The journalist Mark Evangelists dedicates as usual an editorial to the current events at Roma, focusing this time on Ghisolfi’s explosive transfer market and Friedkin’s twists: “People with a passion and a craft for cinema, the Friedkins know where to place a twist. But also a crescendo of suspense, a narrative device, a MacGuffin as Hitchcock called it, a briefcase with a luminescent interior. Or a cloud of subtle uneasiness. Or all of this together like in Parasite. They do the same at Roma, then. One time Mourinho, another Dybala, the next Lukaku. Obviously, by dint of surprising you back yourself into a corner and risk crashing into the public’s increasingly jagged expectations. Ask M. Night Shyamalan, while we’re on the subject.
The advantage is that football offers inexhaustible escape routes. So this summer of very long and sweaty waiting suddenly becomes fast and invigorating. De Rossi preached in the desert of a retreat without starters, someone, us first, began to get nervous and the cloud of subtle anxiety was solidifying into a cloak of bad mood. At the right moment, when the tension had become unbearable, the acceleration on the stadium arrived, the conclusion of the arm wrestling for Soulé, the investments here and there even in the less frequented places of the team, the reassurances in the facts for the coach, even the high bet on Dovbyk, one of the most exciting names among those who have not yet come out of the enclosure of financial reasonableness”.