With a revamped squad, Roma went on into the 2009 season with high hopes, new players and a more depth. Alas a poor start condemned this season to not only failure, but an embaressment to Romanisti all over the world. not only are we out of the CL contenders spot, we are 3 points adrift from 7th place, and a staggering eight from fourth.
How could this have happened, sure we can blame the ref once or twice.. injuries also played a huge role. But that would be immature to place 8 defeats and 4 draws on such petty reasons. When i say immature, i mean blaming this hell of a season on fate. Injuries have destroyed our squad, left us thin and without any form of substitute. immature is when we blame Panucci when he fell out with Spalletti, when we could have used him against Arsenal. Immature is also when Rosella Sensi blamed the Physio's - who have been with roma for 10 years -, after she fired them, brought in the new medical staff and there was no difference in the number of injuries.
When a team fucks up so many times, a defense refusing to ever learn from their mistakes, and a front line too inconsistent. More or less, the teams over dependence on Francesco Totti. IMO, you can blame the players.. when a team cannot learn from their mistakes then the problem is with the teacher, Luciano.
Ranieri who is a shite coach, managed to cope with his injury list and will see CL football. No doubt Spalletti is an amazing manager, but his stuborness to depend on certain failing tactics undermine him as a manager. His genius is too repetitive, and his game is easy
to read. Though, in his defense Roma do lack the speed to issue spalletti's vintage counter attacks. But we have the midfielders to conquer any pitch. sadly, we always lose possession in all our matches, and not only do we lose possession, we lose the reputation la lupi has built over the past years.