Roma coach Jose Mourinho has the trust of the owners at Trigoria but the Portuguese tactician is currently destabilising the dressing room at the Giallorossi.
The Friedkins are determined to show their faith in the coach and the club is pointing at refereeing errors and inconsistencies as the elements that have cost them points at the start of the campaign.
But with only one win in seven games, the pressure is naturally increasing on Mourinho and the hierarchy at the club must find an explanation to the poor return across all competitions in recent weeks.
La Gazzetta dello Sport highlights the attacking problems at the Olimpico, with Roma topping the charts for shots on goal with 214, but they are only seventh in the league when it comes to goals scored.
And at Trigoria, the smiles have turned upside down in recent weeks too, as the coach threw the players under the bus and has been giving mixed signals to his players.
An example is how Ebrima Darboe started the match against Bodo/Glimt on Thursday but was not in the squad for the 3-2 defeat against Venezia on Sunday.
The seriousness has increased after a light start with smiles and jokes at the Giallorossi and the newspaper claims the dressing room has been destabilised due to the link between the players off the pitch.
Some of the players are reportedly not happy with the treatment of others at the Giallorossi, even if Mourinho could be right when he pointed out that the squad is not ready to compete at the top in Italy and Europe.
But the ownership didn’t agree with the method used to make some players redundant after the embarrassing defeat in Norway, also because they need to sell some of their squad players to sign new ones.
The newspaper also claims Antonio Conte’s arrival at Tottenham was not received with indifference by Mourinho, given the previous relationship between the two, and this might have affected his mood.
The club will most likely intervene on the transfer market in January, but it’s necessary to sell first and it will not be easy.
Roma have a project where young players are meant to grow and Mourinho’s current strategy is being questioned.
Apart from defender Roger Ibanez, the outlet claims none of the others are improving, while Gonzalo Villar and Amadou Diawara seem to be outside of the project.
Marash Kumbulla and Riccardo Calafiori are down too, and the problem with the current situation is that the value of the youngsters will continue to drop if they are obviously not the future of the Giallorossi and it will thus be harder to make a profit.