So, I take that the FFP troubles are thing of the past for good?
Eh , it's getting better , but we'll always have to keep it in mind until Roma can build a stadium. Unfortunately , Roma's revenue is closer to a Europa League side than an established CL team, so that means we need to sell every year just so we can cover yearly costs.
Monchi wants to get it to the point where we aren't forced to sell, but can sell under our terms. In his short time , he's gotten us much closer to achieving that goal. Our previous DS left the club in a disastrous state , so much of what he's done is cleaning up our books and getting younger.
A top foreign CB in mid-20's probably cost at least 40 millions and close to PL salaries as well. Getting one isn't easy, a better bet is probably trying to find a new Skriniar type of player from Balkans/Eastern Europe.
Yeah, I would guess 25-30 million is probably our sweet spot, atm.
Obviously I'm not privy to the inner workings of the club, so I have no idea what was possible (or not) , but these are some names (within those parameters) that would've helped (imo):
- De Vrij, Free (likely impossible coming from Lazio)
- Calgar Soyuncu, 20m
- Zouma, Loan
The only way we can get a fully developed class , class CB is if their contract is expiring and we can get a cut price. Names like Vertonghen , David Luiz, Kompany all have expiring contracts, but I'm not sure they'd be interested in Roma , nor am I sure if we can offer them competitive wages.
Italy usually produces top CB's as well, and since they all can't play for Juve, Roma should be able to get one too. You know, Caldara level of player, aren't there any others?
Haha well, unfortunately, we sold Romagnoli, who was our great italian CB prospect. There's a couple guys coming up with a bit of potential ... Marco Varnier who just moved to Atalanta being one. But , for the most part, they're all owned by the Milan clubs or with Juve.
We'd have to develop our own, or beat one of the giants to the punch, which is really hard to do for Italian talent.