Since the Friedkins took over Roma, the club have invested €50m into their youth systems and now they’re ready to start promoting their growing talents.
A number of Giallorossi youth products are part of Luciano Spalletti’s Italy squad at the European Championship, including Riccardo Calafiori, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Gianluca Scamacca and Davide Frattesi. Nicola Zalewski is also at the tournament, representing Poland.
During the James Pallotta era, Roma focused more on signing foreign players at the expense of their home-grown talents, a strategy that didn’t pay off and left the club in a weaker position. Things have changed since the arrival of Dan Friedkin and his family, however.
Roma change course
Page 26 of today’s Corriere dello Sport details how Roma have invested over €50m in their youth department since the arrival of the Friedkins and they’re now planning to rely more heavily on young talents, ready to start promoting some to Daniele De Rossi’s first team.
Primavera players like Niccolo Pisilli, Joao Costa, Lovro Golic, Matteo Plaia and Mattia Mannini are on track to start integrating into the Giallorossi senior side in the coming months and space will also be made available for the best of the Under-19 squad.
Only Calafiori is OK, all the others are mediocre.
Correct @ Eddie, although I’d argue Frattesi too but he isn’t given enough playing time to prove it (to be fair, Inter have better players in their midfield so that’s fair in that sense) but then again, I have a feeling De Rossi won’t do as well as the Friedkins hope and he will bottle next season bad bad 😅
Yes invest In the youth but if you have your mind set on challenging for big trophies then you need couple of big name players to take the team foward