Spalletti Tips Hat To Inter AS Roma coach Luciano Spalletti has conceded that it will take something very special for his team to overhaul white-hot

With just one loss this season, the second-placed Giallorossi are having a strong campaign by any measure. They still find themselves seven points behind the defending champions, however, who are yet to lose a single game this campaign and have shown no signs of letting up.


"It's clear that it's going to be very hard to catch Inter," admitted Spalletti. "We will not give up but we must applaud what others do.

"If Inter continue to win and we are unable to catch them, we can only compliment them for their excellent campaign.

"But in order to reach Inter's level, we would need at least two or three top players."

Spalletti's concluding sentence was a thinly veiled message to the capital club's directors, who have yet to bring in a single new recruit this winter, choosing instead to concentrate all their efforts on convincing Amantino Mancini to stay on board. At least it appears that all their hard work in this regard will pay off, as the latest reports from Rome suggest that the Brazilian winger will put pen-to-paper on a new deal despite being heavily courted by the likes of Liverpool, Lyon and Manchester City.
Roma play host to Catania on Sunday, but without their inspirational skipper Francesco Totti who has come down with a nasty bout of the flu. Inter, in the meanwhile, entertain relegation threatened Parma.