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Rome – Roma President James Pallotta response to the former athletic director Monchi Monday, after the Spaniard accused the American of leaving the Serie A club earlier this month.
Pallotta said on the official website of his club that he was surprised that Monchi, of his first name Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo, told the press that he had left Rome because "the president (Pallotta) wanted to go on the right, I wanted to go left "after returning to Seville less than two years after arriving in Rome, snubbing an offer from the Premier League club, Arsenal.
"I want to clarify something very clear, from the beginning I was very clear on the direction in which I wanted us to go and that is why we spent a lot of money doing come Monchi, "said Pallotta.
"I gave him 100% control to appoint the coach he wanted, to use the badistant coaches and the performance staff, to manage the screenings and to bring in the players that he If you look at our results and performance, it's clear that it did not work. "
Monchi, 50, has left the stuttering capital club in the wake of the dismissal of coach Eusebio Di Francesco, which came after the loss to Porto and his local rivals, Lazio, who had excluded them from the Champions League and struggled to qualify for the competition next season.
Roma are fifth in the A series, four points behind AC Milan, to last place in the Champions League after losing 2-1 against SPAL this weekend.
It was the last defeat of a disappointing season that prevented the Roma from reaching the UEFA Champions League semi-finals last year after selling several key players this summer, including goalkeeper Allison, now in Liverpool.
"In November … I asked Monchi his plan B if the situation continued to worsen.He was sole responsible for the football operations in Rome but he had no plan B" said Pallotta.
"Please, let me know what Monchi wanted to do differently? We gave him total control and now we … risk not going into the Top 3 for the first time since 2014. "
Roma have appointed Claudio Ranieri, a coach of Roman origin, to save a season that is about to slip, but who still has to name his successor in Monchi.
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