Awar, the entry is awesome. Is it enough to win the place?

signals. Just over a month ago, on June 11, Houssam Aour introduced himself to Roma by releasing the first interview on Roma’s social channels in perfect Italian with French nuances. “I really started studying it out of respect for the club that bought me and its fans,” explained the 25-year-old former Lyon midfielder, who signed for the Giallorossi on a free agent basis. It was a move that was an indication of great intelligence and availability, if you think about it – two or three years after their arrival – there are still many players in Serie A who don’t get interviews in Italian. But it is clear that the performance on the field is the real test of the quality of the arrival, and from this point of view, the first days of the French-Algerian midfielder’s career bode well. And to prove it, among other things, the compliments he received on social media from Praetorian Jose Mourinho, Nemanja Matic, who distributed the compliments to his new partner after a training match.

There will be a need, because on paper the road to Alawar is not a downhill one. Finding space in a midfield section where two totems are safe (Matic and Cristant, plus baby Bove on the launchpad) and in three-quarters contracted for Pellegrini and Dybala – not counting the quality of the on-and-off midfielder (one between Sabitzer and Renato Sanchez, perhaps) – It’s not easy. Among other things, it stunned the social position of Special One who – he put his chalkboard photo in Trigoria – as the first substitute for Matic, these days, put baby Pagano and only after Alaouar. A case or a message? Waiting to discover this, Houssem is trying to place himself in the center of the Romanian village, taking advantage of the absence of international players, who will only return on Monday. If talent equals diversity in languages, Aouar could be half as phenomenal.