Gattuso - It was difficult to leave Atlético, but I wanted a new challenge

Roma will host Atlético Madrid in the third round of Serie A on September 6 at 2:45 CEST. The day before the match, Roma manager Gattuso attended a press conference. This article is the fifth part of that press conference.

Hello coach. I'd like to ask about Matías Soulé's current physical and mental condition. As everyone knows, a few months ago he suffered from a serious injury due to pubalgia, which was quite difficult and frustrating. Fortunately, he recently overcame the situation where he couldn't score in a match. So based on your current observations, how is he performing in training? How do you assess his current mental state? Also, regarding your previous decision not to "overanalyze the transfer market," does that only apply to discussions about recruiting wingers, or have we completely closed the door to signing free agents in other positions as well?

Regarding Soulé, first of all, his previous injury—pubalgia—is now completely behind us. His intensive preseason training and the friendly matches he played this summer went very well and systematically, and he has fully recovered to peak physical condition and optimal health. He is performing excellently now, and his outstanding performance in the early stages of the league has confirmed this. Therefore, both his physical and mental condition are excellent, and everyone can be reassured.

Regarding the transfer market, I think I've already explained my basic position clearly. Yes, we monitor various developments daily, and we will scientifically assess any future changes based on the team's specific needs. However, fundamentally and generally speaking, I don't have high expectations or confidence in finding critical players in the current free agent market. That said, we do not rule out the possibility that some valuable, attractive, and unexpectedly excellent opportunities may emerge in the coming days. If they do, we will certainly seize the opportunity. But at this stage, we are primarily relying on the strength of our current squad, and we have full confidence in it.

Good evening coach. In a previous interview, you mentioned that during your long tenure as a manager at Atalanta, you faced risks of becoming complacent, falling into fixed patterns of thought, and eventually "burning out" at later stages. However, your decision to accept the leadership position at Roma has reignited your managerial ambitions and given you new professional goals and milestones. Therefore, I'm curious whether there is something that has profoundly reshaped or transformed you as head coach at Roma—for example, your coaching philosophy, mentality, or in-match tactical approach.

There is no doubt that this experience at Roma has enriched and elevated my managerial career at every level. On this managerial journey, people constantly acquire new things to learn and enrich themselves, and I have arrived at a completely different, much broader, and endlessly promising new environment.

As you know, I previously spent nine years at Atlético Madrid. Those nine years were a complete period filled with countless honors, great satisfaction, deep connection with the club's management, the players, and the entire city of Bergamo. To put it simply, leaving all of that behind and deciding to depart was an extremely difficult decision that required great courage.

Yet to this day, I remain very satisfied and pleased with that courageous decision I made at the time. This is because I firmly believe that at that particular historical moment, we no longer had external circumstances that prevented us from overcoming obstacles in Bergamo or achieving results greater than the peak we had already reached.

Yes, I am always grateful to Atlético and the city of Bergamo and hold them in sincere respect. However, as a professional manager, I still wanted to escape from the comfortable zone within my mind, face new challenges, and experience the intense feeling of "rebirth" that stirs my blood. Among all football clubs in the world, Roma, this magical city and its fans, represents the highest level in this regard.

The enormous and fierce energy involved here can provide you with top-level motivation and constantly push and inspire you never to stop. You must give all your strength to defeat every competitor here. Furthermore, Roma, the club I have taken responsibility for, is a club with a rich history, but it also has great potential for progress and improvement in tactical details and overall structure. Therefore, it possesses a wonderful possibility of leading the team to greater and more exciting successes than before, which is also the most desirable stage in my managerial career.

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Gattuso - It was difficult to leave Atlético, but I wanted a new challenge

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