Summer 2013 Ritiro

Here's the squad list as of today:

Balzaretti
Borriello
Bradley
Burdisso
Caprari
Castan
Crescenzi
Dodò
Florenzi (as of July 11)
Julio Sergio
Lamela (as of July 10)
Lobont
Marquinho
Marquinhos
Osvaldo
Pjanic
Romagnoli
Taddei
Tallo
Torosidis
Totti
Verre

De Rossi will join the team later given his extended vacation following the Confederations Cup. Good to see Crescenzi, Verre and Caprari get a shot, as well as Tallo. The two surprise inclusions are Osvaldo and Borriello, with Rudi Garcia wanting to take a look at the latter prior to selling him. Also, no mention of Destro, but I believe he'll be joining the team at the same time as Florenzi following their U-21 Euro.

Here's hoping Crescenzi does well enough this year. Could use some depth at RB on the real.

Yup, he could play both flanks, so I'm hoping we sign a strong RB to bump Torosidis and have Crescenzi, Dodo and Balzaretti on the left. I'm taking a step back from my original desire of shipping out Dodo and getting a strong full back on each flank, looks like that won't happen.

Dodo is a decent backup. Kid has some talent. And so would be Crescenzi. But I would like him to be a backup for a decent RB, not Torosidis. Toro isnt CL material, no way.

Totti arrived in his Smart to Trigoria Thats just funny

Toro was thrown into the deep end of the Roman pool midseason and did as well as could be asked. I think he deserves a shot at the RB spot.

After this past season though, I refuse to believe Dodo's a defender. He's a wing-back and even that's generous. He's more a LM than a LB. We need the latter and not the former so he should go out on loan.

McLewis wrote:Toro was thrown into the deep end of the Roman pool midseason and did as well as could be asked. I think he deserves a shot at the RB spot.

After this past season though, I refuse to believe Dodo's a defender. He's a wing-back and even that's generous. He's more a LM than a LB. We need the latter and not the former so he should go out on loan.

Completely agree. Taddei is also on his way out, while Marquinho could serve as an emergency option at LB.

 I think neither dodo or Balza are good enough as starters , Balza doesn't know how to cross the ball and better defensively and dodo is not a footballer he has to switch his sport to sprinting ,(He chose the right stadium) , dodo needs to go on loan and Roma needs to get a Left back to start and use Balza as back up