When Roma appointed Gian Piero Gasperini as the club’s new manager earlier this summer, many fans were drooling at the prospect of combining Gasperini’s aggressive tactics with Roma’s financial largesse (compared to Atalanta, anyway). After all, Gasp turned the Bergamo-based club into a perennial winner on a relatively smaller budget. It was a match made in heaven, and while it may still fulfill all our dreams, the first transfer window of the Gasperini-Massara era has frustrated many fans.
Waylaid
by everything from transfer formulas, total costs, agents’ fees, and players’ indecision, nothing has gone smoothly during Massara’s first summer in charge. Still, the simple fact that the club retained talents like Mile Svilar, Matías Soulé, Evan Ndicka, and Manu Koné should be considered a win, to say nothing of getting potential stars in Wesley and Evan Ferguson.
But now that the dust has settled on the 2025 summer transfer window, let’s compile the comings and goings (first-team players only).
Outgoing Transfers
- Enzo Le Fée (Sold to Sunderland for €23M)
- Samuel Dahl (Sold to Benfica for €9M)
- Nicola Zalewski (Sold to Inter for €17M)
- Leandro Paredes (Sold to Boca Jrs for €3M)
- Eldor Shomurodov (Loaned to Basaksehir with option to buy)
- Tammy Abraham (Loaned to Besiktas, €13M option already triggered)
- Ola Solbakken (Sold to Nordsjaelland for €950K)
- Saul Abdulhamid (Loaned to Lens with option to buy)
- Anass Salah-Eddine (Loaned to PSV Eindhoven with option to buy)
- Marash Kumbulla (Loaned to Mallorca with an option to buy)
Incoming Transfers
- Wesley (Purchased from Flamengo for €25M)
- Neil El Aynaoui (Purchased from Lens for €23.5M)
- Jan Ziolkowski (Purchased from Legia Warsaw for €6.6M
- Leon Bailey (Loaned from Aston Villa, option to buy)
- Evan Ferguson (Loaned from Brighton, option to buy)
- Daniele Ghilardi (Loaned from Hellas Verona, obligation to buy under certain conditions)
- Devis Vásquez (Free transfer from AC Milan)
- Konstantinos Tsimikas (Season-long loan from Liverpool)
And with that, the summer transfer window comes to a merciful end. Check back later this week for our roundtable recap of all the wheelings, dealings, misses, and remaining needs.
