Edoardo Bove's agent Tavano says Souloukou and Ghisolfi have shown the player the door at Roma, and calls it a shame because Bove grew up at the club. Tavano said: “I think it’s a shame because he grew up at Roma. He is at a very high level, because if the Tunisian national team, which is not the last of national teams, not at all, has already called him up to the senior side, it means we are talking about an absolute talent. So it’s not so much about The Guardian, which are newspapers after all, but it’s about the pitch. It will be Roma who decide what to do and how to protect themselves in that sense, with the utmost respect for the choices. So we are not polemicising, of course. I am, I repeat, biased since I am his agent, but objectively there is data telling us this boy has significant potential. So it’s a shame if things don’t go the right way.”
The agent’s comments came as he discussed Roma’s start to the season under Gian Piero Gasperini and the idea that Inter are the club’s rivals in the title picture. Tavano said he sees Inter more as the anti-Roma, adding that it is his impression. He moved on to Gasperini, whom he has known for years.
Tavano said: “Look, I see Inter more as the anti-Roma! That’s my impression. On Gasperini you’re preaching to the converted. Out of the despair of losing Mourinho, because in my opinion Mister Mourinho, for a thousand reasons, could have been the right man for a city like Rome, with the arrival of Mister Gasperini, whom I knew very well, because my first strong player, the one who opened the door to this world for me a little, is Sebastien De Maio, who was created by Gasperini. Sebastien was very important for Gasperini in changing and reaching what is his total football, this total pressure across the pitch. During a Genoa-Juventus match he asked Seba to follow Llorente everywhere, and did the same with Burdisso on Tevez. They won 1-0 from there, and he decided to bring the attackers into the whole pitch, that is, the defenders. A bit like what you see now. You see the defenders arriving from the other side of the pitch. For me Gasperini is a coach who is not a discovery and is not burning through stages, because, among other things, in my opinion, at Trigoria, at Roma, in Rome, you need coaches with this personality, like Mourinho, like Gasperini. So it doesn’t surprise me. He is an extremely strong coach, and let’s hope we keep doing well.”
Testo Originale / Source Text
“La decisione spetta alla Roma.“Penso sia un peccato perché lui è cresciuto nella Roma. È ad un livello molto alto, perché se la Nazionale tunisina, che non è l’ultima delle nazionali, tutt’altro, lo ha convocato già per la Nazionale maggiore, vuol dire che stiamo parlando di un talento assoluto.…”
Read the full article in Italian at Forza Roma.
