Frattesi-Roma, Ghisolfi and the suggestion that makes the fans dream: the words before the derby

There is the derby and it is an event that goes beyond any discussion of the pitch or the future, but it is January and there is also the transfer market that hits every team that needs to strengthen. So before Roma-Lazio, the Giallorossi sporting director preferred not to delve too deeply into the questions of who stays and who goes. But the little he said about Davide Frattesi was enough to tease the fans. “If we like it? I don’t want to comment on transfer rumors, much less tonight. I can only say that Frattesi is a good player, he too is a son of Rome.” The same words used for captain Lorenzo Pellegrini (author of Olimpico’s 1-0 and surprise starter). Frattesi was born and raised in Rome: a brief passage in the Lazio youth team, where he played as a striker and learned the art of insertion, then off to Trigoria. Sassuolo was his first experience away from home and there he made his Serie A debut with Dionisi, then he wandered around Ascoli, Empoli, Monza and finally Inter, preferring a return to Rome in the summer of 2023.

in fact it’s no longer enough to be a ‘super-sub’

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In Milan he won the Scudetto and the Super Cup, now he is aiming for a repeat but also to play more. In Serie A this season he has played 14 games, just 4 as a starter, for a total of 585 minutes on the pitch. Too few for his ambitions. At Roma that “good player” would play more and the idea of ​​removing the label of ‘super sub’ as the English say, i.e. very good replacement, he wouldn’t mind one day. Maybe already in January, even if it seems too complicated at the moment. It is unlikely that Inter – who value him at no less than 40 million – could deprive themselves of him halfway through the season and without a ready alternative. But sooner or later the club’s ideas will have to deal with the player’s desire for more space. And that’s where Roma will have to be ready.