When In Rome

AS Roma. Owners of the single greatest Twitter admin on the face of this earth. Champions League Semi-Finalists last season, 3rd in the League. Overall, Roma are not a club who, on the face of it, have any major problems, and in the main, that's why I've chosen them for this adventure - a solid base, but still massive scope for development.

My aim for this save is obviously to bring the Scudetto back to the red half of Rome, and to bring the club as much European and Domestic success as possible. However that all seems far too straightforward, so I'm going to add a bit of extra spice

I can only sign Italian players, or players who have come through the youth intakes of Italian clubs.

This means no South American wonderkids, no trawling the world for the best young players. I've got to make our youth system and our domestic scouting system work for us, and really concentrate on developing our youngsters within our own playing identity.

Overall, this is going to be quite an open ended save, but my main goals include:

1. Winning the Scudetto
2. Winning the Champions League
3. Winning the Double
4. Field a team of entirely Homegrown Players
5. Win the League with a squad that is at least 75% Homegrown
6. Win the Champions League with a squad that is at least 75% Homegrown

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Get in I am glad your doing a story I am def following this

Welcome back! Roma have produced some great talents in the past; so hopefully we'll be seeing some top players in this story.

YES!

This is gonna be interesting to say the least, hopefully the youth system turns out some gems quickly!

This year's transfer window was an eventful one for Roma, losing Alisson to Liverpool, while strengthening with no less than £90m worth of players to add some real quality to the squad. Given that I'm restricted to signing only Italian players, I wasn't intending to add much to that number, however my had was forced in the Window, and we've made a few additions:-

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Overall I'm very pleased with our signings, and it was good to see the new players really clicking in pre-season, as we picked up 4 wins in 4 away from home as part of our training camp.

Viterbase 0-3 Roma
Javier Pastore, Umberto Oranto (og), Lorenzo Pellegrini
Lorenzo Pellegrini

Brescia 0-1 Roma
Davide Santon
Cengiz Ünder

Avellino 0-8 Roma
Edin Dzeko (2), Cengiz Ünder (2), Lorenzo Pellegrini, Daniele De Rossi, Aleksandar Kolarov, Steven Nzonzi
Cengiz Ünder

Latina 0-4
Ante Coric, Brian Cristante, Cengiz Ünder, Lorenzo Pellegrini
Brian Cristante

Interesting signings, I'm looking forward to learning about Romagna and Luperto in particular. A good pre-season against albeit weaker teams, but hopefully will give the players a confidence boost heading into the season.

Big money spent on some young Italian stars! You have a solid base to work with there now, when you also consider Luca & Lorenzo Pellegrini are very promising players too, and with de Rossi & Florenzi as idols to follow.

Cutrone is an absolute steal at £23m! To bag him from one of your rivals for those top spots in Serie A is some serious negotiating!