The coming year, as Lucio Dalla sang, will pass in a year. And it is a year in which Roma fans expect more concrete answers. Both from the field and from the market. While waiting for Pinto’s “hits”, the first “signings” of Roma will be Lorenzo Pilgrims and Leonardo Spinazzola. The Giallorossi captain has been in the pits since November 28 due to a problem caused by the number 7’s too much love for the shirt. After gritting his teeth many times while also giving up on the national team, an injury to his quadriceps made him finish the year early. Until the stop in Rome-Turin, Lorenzo was the extra man of Mourinho. Amazing numbers: 8 goals and 3 assists in all competitions. A huge absence. In Milan on the day of the Befana he will try to be there to continue the run-up to fourth place that has become more complicated after last night. Mourinho hopes so but he is not sure he will be able to count on it as early as January 6th. In the meantime, number 7 will continue to work even on vacation in Dubai as he will be accompanied by his physiotherapist. The great absentee of the season, however, remains Leonardo Spinazzola. The European played at very high levels had to be the prelude to an over the top championship. Bad luck went on with the Giallorossi full-back who suffered during Belgium-Italy rupture of the Achilles tendon. Mourinho recently declared: “Not if I have Spinazzola by January”. The hope is to review the left arrow at least for February after the last and definitive consultation with the doctor Lempainen. An indicative date? Let’s dream big and let’s say February 6 with Genoa. The Special One needs it but above all Roma, which at the moment consoles themselves with Vina, obviously not obtaining the same results.

Not just returns, here are the possible shots to come

Two heavy absences that led Mourinho to change the face of Rome. Above all without Pellegrini, the technician redesigned the set-up with a Zaniolo alongside Abraham and Mkhitaryan to play more the half wing than the pure attacking midfielder. With Lorenzo’s return, things will probably change. But Mou hopes to be able to change also by virtue of new arrivals from the market. At least two shots are needed in addition to the returns of Pellegrini and Spinazzola to start the year with a bang. Grillitsch at the moment he is the closest midfielder to Roma but Pinto’s sentence from yesterday also opens up other scenarios: “90% of the names released are not true”. However, the Austrian seems to be the favorite to take over from Veretout and Cristante. Nuanced, on the other hand, Zakaria who is in the process of signing with the Borussia Dortmund and for which Rome had to close a long time before. The other essential purchase is the destroyed full-back. Karsdorp necessarily needs a change on that band. And Reynolds is not. Roma focuses on the will of Henrichs, which is pushing to be divested in January. Also like Max Aarons, 22 years old, from Norwich, but his price, which exceeds twenty million, does not seem within Roma’s reach. So beware of alternative tracks, one of these can be Kristensen from Salzburg.