Repubblica: "In December De Rossi, Manolas, Dzeko and Kolarov asked for Totti's head, Di Francesco and Monchi"
ROME – Edin Dzeko, Kostas Manolas, Alexander Kolarov and Daniele De Rossi , the four senators of the locker room of Rome , asked in December 2018 to blow up the coach of then Eusebio Di Francesco, the ds Monchi and, above all, asked for the head also by Francesco Totti. To publish the contents of this internal email of the Giallorossi company is "Repubblica". The article is signed Carlo Bonini and Marco Mensurati. The document is dated December 16, 2018. But the article does not only mention this internal document. The article by Carlo Bonini and Marco Mensurati also tells the background of a disastrous season marked by poisoned relationships between players, managers and coach.
According to the newspaper everything starts this summer when Rome decides to buy Nzonzi.
"De Rossi – reads the article in the Republic – considers that purchase to be an eviction notice, considering the French a duplicate of his. And – as three different sources tell us – he asks, also through his agent, for the termination of the contract. He faces the management personally and in a moment of anger he warns: 'If we do not solve it, I will get you tenths'. It's not a great start. The tear is sewn up. But that crunch is the prologue to what will happen in just four months. "
"The first part of the Rome season is marked, writes" Repubblica "from the inexplicable comebacks of Chievo at the Olimpico and Cagliari at Sardegna Arena. The victory in the derby and the qualification for the Champions League round of 16 keep it afloat. But something broke ”.
December 16 is the day in which the athletic trainer Ed Lippie, a man of James Pallotta's fiudicia, always writes the newspaper, decides to write the mail quoted by Repubblica. Four days before, Roma lost to the Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League. The league standings are already compromised.
"In the document, dated December 16, 2018, a trusted man by James Pallotta – explains" Repubblica "- tells his president how the dressing room or at least part of it asks the property to drop three heads: that of coach Eusebio Di Francesco, that of the sporting director Monchi, and that of the eighth King of Rome, Francesco Totti ”.
The senators "consider the game of Di Francesco insane, costly in terms of running but put on that of tactics. They complain about the weakening of the team. The technician – say from Rome – is prey to neurosis due to the regret of having accepted from Monchi an unsuitable market for his 4-3-3 ".
The Spanish ds is seen by the players "as a narcissist who has filled the team with players for whom winning or losing is the same thing. They reproach him for duplicity in his relationships, intolerance for second-rate players, manipulative abilities in information coming out of Trigoria and a market that has not gone through proper due diligence ".
But who are the sources of Ed Lippie? I am the medical doctor Riccardo Del Vescovo and the physiotherapist Damiano Stefanini. Ed Lippie, in particular, "indicates in the mail of the Bishop as the most convinced that Rome should be detottizzata".
But the email does not remain secret.
Monchi, Totti and the entire corporate structure, starting from the then DG Mauro Baldissoni and then the media strategist Guido Fienga, are informed of the email. Monchi, having learned of the e-mail, resigned. Resignations that are rejected.
At this point, however, society asks Monchi for a plan B. Plan B that Monchi will never present. Indeed, the Spanish ds binds itself to the destiny of the coach: "If it goes away Di Francesco I go away too".
He pulls forward until the Champions League knockout when they are accompanied to the door, together with Di Francesco and Monchi, also Del Vescovo and Stefanini. Even the company at managerial level is reorganized.
Pallotta “and its members do the only thing in their availability. They redistribute powers and appoint Guido Fienga as a man with long experience in finance. The vice-presidency goes to Baldissoni ".
"The senators – writes" Repubblica "- are convinced that cleanliness has a principal: Francesco Totti. And between him and De Rossi comes a chill that will last until the end ". Until the failure to renew and the departure of De Rossi.
The Corriere dello Sport writes that De Rossi has remained "baffled by what has been published" and would be ready to take legal action against the drafters of the article. On the contrary, the club declined to comment on the article itself.
Source: La Repubblica and Corriere dello Sport.
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