Long interview with the microphones of Radio Mana Mana Sport for the former Giallorossi Stefano Desideri: “Is Ranieri the right man for Roma? Certainly yes, it was a dark period made up of misunderstandings and strange situations. This ownership has no experience in football, we need to have people who know about this sport. Let’s see what path there will be, we need to regroup but everything must start with them. Unfortunately in this city we live on enthusiasm, on the heart and on attachment, and we must take this into account”.
This aspect has always been underestimated, while it could be an added value.
“In my opinion they were badly advised. In all places there are negative people, in Trigoria there were several. They believed that the evil of the club were those who were attached to this team. Serious mistake and to repair it today they took Ranieri There seems to be skepticism about this, even looking at the relationship with Totti and De Rossi. I think we are begging for our Romanness, our faith.
We also need to understand what moment this is and why Ranieri must be accepted as a savior.
“We have reached the bottom and now to go back up we need these people here. But why have we made a clean sweep of these people? A human property should realize the human material it has and then decide. That is a feeling of mine that has been built on Romanity over time. They make you feel a little bad.”
There seems to be a lot of approximation in the choices, and then afterwards they only think about patching things up.
“If we evaluate the men to fill this role, Ranieri is number one. But it shouldn’t have gotten to this point. We had the young people, the youth sector and a coach who could build himself, but there was too much haste. I believe that the choice was driven by other factors, I don’t think this decision was made without influences.”
The next three games are tough, but more time will have passed.
“Unfortunately we are in this situation here, with Napoli I expect a great performance. The approach will be important, then you can also lose. Today we need to rediscover a soul, the desire and that desire to fight, the attitude is fundamental. When there are these situations and then you can’t do what you think you’re doing.”
Do you think Ranieri can start from the more experienced ones?
“Basically yes, but he will be attentive to the conditions in training. There was talk of Hummels and other things, but he will have his eyes open and will put in those who are most ready.”
It will be a litmus test for the players too.
“They are all called to their responsibilities, not just them but those in Roma in general. We need to row in the same direction, it’s a bad situation and the players don’t like being in this situation. But they have to do something more, they are of a good level “.
If you were the coach, how would you play it?
“It’s not easy. They have two strong wingers, we need to be careful of Politano and Kvara. In the middle of the pitch they have strong players, Lobotka will have to have as few balls as possible and we need to be dynamic. We shouldn’t just defend ourselves, but it will be necessary to restart.”
Yesterday there was an opening for team B, how useful can it be?
“The Primavera championship has always been a problem, the gap with Serie A has always been wide. For years no solution was found, but now the bridge team is important. The boy with a bit of growth delay is now can recover. If I think about the kids who grew up with us and are now around I feel bad.”