cut price deals.
But they were what Roma needed Capello had looked at the team and decided to strengthen it where it needed strengthing. He had also scouted the optimal player for the positions to fit into the Roma squad and he was ready to get them no matter what.
In previous season the coach or the sport director together with the president would be searching the transfer marker for the best cut price deal and get a player that would generate a lot of media attention.
This Roma board was however ready to spend smaller fortunes on players that before arrival the average Roma fan had never heard. of.
However since They were perfect pieces in Capello puizzle they soon showed what an important contribution they made to the team.
Next year Capello continued along the same lines by buying Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Emerson also for a mild fortune.
Another Brazilan playing almost the same position as Assancao
And ofcourse he got one of the best strikers of the 90’s in getting Gabriel Batistuta
This astonished many not many people would of splashed out 30million pounds for a 31 year old
But Roma did. Many said Batigol was over the hill, they were probably right. But he wasn’t going that far away from the top, and the following season he delivered the goods to Roma together with Del Vechio and Totti and sometimes even Montella.
For Roma defending the title season Capello made few changes bought Lima and loaned Panuchhi. Both these players added much needed depth to the squad. Giving Capello more options on those positions where injuries could before damage the teams quality severely.
The Reserve Antonio Cassano was bought as a future Prospect and apprentice to Totti. For enoromous 22million. This I believe had nothing to do with Capello but was rather a personal power struggle between Sensi and Juventus. Sensi trying to show that he can beat the old guard to signing the finest young players Italy has to offer.
Unfortunatley Cassano went to a Capello who had no intention in using the apprentice for anything else the late substitutions.
The First Sign of that Everything wasn’t going that well in Roma was the Transfer policy.
Capello has few weak spots as a manager but if it is one is not being able to sell his players when their stock hits the peak.
(Just as a certain Scottish Fellow Coaching the Dreaded Man U.)
If you look at Roma at the Players Roma the firs three summers of Capello, it was not a single first team regular apart from perhaps I think the total amount of all their players sold during this 3 year stint equaled to the money Roma splashed for Walter Samuel.
Which basically meant they had a buy sell balance of
-72 million
Even Sensi started feeling this pain and this is why he only loaned Panuchi.
However these where the booming days of football so such figures didn’t alarm many apart from myself at the time. some clubs sold for great profits (Perugia and Parma) some clubs sold and bought Expensive (Juve and Lazio) and some club only bought Expensive (Roma)
Roma basically offloaded players that were way over the hill and hadn’t been able to produce anything for the club…. That had their lowest values in many years.-…..
With titles come vanity and dillusions of grandeur. Totti started leading a fraction of the players that thought that their historic Scudetto should be rewarded with a hefty pay rice
And why shouldn’t the champions make as much of money as the underachving divas of Inter Milan do????
Sensi who had long planned to cover this weak side of Fabio Capello with the extra TV Money and Champions League cash.
Had no 4 of his 6 players threatening walk out of the club if their demands weren’t met. It went as far as the Prince of Roma Totti making statements like.
-Roma might not be the only club I play for
-I might be forced to leave roma.
-I would like to stay in Roma for my whole carrear but then they have to pay me what I deserve.
Totti and his agents + lawyers got what they wanted and so did the other players. Suddenly the big TV money was being eaten by the wages.
The CL money was also being smaller then hoped for when Roma failed to progress to the quarter finals of the CL.
A crisis was already on the hands. Then the big bomb dropped on football Europe the bankruptcy of the pay-per view football. Guess they all forgot about People choosing Sport Bars instead of Paying the cable companies for something that ones was free.
Another Point
Roma’s average age in the squad is quite high None of their big spendings will ever even sell for half of their value apart from perhaps Cassano.
All of their smart Buys (Cafu, Montella and Candela) have all started ageing Candela being the only who has yet to surpass his peak.
And here is the beauty
The Catch
Here is why Roma doom is so much darker then Lazio’s.
Roma has a fat debt that has become clear.
Roma will be forced to sell players(not any players) First Team player important player and even some stars.
However there is one problem with this……
There is this one person standing in the way for these sales
His Name: Fabio Capello
Fabio Characterastics include:
Stubborn
Ego Centric
Energetic
Bitter
All these characteristics are the ones that make him into such a great manager. But They also make him into one stubborn fellow who won’t put the best of Roma before his untainted Reputation as one of the Worlds Best Managers.
Capello will sooner walk out on Roma then seeing
Sensi offloading his so precious Jiggsaw puzzle piceces to other clubs.
Fabio Capello has in the past made clear that he is uncompromising in his policy and this has started up feuds with both Berlosconi and Lorenzo Sanz.
So Roma have 2 options really:
A: Making some sales selling either Candela or Roma in winter window, and selling however stays in the summer, also looking to offload Batistuta for some serious money and perhaps finding a suitor for Del Vechhio or Walter Samuel.
This will probably lead to Capello resignation earliest this fall latest next summer. Which will mean Roma will fall accordingly in the rankings, and perhaps 2003/2004 for next season fighting for the intertoto place.
B: Sensi will stand by and watch Capello Coach his team without intervention. Being only able to sell the substitute Cassano to Juventus for perhaps a half or a third of what he bought him for. To calm down the worst debts. Roma might even have a great season and take the Scudetto or make it far in the CL! But Roma will get eaten from within. The wages will effectively kill them together with the transfer in/out deficit. Roma will get killed and eaten from within like a person containing an ugly form of Luekemia. Their Debts will creep upon them like a evil cancer and devour them and their result will ultimately be one of Fiorentina.
I am interested to see how far Sensi is willing to push it………….
Sutnop
(End of Article)
That is the Article
Which Option would you choose?
If you were Sensi
Got Mailed to me by sutnop tooday
ITs the Remix
The Rome is Crubmling PArt II
Remeber where you read it first
only with the Evelyn legend

Back By Popular Demand
Rome is Crumbling Part II
Rome steap climb towards the Top Began when Fabio Capello was hired. The Previous coach hadn’t had any catastrophic seasons it had actually been a quite good one judging by Roma’s recent standards.
But now the club was aiming at something completely different becoming one of the best in the country and even the world.
I was very intruged seeing Capello ply his trad there. He had been very successful with Milan and at Real Madrid he had given them imidiate success where so many had failed before. In other words It was interesting to see what Capello would do to a team that usually finished UEFA Cup spot in Italy.
Capello first season was quite interesting he bought two players. In Europe relatively unkown young promising Defender (at the time 22) Walter Samuel from Boca Juniors. s For this defender he paid a then record transfer fee for defenders, at the time many would of argued that there were far better defenders he could have bought for that sum.
But Walter Samuel was a important part of Boca and Boca economics were secure at the time so Boca so no point in releasing the player.
Another Very Similar Transfer was the Transfer of Assancao a virtually unknown Brazilian used by Luxemburgo maybe ones or twice but as soon as arriving in Europe his national appearances were forever forgotten in Brazil.
Both these players were quite low profile. Not Big names, and certainly now cut price deals.
But they were what Roma needed Capello had looked at the team and decided to strengthen it where it needed strengthing. He had also scouted the optimal player for the positions to fit into the Roma squad and he was ready to get them no matter what.
In previous season the coach or the sport director together with the president would be searching the transfer marker for the best cut price deal and get a player that would generate a lot of media attention.
This Roma board was however ready to spend smaller fortunes on players that before arrival the average Roma fan had never heard. of.
However since They were perfect pieces in Capello puizzle they soon showed what an important contribution they made to the team.
Next year Capello continued along the same lines by buying Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Emerson also for a mild fortune.
Another Brazilan playing almost the same position as Assancao
And ofcourse he got one of the best strikers of the 90’s in getting Gabriel Batistuta
This astonished many not many people would of splashed out 30million pounds for a 31 year old
But Roma did. Many said Batigol was over the hill, they were probably right. But he wasn’t going that far away from the top, and the following season he delivered the goods to Roma together with Del Vechio and Totti and sometimes even Montella.
For Roma defending the title season Capello made few changes bought Lima and loaned Panuchhi. Both these players added much needed depth to the squad. Giving Capello more options on those positions where injuries could before damage the teams quality severely.
The Reserve Antonio Cassano was bought as a future Prospect and apprentice to Totti. For enoromous 22million. This I believe had nothing to do with Capello but was rather a personal power struggle between Sensi and Juventus. Sensi trying to show that he can beat the old guard to signing the finest young players Italy has to offer.
Unfortunatley Cassano went to a Capello who had no intention in using the apprentice for anything else the late substitutions.
The First Sign of that Everything wasn’t going that well in Roma was the Transfer policy.
Capello has few weak spots as a manager but if it is one is not being able to sell his players when their stock hits the peak.
(Just as a certain Scottish Fellow Coaching the Dreaded Man U.)
If you look at Roma at the Players Roma the firs three summers of Capello, it was not a single first team regular apart from perhaps I think the total amount of all their players sold during this 3 year stint equaled to the money Roma splashed for Walter Samuel.
Which basically meant they had a buy sell balance of
-72 million
Even Sensi started feeling this pain and this is why he only loaned Panuchi.
However these where the booming days of football so such figures didn’t alarm many apart from myself at the time. some clubs sold for great profits (Perugia and Parma) some clubs sold and bought Expensive (Juve and Lazio) and some club only bought Expensive (Roma)
Roma basically offloaded players that were way over the hill and hadn’t been able to produce anything for the club…. That had their lowest values in many years.-…..
With titles come vanity and dillusions of grandeur. Totti started leading a fraction of the players that thought that their historic Scudetto should be rewarded with a hefty pay rice
And why shouldn’t the champions make as much of money as the underachving divas of Inter Milan do????
Sensi who had long planned to cover this weak side of Fabio Capello with the extra TV Money and Champions League cash.
Had no 4 of his 6 players threatening walk out of the club if their demands weren’t met. It went as far as the Prince of Roma Totti making statements like.
-Roma might not be the only club I play for
-I might be forced to leave roma.
-I would like to stay in Roma for my whole carrear but then they have to pay me what I deserve.
Totti and his agents + lawyers got what they wanted and so did the other players. Suddenly the big TV money was being eaten by the wages.
The CL money was also being smaller then hoped for when Roma failed to progress to the quarter finals of the CL.
A crisis was already on the hands. Then the big bomb dropped on football Europe the bankruptcy of the pay-per view football. Guess they all forgot about People choosing Sport Bars instead of Paying the cable companies for something that ones was free.
Another Point
Roma’s average age in the squad is quite high None of their big spendings will ever even sell for half of their value apart from perhaps Cassano.
All of their smart Buys (Cafu, Montella and Candela) have all started ageing Candela being the only who has yet to surpass his peak.
And here is the beauty
The Catch
Here is why Roma doom is so much darker then Lazio’s.
Roma has a fat debt that has become clear.
Roma will be forced to sell players(not any players) First Team player important player and even some stars.
However there is one problem with this……
There is this one person standing in the way for these sales
His Name: Fabio Capello
Fabio Characterastics include:
Stubborn
Ego Centric
Energetic
Bitter
All these characteristics are the ones that make him into such a great manager. But They also make him into one stubborn fellow who won’t put the best of Roma before his untainted Reputation as one of the Worlds Best Managers.
Capello will sooner walk out on Roma then seeing
Sensi offloading his so precious Jiggsaw puzzle piceces to other clubs.
Fabio Capello has in the past made clear that he is uncompromising in his policy and this has started up feuds with both Berlosconi and Lorenzo Sanz.
So Roma have 2 options really:
A: Making some sales selling either Candela or Roma in winter window, and selling however stays in the summer, also looking to offload Batistuta for some serious money and perhaps finding a suitor for Del Vechhio or Walter Samuel.
This will probably lead to Capello resignation earliest this fall latest next summer. Which will mean Roma will fall accordingly in the rankings, and perhaps 2003/2004 for next season fighting for the intertoto place.
B: Sensi will stand by and watch Capello Coach his team without intervention. Being only able to sell the substitute Cassano to Juventus for perhaps a half or a third of what he bought him for. To calm down the worst debts. Roma might even have a great season and take the Scudetto or make it far in the CL! But Roma will get eaten from within. The wages will effectively kill them together with the transfer in/out deficit. Roma will get killed and eaten from within like a person containing an ugly form of Luekemia. Their Debts will creep upon them like a evil cancer and devour them and their result will ultimately be one of Fiorentina.
I am interested to see how far Sensi is willing to push it………….
Sutnop
(End of Article)
That is the Article
Which Option would you choose?
If you were Sensi
