You are right about that, a friendly game is very useful for the technical directors to see how their players are doing, even those who are a doubt for them and keep them on the bench, I think it is a way of seeing that they can use them in the best way, This is what the friendlies are for and also to see how connected they are within the team and if they are mentally and physically well prepared for a high-level football team
these friendly games are only for the teams to comply with the regulations that have been imposed, for the teams the friendly games are a great risk to put their main players because they can suffer some injury during the friendly game and that would cause problems when the team would do something league game, for example in cases where the team is at the top of the league, this team will not put its good players for a friendly game, but as it has to comply with the rules, the teams put players from team B to play, but they are not doing this with the aim of testing their players and being placed in the A team
then if we are going to compare ourselves to Roma, obviously a game that has to be being friendly will not show their true level, especially with a technical director like Mou who always has many Aces up his sleeve.
in fact it can even show the level of the team, if a team has good players in the B team too, then that team is very strong, they can be strong in the A team and in the B team and also winning in the friendly matches is always a good thing because this shows that the coach even playing with team A is very competent to the point of winning the game even in that condition
And some of the speculations that you see are:
Sources Say Roma Could Include Bove and Volpato in Frattesi TransferDespite not being fierce rivals on the pitch, Roma and Sassuolo have a rather unique relationship. While the powers that be grapple with whether or not to allow top-flight clubs to have B-teams in lower leagues, Roma has used Sassuolo as a veritable petri dish over the past decade. From failed prospects like Luca Antei to success stories like Lorenzo Pellegrini, Roma has farmed out a lot of talent to Sassuolo over the years.
And the latest name coming off that production line is former Roma academy graduate Davide Frattesi. Like Pellegrini before him, Frattesi was the jewel of the Giallorossi academy, but economic forces conspired in the summer of 2017, forcing Roma to sell Frattesi to Sassuolo, though they were smart enough to retain a 30% future sell-on fee.
Source:
https://www.chiesaditotti.com/2022/12/25/23525928/sources-say-roma-could-include-bove-and-volpato-in-frattesi-transferRoma need to go to the market and hire good players for their attack, if they don't make some changes in the team then even mourinho will leave rome, it's not possible to stay in a team that doesn't fight for the title, they just keep playing, mourinho and a coach likes to win things, the way rome is they have no chance of winning the serie A and high level european competitions
in order for Juve or Ac Milan to catch up, one of them has to get back real strong and Napoli has to lose their strength that they started with, this scenario is difficult to happen, it would be a really big surprise for me if Napoli won't win the league by the end of this season.
We can determine whether napoli will be quite consistent during the rest of matches in serie a or not after we will be seeing the result between napoli against intermilan. that will become a very important match that will make another team try to observer whether napoli has lose its strength in serie a or it will keep continue to dominate the league for this season. it's quite difficult to find a club by just seeing from the result of friendly match. Napoli needs to prove it against intermilan. If napoli will win easily and no chance for another team to take scudetto
even if napoli loses against Inter, that's not enough to determine that they won't be champions, there are many games, and in those many games, inter can lose points against weak teams and napoli can gain points against weak teams, the only advantage that Napoli has to beat inter and just that they would have more points and distance even more from all teams, but beating inter does not guarantee that they will be champions