The day after the end of the transfer market window, Edin Dzeko has been reinstated and trained with the rest of his teammates after missing the last two matches and practicing on his own for ten days following an argument with Paulo Fonseca in the Coppa Italia tilt against Spezia, Corriere dello Sport reports.
The Roma front office set up multiple deals to try parting ways with their highest paid player during the past week, with a swap with Inter involving Alexis Sanchez being the most concrete option on the table, but they could not pull off the sale and will now look to facilitate a truce between the manager and the forward.
Dzeko has not featured since the squabble as he has been outright excluded from the squad list for the following two games against Spezia in Serie A and Verona. The gaffer has refused to weigh in publicly on the matter, simply justifying the absence with a knock two weeks ago and then shutting down the questions about the striker after that.
While Borja Mayoral has performed pretty well in relief, scoring three goals in the last two contests, the Giallorossi are going to be shot-handed up front in Saturday’s clash with Juventus as Lorenzo Pellegrini will be absent due to yellow-card accumulation and Pedro is trying to recover from a thigh injury that has sidelined him for the past two tilts. The returning Stephan El Shaarawy practiced on the side today as he has not played in months and he has been dealing with COVID for the last three weeks.