“We are beyond crisis, we’re at the paradox of a field forced to root for Cagliari or Venice, to avoid risking Serie B.”

Continued fevers, conditioning delays, technical and character deficits. Roma is a gigantic rehabilitation center, a hospital where healing comes from changing coaches every couple of days. However, returning to the initial condition, the one that leads Roma fans to despair and see the Serie B just two points away. We are beyond the crisis, we are at the paradox of a stage that becomes exalted for a couple of days due to a goal by an Arab player against the fifth-ranking Portuguese team. Which is so depressed that it settles for a comeback against Giampaolo’s Lecce. Which is forced to cheer against Genoa in their match against Milan, or Venezia against Juve, because it is better to wish defeat upon those fighting for survival than those aiming for a place in Europe. The problems of a dramatic season are upstream, but they continue downstream. Of course, the company that arrogantly wanted to know more than others is not spared. They selected a command chain devoid of knowledge about Italian football: The Greek, Souloukou, the Frenchman, Ghisolfi, the English trainers, and an American pilot. Who knows why those at the top of the rankings rely on Italian executives. Are they just less original? No, they’re simply more realistic. The blame also lays with the two coaches who sat on the bench before Ranieri did. One of them endorsed a market full of flashiness yet lacking substance to the point of demanding at least Kone, but letting slide the fact that it was possible to play in Serie A with Celik as a starter. Not to mention the preparation. This team has more feverish attacks than a nursery, it’s insufferable. The other has caused more damage than hail on land already hit by rain and drought, blatantly ignoring the likes of Hummels, who today in Trigoria could open a football school of his own.

Then there are the footballers. Beginning with the captain who, after a goal against Braga (and two others missed), perhaps thought of claiming a right of reply to the deserved boos he had received in previous matches, announcing that the good of Roma could also be him in the future. If we take away the European parenthesis with Mourinho, we struggle to see where this has been the case in the past. The same also applies to the vice-captain and the one after. Moving then to the new signings: the 35 million dollar forward who has an unspecified physical problem and remains undaunted even when he gets physically attacked and no referee blows the whistle, the 23 million dollar midfielder who plays two-touch football before the area as if he were the best Pizarro, the 30-million dollar winger who gets tangled up in his own legs, making us miss Iturbe, and the defender who dreams of Real but before the presence of the Master Gabrielloni, he seemed like Loria with a Hispanic accent. To these are added the old survivors of mediocre placements and memorable embarrassments. No, nobody is spared. No one should be spared except those who had warned us about the probable decline. But this is also the worst news because as it is said: “Everyone guilty, no one guilty.” Roma is just two points away from Nicola’s Cagliari, a team that didn’t even deserve to lose on Saturday. However, this Roma deserved to lose at Como. As he had rightfully earned it against Verona, Empoli, Fiorentina, Bologna, Napoli, Inter, and Atalanta. “The attitude was just right.” But when indeed – and we say this also to Mr. Ranieri who up until now has spoken to us with honesty and affection. We hope for his rapid recovery, and urge him not to defend those undeserving of defense. There’s a need to flip everything on its head here, we must demand a new leader and a market managed by people who at least know the rankings of the Serie A in the last 10 years. This is no longer a matter of criticism or ideological partisanship, but of bare survival. You haven’t provided any text for me to translate. Please provide the text you want translated.