Disagree about Roma and the fact that they screwed up in Serie A. What position would you like them to take? First? Second? On what basis? There are the big four and all the others. Lazio was able to force out Milan (and by the way, Roma still has a chance to overtake Milan), but in general, you see the usual picture. I would say that Roma performed at a decent level and took its rightful place. If we take into account reaching the final of the Europa League, then this is already a successful season in any case. Given that this is the second European Cup final in a row, this is a super-successful season. It seems to me that when you talk about Roma, you forget that apart from the top coach, everything else there is of an average level. It's nothing more than Brighton, Villarreal or something like that.
No, we actually agree much more than you think. Read
my post here. You are right that the standings right now are ok and it is not like Roma *** up and is at the bottom of the table, but they played a very good first half of the season and I thought that they are probably going to set some goals higher than 7th rank, which gives them nothing. They had 37 points after 19 games and were 1 point behind 2nd rank. It looked great for them.
When you want to make progress with the club you do need some results and also qualification for the international tournament. It is helping financially, but also when you want to convince a coach like Mourinho to stay or new players to come to your club. This makes it much harder and that is why I said the season would have a bad ending after they started so well.
I mean do you think that Mourinho would spend a year at Roma without any European tournaments? I don't know, I am not sure about that. But winning the final now would help them a lot with many things.
In general, I fully agree with you. Before the season started nobody was expecting from Roma to finish the season in the Champions League qualifier rankings, let alone 1st rank.
It is similar to Arsenal's performance in the Premier League. When you are on a good way and then start failing, even when you finish the season quite well, you are disappointed. I think that's normal and Roma players would not be happy if they lose the final and miss the qualifiers in Serie A.