Roma eye Brugge winger Carlos Forbs as Gasperini seeks attacking option

Roma are among the clubs most interested in Club Brugge winger Carlos Forbs, according to the Belgian outlet Voetbalnieuws, as sporting director D'Amico looks to add an attacking winger for Gian Piero Gasperini in January. Before Roma's match against Sassuolo, D'Amico admitted he wanted to give Gasperini an attacking winger in the January window and had already started looking for the right profile. Alongside Bynoe-Gittens and Endrick, whose names were already known, Forbs has emerged as a serious target. The Portuguese winger is ready for the next step in his career, and his departure from Club Brugge in the summer is described as practically certain. A move in January is more complicated, but D'Amico could still open talks early to get ahead of the competition. Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Fiorentina are also tracking the 2004-born player. This season, Forbs has scored 5 goals and provided 8 assists in 14 appearances across the league and the Champions League.

Turkish newspaper Sozcu reported that Francesco Totti had taken a consultancy role in the sporting area at Fenerbahce, claiming he had met the club's president in Istanbul the previous day to discuss the details. Fenerbahce have firmly rejected the story, and the claims are not true, according to the club's official statement. According to the club's account, Totti is currently in Kuwait, and a stop in Istanbul was only a stopover during his journey. There was no meeting with the president and no agreement with Fenerbahce. The club issued a harsh official statement calling the report completely without foundation, and it criticised the media outlets that spread the reports without first verifying them. The Sozcu story was headlined "The football mind of Fenerbahce" and was subsequently picked up by other news organisations citing the same newspaper. Fenerbahce's statement, published on 9 November 2026, asked those outlets to act in line with journalistic principles and a sense of responsibility. Totti spent his entire playing career at Roma, from 1992 to 2017, scoring 307 goals, and his number 10 shirt has been retired by the club.

Fenerbahçe have strongly denied a Turkish press report that Francesco Totti is set to take a role in the club's football structure, calling the story "completely unfounded". The denial followed a report by the Turkish newspaper Sözcü, published on 9 November 2026 under the headline "The footballing mind of Fenerbahçe", which other outlets then picked up. In an official statement, the Istanbul club urged media organisations that had spread what it called false news without verifying it to act in line with the principles of journalism and a sense of responsibility. The original Sözcü report had claimed that the former Roma captain was very close to an operational role at Fenerbahçe, a club preparing a deep reorganisation of its sporting structure. According to that account, Totti had arrived in Istanbul the day before, where he was reportedly welcomed by the club's executives. Fenerbahçe president Aziz Yıldırım, who returned to lead the club last June, reportedly intended to renew the sporting organisation during the international break and ahead of the January transfer window. The proposed position was described as a football consultant, a figure who would contribute to sporting decisions and the building of the new project, rather than a purely ceremonial post. Details of any agreement had not been made public. The story carries particular weight given Totti's history with Roma. He played his whole career at the club until his retirement in 2017, then took a management role at Trigoria that ended with his resignation in 2019. A possible return to the club has been discussed several times since, without a definitive agreement being reached. A few weeks ago, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, Totti said: "If they need my knowledge of football, I am here", making clear he did not want a purely symbolic role. Totti has built several football-related ventures in the meantime, including CT10, a sports consultancy and management company, and It Scouting, an international scouting project. Those experiences could prove useful in any new Fenerbahçe structure, according to the report. The Sözcü story remains an unconfirmed rumour, and the club's statement has now firmly rejected it.