THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

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For those in the U.S, the Europa League game will be on goltv.

Links to extended highlights of the Siena match:
http://hotfile.com/dl/12370797/d2eff1c/ ... a.wmv.html first half
http://hotfile.com/dl/12390153/25fe417/ ... a.wmv.html second half

[Italiamia]

The former Chelsea manager has taken over at his home club to little fanfare and with a modest initial ambition – to stop conceding goals


He's not the messiah... Roma's new coach Claudio Ranieri directs his team during their victory at Siena. Photograph: Fabio Muzzi/AFP/Getty Images

Claudio Ranieri is not the messiah. No one really acclaimed him as such, to be fair, but nevertheless at his official unveiling as the new Roma manager, the Tinkerman took the opportunity to spell things out. "Bread into bread, wine into wine," he offered when asked to sum up his approach to management. As inspirational pep-talks go, this was right up there with KPMG's corporate anthem. By the time he was done, Ranieri had also promised "pragmatism", and an end to "champagne" football.


All of which is, of course, exactly what Roma needed. Before Ranieri's arrival Roma had conceded 12 goals in six matches this season and six in two Serie A fixtures. For the vast majority of his four years in charge, Luciano Spalletti had overachieved – winning the Coppa Italia twice and finishing second in Serie A as many times – but even last season it was clear the existing formula was not working. Despite finishing sixth, Roma shipped 61 goals in the league. Only three teams in Serie A conceded more, and two of those were relegated.


Roma needed a fresh start, a change of tactics, an injection of new ideas. In the immediate term, though, what they really wanted was a softer opponent. For all that back-to-back defeats represent a disappointing way to start any season, Roma had opened their campaign away to a Genoa side with serious designs on a Champions League berth and followed that up with a home game against Juventus. Ranieri's season, by contrast, began against a Siena side whose main goal will once again be top-flight survival.


That is not to say the Robur would simply roll over, of course, and though Roma eventually won 2-1 they had trailed until the 72nd minute. Ranieri has devoted much of his time on the training ground thus far to one-on-one work with Roma's defenders, and one has to wonder if he was simply reminding them: "You got us into this mess, now you get us out." His side's equaliser came from the boot of Philippe Mexès, and the winner from a free-kick struck by John Arne Riise.


"The patient has not recovered, but he has at least got out of bed," reflected Stefano Boldrini in Gazzetta dello Sport and that seems a fair reflection. Ranieri initially sent Roma out in a 4-4-1-1 formation, then revised that into a 4-4-2 with a diamond midfield during the second half, but his team rarely looked fluid. The manager had talked all week about putting opponents under pressure higher up the pitch but the fact Roma seemed more solid at the back had much to do with the limitations of their opponents.


Although Ranieri has arrived at a moment when many of Roma's long-running injury problems finally seem to be clearing up, this was also the first game after an international break and both Mirko Vucinic and Julio Baptista talked their way out of starting places by saying they were tired before kick-off. In goal Júlio Sérgio, whom Spalletti once described with wonderful sincerity as "the best third-string goalkeeper in the world" was making only his second appearance, but he cannot be blamed for Massimo Maccarone's opener and had little else to do besides.


It will be some time before we can judge Ranieri's impact properly but the win has at least bought him some time with a fanbase that had mixed feelings about his arrival. On the one hand many feel Ranieri should have won more trophies in his career, but on the other he is a native Roman who has always dreamed of managing the club and never forgotten the advice of Carlo Mazzone: "If you don't climb the steps that lead to the Olimpico you can't say you were a manager." Some older supporters from around the San Saba district even remember the Ranieri family's butchers shop, and how Claudio himself would deliver cuts of meat by bike as a teenager.


In the meantime those fans are content to direct their anger towards the team's president, Rosella Sensi, who stands accused of, among other failings, refusing to sell the club despite the fact that her family's business, Italpetroli, are in significant debt and therefore cannot invest in the team. A number of proposed takeovers fell through over the summer, and in recent weeks pharmaceuticals magnate Francesco Angelini has publicly stated he remains interested in buying out Sensi.


Sensi maintains that she is happy to sell to a serious bidder but claims Angelini is simply seeking free publicity. Her critics assert that she will not sell until the banks agree to waive a portion of Italpetroli's debt – since even the sale of her 67% stake in the club would not come close to clearing it. During the international break there were fan protests outside both her house and the team's training ground. Fireworks and smoke bombs were set off at the latter, and of all the team's players only Daniele De Rossi was actively cheered.


In such an atmosphere it might seem unsurprising to hear that Roma have sold fewer season tickets this year than their city rivals Lazio, were it not for the fact this has only ever happened once before – in 2003. Sensi actually had an unprecedented success this week when she persuaded the authorities to cancel a ban on Roma fans travelling to Siena, yet in the end the club managed to sell only 500 of the 1,500 tickets they were allowed to offer, in part because of their requirement that all fans must submit photocopies of ID cards when buying them. Roma's Curva Sud Ultras released a statement attacking the "absurd" bureaucratic exercise.


Many managers would have thought twice about stepping into such a poisoned environment but not Ranieri. Indeed, he is so committed to proving his own worth at this stage that he actually negotiated to have a lower base salary than the club was offering, but with higher bonuses available if the club's targets are met. He may not be the messiah but if Ranieri cannot save Roma, he will at least have made the club a saving.

[marco]

[stefano]

[RomaShield27]

What are you gerbronies on about? Jersey devils, the 'trap', Marty Brodeur...?? Wadaaafeck?

Apparently some Americans want to invest in Roma's new stadium:

GAZZETTA: Fondo americano vuole investire nel nuovo stadio
– 15.09.2009 09:30 articolo letto 859 volte

Restiamo in attesa di sa perne qualcosa in più (ora pare che la conferenza di lancio sarà organizzata a Trigoria il 22), ma pur senza saperne molto questo nuovo stadio della Ro ma ha già fatto una «vittima» (l’On. Barbaro) e sollevato un vespaio di polemiche. L’ultima di Legambiente Lazio: «Roma non ha bisogno di nuovi stadi, tanto meno di scempi e specula­zioni in aree agricole vincolate come quelle sull’Aurelia, con ri storanti case e mega store», di ce il presidente Lorenzo Parla ti. Come abbia fatto a vedere lo schizzo progettuale portato in Comune da Marco Staffoli, pe rò, è un mistero. Quei fogli, cu stoditi da Alemanno, non sono stati visionati nemmeno dal suo braccio destro Antonio Lu carelli, che seguirà la questione dopo l’addio di Barbaro. Rico struzioni giornalistiche a parte, se ne sa poco. Qualche rumors: il terreno sarebbe di Scarpellini e i partner potrebbero essere gli Angelucci, almeno secondo chi giura di averli visti con la Sensi in Regione, dove oggi an che Lotito presenterà lo studio di fattibilità del progetto Lazio.

Dagli Usa Intanto, una cosa con creta: un ricco fondo america no specializzato proprio nella costruzioni degli stadi ha dato mandato alla Open Gate Italia, società di public affairs di Tullio Camiglieri, di verificare la fatti bilità di un’impresa simile con la Roma. Il mandato è ufficiale ma freddo, come il trattamento riservato dalla Sensi alla Open Gate nella vicenda museo

[maro]

I hear there's an Irishman who's interested in buying the club too. He just doesn't have the money.

[RomaShield27]

But at least that Irishman buys a ticket to see said club play every now and then, unlike some others around here.

[maro]

I know you're just trying to goad me into coming over there and shitting in your sock but I can rise above that kind of thing.

[ASR1927]

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[RomaShield27]

Its available for download in the now, could only find one with Turkish commentary though.

[ASR1927]

[maro]

[maro]

[RomaShield27]

[Italiamia]

Roma Il nuovo stadio è lontano
mar, 15 set 14:02:00 2009

Il progetto del nuovo stadio della Roma? Ancora in alto mare. Un piano fumoso, forse più dettato da esigenze di comunicazione e interessi politici, che da concrete convinzioni realizzative. La conferenza stampa della Roma (di cui non è stata annunciata la data precisa, ma solo un rinvio alla 'prossima settimana', mercoledì scorso) per presentare il pacchetto del 'Franco Sensi' non si farà a breve giro. Non c’è un plastico, ma solo disegni progettuali e rendering al computer mostrati all’assessore regionale Montino; il proprietario dei terreni alla Massimina (Sergio Scarpellini) non è ancora stato interpellato da nessuno riguardo alla transazione di vendita; non c’è né l’ok sull’impatto ambientale né tantomeno la variante al piano regolatore (che in media con gli iter d’urgenza arriva dopo 8 mesi circa). (Leggo - Edizione Roma)