Ex-Roma defender Christian Panucci: “De Rossi’s sacking is nonsensical.”

Former Roma defender Christian Panucci debated Roma’s decision to fire Daniele De Rossi.

On the occasion of the Mediolanum Padel Cup in Pescara, where he played padel with Vincent Candela, Gianluca Zambrotta and Gigi di Biagio, Panucci expressed his opinion on the dismissal of the former Giallorossi coach Daniele De Rossi.

“Daniele’s dismissal was a bad decision from a club perspective. You make a long-term investment in a coach, you build the transfer market with him and after just a few days, what do you do? You fire him. It makes no sense.”

“It’s a club where, for example, there’s a sporting director who has never been introduced. The management knows little about Roma. I’m especially sorry for De Rossi’s manner, in this way everything is made more complicated. Alex Ferguson took seven years to win a trophy, but we fire coaches without giving them time. Football like this is full of bitterness.”

“I’m in love with Roma and that’s why I sometimes talk about it in such a ‘direct’ way, because I’m a fan: if I were a director I would have pointed out the senselessness of this situation.”

“The coach must be defended and supported, but in the club it seems to me that there are few people who know how to play football.”

According to Panucci, however, it is wrong to connect De Rossi’s dismissal to Juric’s arrival: ”He is a man of character and can please the fans. He must understand the environment in which he is settling, but I believe he has quality and it is certainly not his fault if De Rossi was dismissed.”