July is the month in which the transfer market begins, a substitute (which is no more substitute) for football that keeps football fans and fans busy in view of the resumption of official matches. A car whose interest engulfs all the restreducing to secondary things, even important ones, that that transfer market, already very tiring and often made more of crap, which in fact make him move.

Come, for example, i rights television: vital income, almost unique, for clubs that every year have to strive to close at least presentable financial statements, often thanks to the sale of players who end up impoverishing their technical potential. And speaking of television rights, those of the area were awarded two days ago MENA (Middle East and North Africa), unsold last season and now the prerogative of Abu Dhabi Media, for a total sum in the three-year period 2022-2025, official announcement, of 76 million euros, about 25 per year, plus a possible and at the moment not very clear bonus linked to the total return of 20-30 million. Code very low if we refer to the value of the agreement of the previous three-year period, 2018-2021, which earned the Serie A well 112 million euros per year and that it had been signed with BeIn Myselfdiam. BeIn Media is no longer considered a “strategic” partner, because en route on the piracy issue with Saudi Arabiahome to two past editions of the Italian Super Cup and the next one, scheduled for January in Riyadh.

Despite the broken relations between the two parties, the CEO of Rome Pietro BerardI he had managed to keep the strings taut and always bring an offer from BeIn that the indiscretions want to be superior – there is talk of a range that goes from 30 million per year guaranteed to “tens of millions more” – to the one, later accepted, in Abu Dhabi. Logic – at least, a sound logic – would like this offer to be at least brought to the scrutiny of companiesinstead not only did this not happen, but the Giallorossi CEO even received one unprecedented public reprimand by the CEO of the Lega Luigi De Siervo. BeIn itself, which with a mail withdrew from the auction due to the “lack of transparency of this process“, But beyond the fact itself, this was the first episode of this season in which Roma were not only put in minoritybut attached form from Lega Serie A, and this is not really a good start in view of the season, which follows a trio of vintages sportingly dramatic from a political point of viewwith decisions not only on referees on the field (and on the video, worse still), but also on the desks that often and willingly went against the Giallorossi, such as those on domestic TV rights and on the entry of funds.

Rome weighs little – huh few allies – in Via Rosellini, where one has been in force for years apparently unscratchable status quowhich is also reflected on the playing field and beyond: it is not and cannot be a fault, because it cannot be a fault to work seriously and pursue objective interests. And the feeling is that, again this year, the League could still leadsref.and Roma will have to collect and perhaps respond, aware that it is absolutely not certain that it can be of any use, in any case, anzi. A nice problem, much more thorny than a market case.