De Rossi

[squirtyflower]

ROBERTO MANCINI is poised to go back in for Daniele De Rossi with an £8million bid in January.
Manchester City boss Mancini was blaming a lack of midfielders after seeing his side blow a 2-0 lead in Sunday's draw at Fulham.
And now he is set to return for Roma's Italian international when the transfer window reopens in January.
Mancini fancied anchorman De Rossi in the summer but City's paymasters were keen to balance the books after signing Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri for a combined £59m.
But SunSport understands Mancini has received encouraging signals from his Italian contacts that tough-tackling De Rossi, out of contract next year, is refusing to sign a new deal — and that he has had his head turned by City.
Roma put a £25m price tag on the player and in the summer Mancini said: "De Rossi would be absolutely perfect.I rate him one of the best midfielders in the world."
It was previously thought De Rossi would never leave the Italian capital but Roma are refusing to be held to ransom over his demands for £170,000 a week.

SunSport raking over old stories to have a couple of digs, although they are subtle for the Sun

 

[southern muppet]

£8m would be a great deal to say the least. It's The Sun though.

 

[lionheart]

As sure as eggs are eggs, we will have to pay atleast 15 million for him.

 

[alky313]

Pretty easy bargaining chip here, we either sign him to a pre contract or Roma can get a few million pounds in the deal in January.

 

[Jumanji]

I hope De Rossi doesn't like the new Roma manager :D (He's at Inter now)

 

[Chris21240]

another defensive midfielder! is that a joke :O

 

[adamgregory]

another defensive midfielder! is that a joke :O

Mancini said a while back that he wanted another midfielder. Look at recent weeks, NDJ injured, Milner injured, we were left with Yaya and Barry. If anything would have happened to either of them then we were seriously down on midfielders. Just glad Milner and NDJ are both fit again. De Rossi is a quality player and hopefully we can get him on the cheap.

 

[pee dubya]

another defensive midfielder! is that a joke :O

He's not a just defensive midfielder though, i've watched games where he's been Roma's most attacking threat, he can pass, shoot, finish, has good feet, can break into the box Lampard style (something we lack a bit).

He's a leader, tactically aware and responsible, and a winner. I think he'd be perfect for our midfield, we lack assertiveness in there at times (if De Jong is missing especially), provided he adapted to English football, he'd definitely improve the team.

I like Barry and i'd keep him around, but he's getting older and i'd rather not rely on him starting almost every match. Especially when we come up against the best opposition i think he struggles to cope.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

If we can get him for under 15 mill and a pacy winger our squad would be complete.

 

[stavros]

we need a sriker as well in my opinion.
if we can somehow get somebody versatile who can play on the wing or up front, that would be ideal