Sometimes one game is enough to understand everything. Roma has found its way: now it’s up to whoever sits on the bench to make no more mistakes
Roma, indizio importante sul prossimo allenatore: lo porta Soulé (LaPresse) – serieanews.com
Sometimes it takes a slap in the face to realize what’s in front of you. Other times all it takes is a derby. Because inside some matches there is more than just the usual adrenaline, the usual jeers or the usual tension that keeps you up the night before.
Inside some matches there is much more. There are answers. Maybe not definitive, sure. But clear enough to make what was previously pretended not to see jump out at you.
Anyone who saw Matías Soulé play against Lazio must have thought it at least once: “But how did this guy manage to stay so long on the bench?” Good question. The answer, as is often the case in soccer, is hidden in that tangle of choices and fits that decide seasons.
If Roma spent about 30 million for Soulé, it goes without saying, it was so that he would be a star player. And if there was an original sin in this Giallorossi season, it was precisely the misunderstanding created with Dybala. The starting idea was simple: transfer (to Arabia) of the Joya, a left outside and trident with Soulé. Then Paulo changed his mind. He stayed. And from there on the complications began.
The one who paid for it was the youngest, the one who could eventually be benched without too much guilt. First De Rossi, then Juric, and finally even Ranieri had to do it, and he had somewhat eclipsed. Until, however, what often happens in soccer happened: an injury to someone in front, a chance that seems random, and a talent that finally explodes.
Il derby consacra Soulé: la prossima Roma è tutta intorno a lui
Because the derby, for Soulé, was much more than a game. It was an emotional release, with that marvelous goal and the liberating exultation: a signal sent not only to the fans, but especially to those who will have to build the Roma of the future.
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Ranieri, who in recent weeks has put him back in the center of the game with a continuity he never had before, has also understood this. Now, however, he must also convey it to what will be the choice about Roma’s future.
Because at this point the way is mapped out: Soulé is the player around whom the next Roma must be built, just as it was supposed to be last summer. And to do that we need a coach who speaks his footballing language: trident, 4-2-3-1, call it what you will, but that’s the idea.
And this is where the derby becomes, indirectly, a clue to the coaching market. Someone is needed who can build the team on such creative talent and give it technical-tactical meaning. It is no coincidence that Stefano Pioli’s name continues to circulate around Trigoria. He, for example, would be a perfect profile for the Roma to come.
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But even if it is not him, the sketch is now clear. Roma’s next coach must be, first of all, ready to build the team around Soulé and the talents Roma already has in its possession. You cannot make a mistake again, otherwise you risk ending up like last year, whichever coach comes in.
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