Roma director Tiago Pinto won’t confirm if Lorenzo Pellegrini’s new contract is close, but reiterates the club was ‘damaged’ by refereeing decisions in Serie A.
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Captain Pellegrini was suspended against Lazio, but returns today in the starting XI, with reports his new contract is almost ready to be signed.
“I have always said that the club and the player have the same desire to get this done,” Tiago Pinto told Sky Sport Italia.
“He is the captain, he is focused and we need to talk about the game rather than the future right now.”
However, the director was more than happy to devote much of his pre-match interview to discussing the controversy from Pellegrini’s ban and the defeat to arch-rivals Lazio in Serie A, which Jose Mourinho blamed squarely on the referee.
“Roma do not hide from results, but we saw very different refereeing criteria in the last two games for similar incidents, and that means Roma were damaged.
“We are not trying to create some sort of warfare or chaos, we want to respect the institutions, but we were left angry by the different approach to similar incidents against Udinese and Lazio. We simply wanted to raise the issue and make it known.”
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You simply should be fined for putting pressure on the refeees. Just because Pellegrino hot unfairly a 2nd yellow and thereof suspense for the Next game that happened to be the derby , you are basically saying there should be others who suffer from wrong calls as well.
You can’t make this up. The funniest thing is that THEY were GIFTED a penalty and still complain. Roma is really the shame of the League.
The only shameful thing here are your spelling and grammar, Burky-purky. As for the funniest thing: you conveniently ”forgetting” the penalty in the first half that should have been awarded, but wasn’t. You know, the one that would’ve stopped Lazio‘s counter from which they scored their second goal and instead either bring the match to 1:1 or keep it at 1:0? Yeah, ”forgetting” to mention that is pretty damn funny, buddy.
Nobody wants to be complaining but consistency is required. Penalty was a make up call. Fact is the complexion of the game changes is the penalty is given at 1-0. And to add insult to injury, Leiva (not sure how to spell his name) should have picked up the second yellow. You better believe it that was Juventus they would be getting the calls going their way…