Pinto: “I can’t guarantee that Zaniolo will play in Rome next year”

This time the vote Tiago Pinto does not give it: after the end of the summer market he had given 7.5, at the end of the winter one the Roma GM says he understood and leaves both the report card and the titles to the reporters. He gives more than someone: “We have brought more musicians to the conductor Mourinho, renewals are stopped for now, Zakaria had followed him, I cannot guarantee, neither I nor anyone else, that Zaniolo will stay next year”. The GM’s message is clear: now Roma, which he calls both a team and a family, must be compact around Mourinho and think only of the pitch and the season. The rest, then, will be seen.

The two arrivals

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Says Tiago Pinto of Maitland-Niles and Sergio Oliveira: “We have brought more musicians to the conductor, now we have to improve the instruments for the best symphony of Roma. Our goal was to be practical: to find the right projects for those who played less, to bring useful players to the coach and to balance the costs, to be fast. And we did it, the two new ones immediately had an important impact on the team ”.

Zaniolo and the renewals

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Asked about a possible redemption of the two, Pinto says: “We have time to think about it”. The same goes for renewals: “I am not afraid of the future, we are doing a job to become stronger also from an economic point of view, in the coming months we will make a plan with one certainty: on 1 September 2022 we want to have a stronger squad . Beyond who we sell or who we buy. In the last three transfer sessions we have kept the most important players. Now, this is the moment of the collective, I say it honestly, we have to think about the results of the team, that they are satisfactory. In due course we will talk about everything, now let’s think about the three competitions because we can have a good season ”. Dry question: can you guarantee that Zaniolo will stay with Roma next year? Equally dry answer: “I can’t. Neither me nor anyone “.

Zakaria followed

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Pinto then denies the many market names of the last few months except one, Zakaria: “First of all, I want to say that Diawara has not blocked anything, football is like marriage, there must be agreement between everyone. But it is not true that a third purchase did not come through his fault. Zakaria? When you are looking for a player there are many factors, but it is true that we followed him. The scouting works well because they had reported it, maybe the sporting director is scarce ”, adds the Portuguese manager with a smile.

Abraham and Chelsea

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Final remarks dedicated to the transfer market in general (“we will not go back to Neymar’s times, it seems to me there is more balance”) and to Tammy Abraham: “There is, it is true, a right to buy back from Chelsea, but from 2023. I’m not worried, but rather happy because he is doing well and can do even better ”. Last question: is working for Roma, instead of Benfica, more difficult? Pinto’s response: “It’s different. But we are working to grow as a club, if someone does not want to open the doors and they will open them to Roma for me ”.