Leicester City are set to pass on signing permanently Cengiz Under.
The Turkey winger has been on-loan at Leicester this season from AS Roma, though has struggled to find a place in manager Brendan Rodgers’ plans.
Sporx says Leicester are now planning to send Under back to his parent club.
The Foxes paid €3m for Under’s loan, with the outright option valued at €25m.
Keeping tabs on Under’s situation are Fenerbahce, which are keen to bring him back to Turkey this summer.
Former Roma president James Pallotta has clashed furiously with a fan online over the sale of Mohamed Salah to Liverpool.
Salah has starred for Liverpool ever since leaving Roma in 2017 for £35m.
One fan online took on Pallotta, suggesting it was all about money, claiming Roma only cared about Financial Fair Play regulations.
He posted to social media: “Replacing Salah with [Patrik] Schick is confirmation of the inability of a company that constantly sells the best players.
“You’re not good enough at turning omelettes, trust me.”
Pallotta replied: “You still show ignorance by ignoring fact that Salah wanted to leave and had one year left [on his contract].
“So sell for 42 [million euros] or get zero?”
The fan’s responded: “How about offering him enough to stay?
“Also, who to believe: the person who was here and handled the transfer specifying ‘we had to sell him for FFP’ and Totti clarifying he did not want to leave or the person who left us on the brink of bankruptcy?”
Pallotta then declared: “It has nothing to do with money. God almighty.
“He wanted to go back to the league that told him he wasn’t good enough.
“By the way. When I bought the team it was in bankruptcy. We bought it from Unicredit.”
The supporter continued: “In order to do what other teams have done, you need to go through sponsorships – sadly, only wealthy ownerships can do that.
“Jimmy simply did not have that wealth but wanted to blame FFP to maintain consensus among the lesser brilliant minds. It really is that simple.”
Having had enough, Pallotta blasted: “You are seriously at the top of the list of f***ing idiots.
“Absolutely in a category of your own.
“I am going to have to think over the weekend how to classify you.”
Luis Alberto’s brace followed the opener from his skipper Ciro Immobile as Lazio crushed Roma 3-0 on Friday in the Rome derby which opened the Serie A weekend.
Last season’s Golden Boot winner Immobile put Lazio ahead in the 14th minute after Manuel Lazzari dispossessed a dithering Roger Ibanez and set up the striker’s 12th goal in the current campaign.
Nine minutes later, the fast winger Lazzari had again the better of the Brazilian defender and squared for Luis Alberto’s shot into the far corner.
Lazio remained in control and after the break Roma goalkeeper Pau Lopez saved attempts from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Felipe Caicedo and Immobile.
But he stood no chance on Luis Alberto’s drive in the 67th minute.
The Spaniard sealed the Laziali’s victory by firing clinically from outside the penalty box into the right corner.
Pepe Reina, himself a Spaniard keeping goal for Lazio, blocked a late effort from the Giallorossi captain Edin Dzeko with five minutes to go.
“For us it was very important to win,” Luis Alberto said, “because in Serie A we had a glum period. But we have been improving [with wins] in the last three games. We have improved a lot and today we confirmed it.”
Lazio, who qualified to meet holders Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League, moved to seventh place in Serie A and are now three points behind the third-placed Giallorossi.
Champions Juventus are fourth, one point behind Roma and with a game in hand, before Sunday’s classic against second-placed Inter Milan.
Leaders AC Milan, now sitting three points clear of Inter, meet Cagliari on Monday.
Nineteen-year-old Ilenia Matilli has been in hospital since December, after a car crash which killed her best friend.
In her gradual awakening from a coma, a video message of support from former AS Roma great Francesco Totti played a part.
“Hold on and don’t give up,” the 44-year-old former Roma captain and forward told Ilenia in a video he sent following a request from her parents.
After hearing his voice, Ilenia gave further signs of recovery and wrote on a special blackboard that she wanted to meet her idol.
Totti and Ilenia spent an hour together, the Gemelli hospital said in a statement.
Even though she used to play for the women’s team of Roma’s city rivals Lazio, Ilenia was wearing a Roma T-shirt which Totti signed with a golden marker pen.
“I want to see you out of the hospital soon and get your life back,” Totti was quoted as saying.
Doctor Luca Padua, who leads the neurorehabilitation unit, said listening to music, sounds and looking at images were an important part of Ilenia’s therapy.
“There is still a long way forward, but we are confident,” Padua said.
Former Italy international Totti spent his whole career at Roma, playing over 600 Serie A matches for the club before retiring in 2017.
Chelsea are being forced to wait to close a deal for Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Kai Havertz.
The completion of Chelsea’s £90million deal for Havertz is being held up by Bayer Leverkusen, as they continue the search for his replacement.
The Bundesliga outfit want to secure a deal for his successor before confirming his departure, according to local pundit Jan Aage Fjortoft.
“Lot of you ask when the two clubs will confirm the deal. I think it could be next week,” he wrote on Twitter.
“As Leverkusen are working to get Patrik Schick from Roma (on loan in Leipzig this season) as replacement. That could happen next week. Understand this the reason for the delay.”
Roma have announced an agreement to sell the club to the American-based Friedkin Group, who have bought the Serie A giants for €591 million (£534m/$702m).
Previous owner and club president James Pallotta signed the necessary preliminary contracts to sell Roma to Dan Friedkin, the current chairman and CEO of The Friedkin Group, on Wednesday night.
Roma confirmed the news in a lengthy statement on their official website , which reads: “AS Roma SPV, LLC (“AS Roma SPV”), the majority shareholder of AS Roma S.p.A. (the “Team”), announces the signing of a binding Equity Purchase Agreement with The Friedkin Group, Inc. (“Friedkin”) pursuant to which, among other things, AS Roma SPV will sell to Friedkin its controlling interest in the team and certain related assets, including the funds it has made available to the team to support its foreseen capitalisation, and Friedkin will assume certain related team liabilities.”
Pedro is set to move to AS Roma this summer.
That’s according to Il Romanista, which leads with it’s frontpage today news of an agreement between Pedro and Roma.
The veteran attacker has been persuaded by the prospect of playing for Paulo Fonseca and the plans Roma’s coach has for him.
Pedro is off contract at the end of this month and was fielding offers from across Europe.
At Roma, he will join Chelsea teammate Davide Zappacosta, who will stay on-loan next season, and also fellow Spaniards Carles Perez, Pau Lopez and Gonzalo Villar.
Nothing is yet signed, but all signs now are that Pedro will be playing for the Giallorosso next season.
Roma are growing confident of signing Chelsea attacker Pedro.
The Sun says Pedro, who turns 33 in July, will see his deal at Stamford Bridge expire in the summer.
His Chelsea exit has been on the cards for a while and he said in March: “I’m terminating my contract, but right now it’s not the most important thing, nor have I stopped to think about it.”
The Spaniard has played just 18 times this season – with only nine of those in the Premier League – and scored twice.
Roma have already made their approach with a £2.7million-a-year offer, equating to just over £50,000 per week, plus bonuses.
Former AS Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi has announced his retirement from football at the age of 36, after signing a leaving Boca Juniors.
The midfielder says the decision is not due to injury, but a desire to be closer to his family back home in Italy.
“I don’t have any health-related issues, I have the need to be with my daughter. They miss me, and I miss them,” De Rossi said at a news conference.
“I had the pleasure of working with the new board. They tried to convince me to stay but the decision was set. They asked me to think about this for a few days.
“The board offered me their help. But I don’t need help. I need to go back home. I’m not only saying goodbye to a club that’s in my heart, I’m saying goodbye to football, it’s my world.
“I don’t want to get into details. I’ve already explained it well. My oldest daughter was the only one to stay in Italy. She’s living well, she’s not in danger, she just needs her father.
“Here in Argentina we’re very far [away]. If I were elsewhere in Europe, I would be an hour away.”
De Rossi made the high-profile move to Buenos Aires in July and marked his competitive debut with a goal against Almagro in the Copa Argentina the following month.
However, he has been restricted to just five further appearances for the club since, his cause not helped by injuries including a hamstring strain picked up against Boca’s great rivals River Plate in September.
Despite his premature departure, De Rossi insists he has no regrets about the move and will always hold the club dear.
“You guys know how the Boca fanbase is, what La Bombonera is, I’m leaving a piece of my heart here,” he added.
“I will continue to be a part of Boca. Perhaps destiny (will) bring us together once again. I will continue to watch Boca. The people I’ve met here have been magical, I will never forget this experience.
“This decision wasn’t made from one day to the next, this decision was made a while ago.”
Prior to his move to Argentina, De Rossi had spent his entire playing career at boyhood club Roma, where he made 616 appearances for the Serie A outfit over 18 years.
He helped the club to Coppa Italia success in 2007 and 2008, as well as being named Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2009, Goal reports.
The midfielder bade an emotional farewell to Roma at the end of the 2018-19 season following the expiry of his contract, penning an open letter thanking everyone at the club and ‘every Roma fan’ for their support over the years.
AS Roma moved into fifth place in Serie A with a 2-1 win over AC Milan at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday to continue the visitors’ crisis.
Edin Dzeko headed the hosts in front in the first half before Theo Hernandez drew Milan level after the break.
Nicolo Zaniolo struck the winner after 59 minutes to send Roma above Cagliari into fifth on 16 points, one behind Napoli in the fourth and final Champions League spot.
Stefano Pioli has picked up one point from his first two games since succeeding the sacked Marco Giampaolo as Milan coach and his side are 12th with 10 points, having won just one of their last six games.