Nainggolan, Pjanic, Szczesny, Digne, El Sha: Sabatini reveals AS Roma’s transfer strategies
“We have 4-5 goalkeepers. Alisson is the senior Brazil national team goalkeeper, so our choices are pretty clear. Szczesny belongs to Arsenal at the moment. We have an option to make El Shaarawy’s move permanent and we are going to activate it. We also want to keep Digne, but we are still negotiating with PSG”
“If I were Nainggolan and Pjanic I wouldn’t ask us a pay rise. I am not worried for them, it’s normal to receive lot of offers after such an amazing season. We’ll try to keep them in Rome, but it depends on their will, we are not selling our players out!”
“Primavera players are generally not ready for promotion to senior team. We are keeping tabs on many youngsters such as Mazzitelli and Politano. Promoting youngsters to senior level is never easy.”
“We are fixing some details with Totti. We have to clarify a couple of things about his future in the control room, problem is not money.”
“Dzeko is very strong, but he’s been a bit unlucky too. We scored three goals per game deploying a pacey attack so it was difficult for him to rack up game time. He’s a true pro and he’ll never be a problem for us.”
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