AS Roma - Return of the Roman Empire

The Golden Era

Roma returned to form in the 2000s, starting the decade in great style by winning their third ever Serie A title in 2000–01; the scudetto was won on the last day of the season by beating Parma 3–1, edging out Juventus by two points.[6] The club's captain, Francesco Totti was a large reason for the title victory and he would become one of the main heroes in the club's history,[19] going on to break several club records.[19] Other important players during this period included Aldair, Cafu, Gabriel Batistuta, and Vincenzo Montella.[23]
The club attempted to defend the title in the following season but ended as runners-up to Juventus by just one point.[6] This would be the start of Roma finishing as runners-up many times in both Serie A and Coppa Italia during the 2000s; they lost out 4–2 to AC Milan in the Coppa Italia final of 2003[15] and lost out to Milan again by finishing second in Serie A for the 2003–04 season.[6] The club also re-capitalized several time in 2003–04 season. In November 2003 €37.5 million was injected by "Roma 2000" to cover the half-year loss and loss carried from previous year.[24] and again on 30 June for €44.57 million.[25] Through stock market, a further €19.850 million of new shares issued, and at the year end, the share capital was €19.878 million,[26] which unchanged as of 2011. The following season also saw the departure of Walter Samuel for €25 million and Emerson for €28 million, which decreased the strength of the squad, thus Giallorossi finished as the eighth place, one of the worst of recent season.


Francesco Totti, current captain, with the 2007–08 Coppa Italia
A Serie A scandal was revealed during 2006 and Roma were one of the teams not involved; after punishments were handed out, Roma was re-classified as runners-up for 2005–06;[27] the same season in which they finished second in the Coppa Italia losing to Internazionale.[15] In the two following seasons, 2006–07 and 2007–08, Roma finished as Serie A runners-up, meaning that in the 2000s Roma have finished in the top two positions more than any other decade in their history[28] Meanwhile in the UEFA Champions League during both of these seasons, they reached the quarter-finals before going out to Manchester United. Despite the sloppy start in UEFA Champions League 2008–09, Roma managed to reach the knockout stage ahead of Chelsea in their group, thus finishing for the first time in their history as winners of the group stage. However, the Giallorossi would lose to Arsenal in the knockout stage on penalty kicks, ending their Champions League campaign.
After a disappointing start to the 2009–10 season, Claudio Ranieri replaced Luciano Spalletti as head coach. At the time of the switch, Roma lay bottom of the Serie A table after losses to Juventus and Genoa. Despite this setback, Roma would later embark on an incredible unbeaten streak of 24 matches in the league – with the last of the 24 being a 2–1 win over rivals Lazio, whereby Roma came from 1–0 down at half-time to defeat their city rivals after Ranieri courageously substituted both Totti and De Rossi at the interval.[29] The Giallorossi were on top of the table at one point, before a loss to U.C. Sampdoria later in the season. Roma would finish runners-up to Inter yet again in both Serie A and the Coppa Italia. This rounded out a highly successful decade in Roma's history, following somewhat mediocre results of the 1990s. During the 2000s, Roma had finally recaptured the Scudetto, two Coppa Italia trophies, and their first two Supercoppa Italiana titles. Other notable contributions to the club's history have included a return to the UEFA Champions League Quarter-finals (in the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 editions) since 1984, six runners up positions in the league, four Coppa Italia finals and three Supercoppa finals – marking Roma's greatest ever decade

Since the end of this era Roma have been somewhat of a transitional club with no clear direction. With the club promoting youngsters from within they have became a transitional club however there transfer policy has been somewhat suspect with them buying either european flops or older players and not investing in youth. Aswell as this they havent had a consistant manager leading to more inconsistancy within the club.

This has led to club Legend Batistuta returning to become the saviour of the club



Below will be the system i will be playing. This is one i came up with whilst playing with Lorient in Ligue 1 with a lesser side which worked well and got me upto 6th in one season and hopefully will work here.

The stratergy is quick one touch passing, emphasisng width on the pitch aswell as flooding midfield whilst providing support for attack and defence



And as you can see there are some clear changes within the Squad. I decided that i wanted youth in and to cut down on wages aswell as creating my own stamp on the squad which has upset some of the ultras.

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Will be interesting to see how you do with Roma. As an hardcore Giallorossi fan I hope you will bring them to the elite of world's football, although I'm a huge fan of both De Rossi and Pjanic and to see you've sold them both is a bit disappointing. But, I've to say the cash you got for them is very good.