Rodrigo Mora

But of those moves, which ones did you like? Which ones did you didn't like? And...

Well, Rodrigo Mora going to Roma was a great move for the player and a great move for the club.

In Gasperini, they have a coach in his second season whose blueprint is very clearly now taking hold.

You see the way that they've been playing, that a two-goal lead against Inter this weekend, they allowed it to slip.

Rodrigo Moura.

But they're doing that fourth right now.

But Farioli... institutes his type of football at porto it is paying dividends he wins a title right now they're they have an unblemished record rodrigo mora obviously didn't fit his style of football right which is a much more physically imposing football but for porto to relinquish such a jewel Must have been really painful to Porto fans.

If I were a Porto fan, I would have been apoplectic with that move.

And I just had a thought.

Rodrigo Mora is our tunnel rat.

He's just...

He goes in, weasels his way in, and just causes havoc underneath.

Uh, I, I think that one of the best advantages that Roma has attacking-wise is that, you know, we had Paulo Dybala, Matias Soule, and Daniel Malin to start off the match in kind of the attacking roles on the side, not to mention, you know, Luli and Molina.

But when you, you take Paulo Dybala out, you can put Rodrigo Mora in.

When you take out, uh, Daniel Malin, you can put Santiago Castro in.

And more than just that in terms of attacking, Roma, as I said, has defenders, midfielders, fullbacks who can really press and make you pay in a way that I think is gonna cause a lot of confusion for especially Italian sides not necessarily used to that style of play, used to defending that style of play.

Whenever Roma is making a sub...

Like, let's look at the subs that were made this, this match.

It was Rodrigo Mora, Santiago Castro, Manu Kone, Martin de Roon, and Divine Rench.

That's pretty good.

But it is something that I'm seeing from the outside

I think actually the, the position I would pick on for this kind of thing would be the two attacking midfielders behind Marlon/Castro because, you know, in this game it was Dybala and Sule, and then Rodrigo Mora tends to come off the bench for one of those two.

Now, if we work on the basis that, you know, Dybala started the season very well and has been very available, but we have to work on the basis that that will not remain the case because you'd have to be naive to think so, then I think Sule and Mora are both players.

Sule we know better and he's capable of great things.

He's also capable of being anonymous for a while.

He, he's not totally reliable.

Rodrigo Mora looks quite good, but he was very good when he came off the bench today.

Um, you know, he's quite young and he's new, so that's not totally reliable.

Think he's got big time upside.

Rodrigo Mora in one of the more unexpected transfers of the summer I thought.

Danjiel Malen I'm not a huge fan of, but I can absolutely see why they kept him because he did well for them last year.

Koulierakis, the center back from Wolfsburg I really like.

Whether that's the case in the Champions League I think is different.

I mean, what, what you've said to me there basically is the team that Gasperini would ideally want is Srna, Wesley, Marlon, Rodrigo Mora, and, um, some work experience students.

Uh, which-

[laughs] Well, if they can run

I think Malen is the one guy, and maybe even Malen will be spelled by Castro when there's, you know, like, a Champions League match followed by a Serie A match, or, you know, a Coppa match and a Serie A match very close in, uh, in line.

Uh, but if you're Paulo Dybala, Matias Soule, uh, or Rodrigo Mora, or for that matter, you know, Maarten de Roon, uh, there are a lot of players who are gonna be, like, flop- swapping in and out of those positions behind Malen.

And I think that, uh, all of them need to both be ready at any moment, but, you know, understanding that there are going to be moments for them to shine, moments for them to rest, and that's how a Champions League-level team has to operate.

You just have to have enough offensive weapons that you can really, uh, just provide...

Uh, there was a lot of grumbling about not bringing in the left winger.

I'm sure we'll still do that grumbling until January, although there are some rumors about free agent pickups.

Uh, but I think that any team that has Malen in this form alongside Santiago Castro, Matias Soule, Paulo Dybala, and, uh, Rodrigo Mora, is pretty blessed when it comes to, uh, you know, attacking creative depth.

Uh, and that's not even mentioning Lorenzo Pellegrini, who I think is probably gonna slot in as another rotational player behind Mora and D- and Dybala and Soule in those kind of, you know, attacking midfielder roles.

oh yes i'm very worried about that but i think that is that is something that we can yeah we can we can deal with it it's more of a ass net pick up with the ghost pain let's

yeah there's the statistics i want to give out i mean audience it is very serious about the transfer window so these are the breakdown of the top five major european leagues how they've spent so far this summer right epl they have topped the 2.31 billion every every year led by massive spending like the likes of the lacroix enzo fernandez so i mean they have yeah 2.31 now the second team is syria ah syria rather the italian syria scudetto one billion and there's a reason to this this is the first time i saw an italian team went on to the market to buy players who don't have tired legs i mean players who are ready to compete players who are good players who are supposed to play for the big guys but they went for them leonardo belladi from marcel 27 joining as roma there's donjen malen who is staying they went in for wesley franca same as roma gasparini is there now and then they went for rodrigo mora from fc portal yeah Manu Kone, they kept him because they want to compete.

So this year, I know Roma are one of the reasons why there's one billion for Italian series in there.

We know the Inter Milan, the likes of John Stones, Curtis Jones, Jet Spence, they are in there.