Rome, from midfielder to full-back: what Mourinho needs from the January transfer market
It’s not just the renewals that keep Tiago Pinto busy from now until the end of the year. Mourinho several times in the pre and post-match interviews has focused on how the Roma squad is shorter and with less experience than those of the teams that preceded it in recent years. A communication aimed not only at directing the strategies on the Giallorossi team, may also try to draw attention to the attention in view of the January transfer market. It is no coincidence that until now the Special One has practically always used the same 14-15 players, too few to think of facing a season with three races and three races a week. For this reason, the GM is already hard at work in order not to be caught unprepared when the winter transfer window opens. First of all the outputs: for Reynolds a loan solution is being studied (also in B if necessary), while the situation is different for Diawara, Villar and Mayoral. For the first two, as happened already in June, the company is looking for teams that can monetize the yellow cards, while the Spanish center-man could be parked for six months at Fiorentina before returning to Madrid in June as Roma have not acquired any June the right of redemption set at 20 million. Once you have settled these situations you can think about the incoming shots and the first, in order of importance, is the halfback. The name that is made is that of Zakaria del Gladbach. Roma is optimistic to be able to conclude the entire contract already in January seen in 2022 with the midfielder who will already be in the capital in November when his national team will challenge Italy at the Olimpico in the qualifying match for the next world championship. The other role to be fixed is that of deputy Karsdorp with Pinto who is still looking for a young and futuristic profile but with a little more experience than Reynolds and for this reason Pedersen, class 2000 of Feyenoord, also ended up in the notebook of the general manager. it can reach Rome for between 3 and 5 million euros. The full-back, however, is not the only shot in defense of the Giallorossi who, given Smalling’s continuous injuries, would also be thinking of a central to be able to support the already present Mancini, Ibanez and Kumbulla. In this sense, the next few months will be fundamental to understand what kind of answers a Smalling physical level will give. In the meantime, one thing is certain: Tiago Pinto’s work will not be lacking between now and February.