The Simon Gabriel Journey

I look Down at the ground and see a stretcher. I shuddered i wanted get out there was people everywhere. They lifted me up and carried me out the arena. I wanted to get up and see what has happened but my neck said no. All i see is my red socks i remember them being black. Then is when realised i wouldnt play ever again. The first game for my favourite team and never again will it happen again.

I then later wake up on a wet hospital bed in Manchester. Looking down on my Chevrolet shirt i thought i was in a car crash. Then i remembered what i thought about before. All i could think was that i would never be in that red shirt again.
How could i forget over a night i thought to myself loudly. I then heard my wife Arianas voice saying to me no Simon over 9 months. I then shouted "WHERE IS MY SON".

As i remembered my wife being in the 8th month of her pregnancy. She answered me in a happy voice. "Suprise!! Another came along. I then looked down with tears in my eyes on the cutest little girl in a United body and a toy car in her hand. And the cutest boy ive ever seen in my 20 or 21 heard of my Life still being dizzy i couldnt remember. In the smallest dungarees ive ever seen and a Sweden shirt with my name with my name on it i then saw a hat and teddybear in his month that i could hardly remember.

I asked if was my baby stuff my wife answered by giving me a long kiss and saying."Yes, how could you rembember it was one of the things we got from your mom when they where born. I then asked where my mom was when suddenly my beautiful Ariana put my babies in my hands and said "Ill go get your mother and by the way get used to saying Damian and Nova because it alot from now on. My little girl Nova then hit me on the belly and said wondering daddy?!

Twentyone days in hospital that i can remember almost made me sicker than i was. The food stank roten bananas and moldy saucage and even if its hard to imagine it tasted even worse.
So coming Home to my lovely wifes food was so good. But in the middle of dinner i got a call i saw it was from Italy on the +code. I answered not knowing what to expect. I answered saying Ciao, che é la? In my bad Italian.

I then heard a dark voice saying "Are you interested in a manager career" For what team i answered although i didnt care id take any job as a manager now! He then said take the flight to Turin and ill tell you everything in a very noticeable Italian accent. Sounding like someone from The Sopranos. He then said Ciao and hung up. I told my wife followed by those Italian mafias are scary. She laughed out loud.

And then screamed so it sore in my ears "Kids were going to Italy" I ate my food quickly and called my chauffeur and said four places in your best jet. To where he answered i said quickly. To Turin and get two glasses of your finest champagne. And two juice boxes.

I went to a private runway where he said we would meet. He came no less then 5 seconds later. I was looking at this jets in his runway and they looked like something from a Sci-Fi movie.
He pointed at a jet and said go sit down and ill look at the engine. I sat down and put the kids in my lap.

He came and gave me the the two juiceboxes the flavours where Strawberry and Sweet Explosion. He gave my wife and me a glass each of the best champagne. I asked of the cost and said "Just for you ill give you everything for free" I gave my son and daughter some money and said give it to him and pointed at the chaffeur they gave him the money and from his pocket he pulled two lollipops one for each of my kids. And sneaked half of money back in my kids pocket.

AND OF WE WHERE!

ROMA ANNOUNCE NEW MANAGER

The former swedish Manchester United and AIK player Simon Gabriel has become manager of AS Roma. Who played most of his career on in attacking center midfield or the left flank. Playing his first match for Manchester United he got 2 assists but then got injuired because of a challenge going wrong. He then spent 9 months in come just to wake up to become AS Roma.

Gabriel has taken the job while many are rumuored out of the club like Gervinho, Mattia Destro, Bogdan Lobont, Marco Borriello, Gianluca Curci, Amara Konaté and Vasilis Torosidis when asked about it. He answered some will depart directly but all have worth so i will no more.

WEEKLY TRANSFER UPDATE

To Italy
Serie A
Salvatore Sirigu £3.3m PSG/Napoli
Fernando Gago £1.6m Boca/A.C.Milan
Bruno Pereirinha £775k Lazio/Verona

To England
Premier League
Sami Khedira £17m R.Madrid/Chelsea
Mateo Mussachio £11m Villareal/Arsenal
Josh Murphy £5.75m Norwich/Leicester
Sascha Horvath £725k Austria Wien/Manchester City
Ben Davies £625k Preston/Swansea

To Spain
LIGA BBVA
David Costas £1.3m Celta/Sevilla
Miguel De las Cuevas £575k Osasuna/Eibar

To France
Ligue 1
Juraj Kucka £1.2m Genoa/AS Saint-Etienne
Michael Krohn-Dehli £725k Celta/LOSC Lille
Nicolas De Préville £140k Reims/Troyes
Anthony Révilliére £0 Unattached/Montpellier

To Germany
Bundesliga
Joshua Kimmich £1m RB Leipzig/B.Dortmund
Marvin Stefaniak D.Dresden/Schalke 04

To Portugal
Primiera Liga
Joao Diogo £11.75k Martimo/Estoril

ROMA DEPART TWO STRIKERS

The two AS Roma strikers Mattia Destro and Marco Borrelio has gone to Chelsea for £15.25 and to Parma for £100k respectively. The Destro deal was 7.75m upfront and 7.5m spread over an unkwown number of years.

ROMA SIGN TWO MIDFIELDERS



Roma has signed two midfielders one a experinced one and the other a wonderkid. The two midfiedlers are PSGs Thiago Motta and Nantes Jordan Veretout signed for £1.2m and £6m respectively. The first mentioned needs no introduction, especcialy not to Italy. As he has played
for two teams in Serie A in Inter and Genoa. He has also got 23 caps for the national team and scored one in the mentioned games.

Thanks to Zed for making the image of Thiago Motta

Please go check out Zed´s story The Curios Case of Anji Makhachkala

Nice signings, I'm sure Motta will be a great leading player on your midfield!

A PRESEASON REVIEW

ROMA 1-4 Shakhtar
De Rossi 79
Simons Verdict: A defeat that looked no better on stats then the result. A focking disgrace!!!


New England 3-4 ROMA
Totti 15,25
Florenzi 30
Emanuelson 86
Simons Verdict: Okay for using a new tactic but not more.


Philadelpha Union 1-0 ROMA
Simons Verdict: We outclassed them in 90 minutes but they get one shot on target and it goes in thanks to a goalkeeper error.


ROMA 1-0 Manchester City
Totti 2
Simons Verdict: After this game i felt like we won the triple this was an outstanding achievement.


Union SG 3-4 ROMA
Leandro Paredes 11
Tony Sanabria 34,76
Ashley Cole 38
Simons Verdict: Great performance with weak squad because of injuries and letting youngsters play.


Colorado Rapids 1-0 ROMA
Simons Verdict: Just like the Philadelphia game we dominated and three shots on target to our nine.



New York Red Bulls 1-1 ROMA
Adem Ljalic (pen 50)
Great performance since our best players on field were Castan, Ljalic and half injuired De Sanctis

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUPS

GROUP A
Atletico Madrid
Paris-Saint-Germain
Sporting CP
Slovan Bratislava

GROUP B
Chelsea
Schalke 04
Ajax
Sparta Prague

GROUP C
SL Benfica
Juventus
Liverpool
Anderlecht

GROUP D
Barcelona
Shakhtar Donetsk
Borussia Dortmund
Stromsgodset

GROUP E
FC Porto
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Galatasaray
Celtic

GROUP F
Arsenal
Zenit
Olympiakos
Roma

GROUP G
Real Madrid
Manchester City
Napoli
AS Monaco

GROUP H
Bayern Munich
FC Basel
CSKA Moskva
FC Red Bull Salzburg

BBC SPORT PREDICTIONS

GROUP OF DEATH

Both C and E are extremly even but at BBC Sport we will say Group E

UPDATE

I changed tactic as it we didnt perform in preseason.

Roma 2-0 Verona Serie A
Thiago Motta 87
Francesco Totti 90+3


Atalanta 1-3 Roma Serie A
Thiago Motta 28
Adem Ljalic 49
Francesco Totti 79


Roma 2-1 Olympiakos
Ashley Cole (pen 58)
Davide Astori 68


Genoa 3-4 Roma
Francesco Totti 49,61,68
Juan Iturbe 90+1

Roma 0-4 Inter


Juventus 3-0 Roma


Arsenal 2-2 Roma
Adem Ljalic 50
Juan Iturbe 90+4

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TOTTI THE GOAL MACHINE

AS Romas Fransesco Totti has scored 9 in 7 games of AS Romas Serie A campaign following the 3-1 wins against Empoli and Udinese scoring two in both. When asked the question ´´Why´´ by BBC Sports journalists. He simply answered im 38 and not really in my prime so i cant understand why.

While Simon Gabriel is running out of praise to give Totti just keeps scoring. Another Roma player in form is Juan Iturbe with 2 goals and 4 assists in 7 games in the Serie A.

But Totti yet hasnt scored in Champions League. But asked the question he look determined to score against Zenit tommorow.

UPDATE

Empoli 1-3 Roma
Fransesco Totti 16,18
Juan Iturbe 28


Udinese 1-3 Roma
Fransesco Totti6, 27
Jordan Veretout 29


Zenit 2-2 Roma
Juan Iturbe 29
Alessandro Florenzi 70


Roma 1-1 Fiorentina
Fransesco Totti 76


Cagliari 4-3 Roma
Miralem Pjanic 20
Kostas Manolas 21
Fransesco Totti 76

ROMA FANS DISSAPOINTED IN LAST 9 GAMES

Only getting 2 wins in the last 9 games has caused many fans to blame manager. Winning aiganst Zenit and Chievo 2-1 4-2. Drawing aiganst Lazio, Arsenal, A.C Milan and Torino 2-2 1-1 1-1 0-0 and losing aiganst Napoli 1-3 Olympiakos 1-3 and Sampdoria 2-3 its not hard to understand why.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE RESULTS

GROUP A
1. Atletico Madrid
2. Sporting CP
3. Paris-Saint-Germain
4. Slovan Bratislava

GROUP B
1. Chelsea
2. Schalke 04
3. Sparta Prague
4. Ajax

GROUP C
1. Juventus
2. Liverpool
3. SL Benfica
4. Anderlecht

GROUP D
1. Barcelona
2. Shakhtar Donetsk
3. Borussia Dortmund
4. Stromsgodset

GROUP E
1. Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2. FC Porto
3. Celtic
4. Galatasaray


GROUP F
1. Roma
2. Zenit
3. Arsenal
4. Olympiakos

GROUP G
1. Manchester City
2. Real Madrid
3. Napoli
4. AS Monaco

GROUP H
1.Bayern Munich
2.CSKA Moskva
3.FC Basel
4.FC Red Bull Salzburg

Liking this so far mate !! Shame to see Destro go but hopefully Totti can keep his goal scoring ways up!