Tiago Pinto, the magician of the Roma transfer market: 100 million collected – Corriere.it

That the summer market of Rome was divided into two phases was not new. As well as the well-known watershed date of the June 30, 2023. Sell ​​first, then buy. First the accounts are settled as requested by UEFA, then we proceed with the new grafts. Unless the latter reach zero as happened with Aouar And Ndicka. Two incoming officers e five to be released in June: Tahirovic to Ajax, Kluivert to Bournemouth, Volpato and Missori to Sassuolo, Carles Perez to Celta Vigo.

Difficult transfers to define painful given that it was not a matter of owners. Sacrifices, especially those of children – as Jos Mourinho called them on several occasions – useful for dealing with the stakes of the financial fair play

without having to greet some untouchable or undermine the growth of the project by distorting the squad every summer. In short, Rome is demonstrating that there is a way to be compliance (i.e. compliant) with the limits imposed by UEFA and at the same time embark on a path of growth, of the club and of the squad itself.

The ok to the fine, the no to the sale of the big names

The result of these June capital gains it therefore led to the achievement of the objective which had a very defined and above all well-concerted strategy behind it. The ownership of Rome – personally involved in this dynamic – had been clear from the beginning by agreeing to pay a limited fine as long as it stopped at a certain threshold of capital gains. A limit, this, which could be controlled by limiting the exits to those players whose departure (e technical value, therefore consequently economic) would not have compromised the quality of next season’s squad. The

settlement agreement agreed with UEFA envisaged various solutions based on the achievement of various objectives but the club would still have faced a fine unless it had aimed for a figure of capital gains much higher than the approximately 30 million circulated – and in fact achieved – within the month of June. Hence this ok to the fine contained in order not to sell the big names and consequently weaken the squad.

Tiago Pinto, mister 100 million

No sooner said than done. In June, Tiago Pinto made the five shots by removing from Roma two players who were no longer part of the technical project and who had already spent last season elsewhere (Kluivert and Carles Perez) and three young players who in the Giallorossi 2022/2023 season they have collected a total of 787 minutes in Serie A. Less than 9 games in three in the league. The result? Five outgoing transactions worth almost 35 million, 28 of which for capital gains. Without selling any big. Indeed, also cheering the fans in this first part of the summer market with the extensions of the contracts of Smalling (as of 2025) e Cristante until 2027, in addition to that of Belotti and the next one of El Shaarawy. So mission accomplished Tiago Pinto, the gm worth (over) 100 million. This is the figure that the Portuguese, since arriving at Rome, has achieved through the transfer market.

And he did so without handing over owners (apart from Zaniolo, but by choice of the club, and Mkhitaryan who, however, had already decided not to renew his contract with the Giallorossi) and making the most of the products of the nursery on which Roma now practically always manage to maintain percentage on future resales. Another aspect not to be underestimated in perspective should other situations similar to the current one, linked for example to Frattesi, arise. In short, the big names and the growth project do not touch each other, the sacrifices on the UEFA altar cannot undermine the quality of the squad, the obligatory capital gains do not come from the departures of the owners. whoever wants the young players from Roma’s youth must pay for them. And if the objective achieved does not fully satisfy the FFP stakes, what a fine. Contained but above all taken into account upstream. From here the hot summer of the Giallorossi market continues.