Rome, Smalling risks jumping: there is no OK from the League

The Giallorossi club and the player’s entourage are safe: contract deposited in time. But there is still no official confirmation

When everything seemed over, yellow. In the late afternoon, Roma closed the Smalling deal with Manchester United, contracts signed and everyone’s satisfaction. The Giallorossi club would have sent the email to the Lega with the contract filed a few minutes before 20 (19.55) but there are no official confirmations. And on the Lega website itself, the Smalling contract does not yet appear among today’s contracts. In Trigoria, the Roma executives are still all in the office, convinced that the documents are in order (the same goes for Smalling’s entourage), but the official status is not yet there. And in all of this, the defender is expected in Rome tomorrow.

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THE FIGURES

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If everything is released positively, Smalling, after a season on loan, will return to Rome permanently and will cost the Giallorossi club fifteen million payable in four years. To him a contract worth three million per season plus bonuses. With his arrival, among other things, Fonseca will have the defender he had put at the top of his wish list since last winter. And even Dzeko, who had even given Smalling the captain’s armband in the game a few weeks after his arrival in Rome, maybe he will find the smile he lost in recent weeks.

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