re: AS Roma 2013-14 / Serie A Thread

Noticing the uneasiness of the board becoming palpable over the fate of the AS Roma thread: bump.


Off the Pitch Good News:

1. President Pallotta plans to infuse €100m into the club's capital. This along with the Nike money should mean, as most predicted, that any transfer moves this summer would be due to extreme offers and the club would have no need to sell before buying.

2. Chinese business magnate Chen Feng is close to reaching an agreement with Pallotta and Unicredit bank to buy the 3rd of the club still owned by Unicredit. Pallotta has been trying to bring in a party with an interest in investing to buy these shares.

3. The new stadium is to be announced at the end of March with Pallotta and architect Dan Mies claiming it will "be something European soccer has never seen."

(Since the site currently has a horse racing track my guess is that this may mean that the track is left and the starting 11 arrive to the pitch in chariot while the Ben Hur theme blares out across Roman ruins.)


4. Pallotta announced this in Rome metaphorically saying that we've only seen the "First Inning" of his plans for AS Roma which immediately caused google.it to be inundated by 1 million "whata does it meana the firsta inning"




The so so news on the pitch: lots of minor injuries/flu (Gervinho, Maicon, Dodo, Totti, Balzaretti, Torosidis) and so another makeshift lineup against Inter tomorrow with 18 year old CBs playing fullback.