Agresti just a few hours ago said on VS that the club is not broke at all, they just can't take any more players without sales. You can't afford to add midfielders to a department that has 9-10 players already (including the youngsters). You also can't take a new LB/RB while being stacked numerically in these positions. Bini & Bene know the jabronis are pretty much impossible to sell so they have to be extra cautions here and not add player to an already too big squad.
The only position where we can take a player is attack, an additional winger (Zaniolo) can be taken but Roma still doesn't want our players in the deal. If MDL goes, for sure they will get a 'proper' replacement.