These days, the love of a t-shirt rarely trumps the temptation of money. Players see football more as a business and less of a feeling.
Fortunately, this is not the case for everyone. This is how he presented it Lorenzo Pellegrini in an unusual situation where he passed an absolute honesty test. The captain of the ‘wolf’ receives a prank call from a ‘Mediaset’ journalist posing as a mediator from Arabia.
At that call they offered him a juicy sum of money in exchange for leaving Rome and joining the Saudi Pro League. The response was applauded by all Roma fans, who were proud to be a captain.
”I don’t care, I feel good and I’m happy to play for my city team”, his response to the “proposal”. A few seconds later they offered him a contract of 30 million the player said: “Thirty million? It is not suitable for me. I am not interested”.
Roma, in the middle of the fight for the Europa League and to enter the Champions League
The season of the capital team was not good under José Mourinho, as his figure led to a division in the locker room. Some love him very much and others don’t. That conflict ended up being reflected on the field of play and the results did not come. With the arrival of De Rossi, who knows the club like the back of his hand, everything got better.
In Serie A they began to climb the positions until they reached fifth place, which would give them access to the Champions League. While in Europe, they went through the rounds until reaching the semi-finals, a stage where Xabi Alonso’s undefeated Bayer Leverkusen awaited. In that decisive rivalry was Lorenzo Pellegrini, who with the help of De Rossi regained the honors he had lost in the last months of Mourinho, where he faced each other.
Source: La Verdad
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