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Summer Freebies: A Look at Some Remaining Free Agents

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The good life, let's go on a living spree

Shit, they say the best things in the life are free!

Kanye has recently came up with controversial words that you might or might not like, but these sentences in Good Life, quoted above, brought "Yeezy" and T-Pain the Grammy back in 2008 and the same logic has favored Juve pretty much, the most mouth-watering ones being Pogba and Pirlo, and Emre Can being the most recent freebie snatch of The Old Lady.

Of course, these kind of transfers are not completely free, you know, agent fee, signing fee, and the list goes on. Also agents like to inflate those said fees because the clubs are already avoiding the biggest fee, the testimonial and oh boy, the agents do love abusing the fact.

I, an avid fan of the FM series who enters the "Player Search" section every January and sets the filter to "contract expiring in 6 months", decided to take a look at this summer's available dudes our Roma could favor from their services. The list could've been prettier if I had not been lazy, as some of the free players have already found a new club now.

Max Meyer, 22, Midfielder

I'm surprised that this lad is still available, at least Transfermarkt says so.

Meyer has played as a Schalke player for his entire professional career and this summer he decided to go on another adventure. He has Champions League and Europa League experiences, 16 games in each tournament which is pretty impressive for a 22 year old, and also has been capped for Germany 4 times.

Roma's midfield has underperformed last season, but we've already signed players capable of starting (Cristante, Pastore) along with Coric as a young gun while departing our beloved Ninja. I also think that Gonalons will start performing, and maybe Florenzi can also get moved back to his first position if Rick Karsdorp performs enough to get Ale's starting RB spot. So, the midfield looks already packed on paper, but he's free, he's young, and he has potential, so why not?

Milan Badelj, 29, Midfielder

The Croat is currently still at Russia, probably getting prepared for the final unlike Nikola Kalinic. He has played only 103 minutes but managed to score and assist, once each. He also has completed 89.2 percent of his passes and gets a decent 7.06 rating from WhoScored parameters.

Everyone knows that Danielino is not getting younger and time won't wait for Roma to get a proper replacement or an alternative for him. Gonalons was signed as "that" guy but failed last year, even though I stated above that he will perform this year, this is just an assumption and Badelj looks like a safer pick for me. He also has Serie A experience and captained Fiorentina after Astori's shocking death.

Bernard, 25, Winger

We've already seen the Brazilian perform against Roma in the last-16 matchup versus Shakhtar. Roma already has enough wingers number-wise, but Perotti and SeS are inconsistent, Kluivert is a mystery and surely will need time like Under did, and Defrel is surely not a winger. Unnecessary if no wingers leave the club (highly doubt that). But if Monchi decides to change stuff, Bernard could be the medicine

He also has a Spanish passport so wouldn't take a non-EU spot.

But he is only 164cm tall and as I know Monchi, this is a red flag even for a winger, a position where short players often play at.

Yaya Toure, 35, Midfielder

Tons of experience, but probably also tons of money for wage. A Keita-type transfer, enough said. Also see: Juve-Evra

Could take minutes off Dani if Gonalons continues underperforming.

Rafael, 28, Goalkeeper

Released by Napoli this summer, the Brazilian could be a decent third option between the poles if we're not going to use Romagnoli or another Primavera keeper. Has 5 years of Serie A experience but only played 32 games.

Giulherme Siqueira, 32, Left-back

This transfer is only necessary if Luca Pellegrini is getting loaned out (doubt that) or Raiola decides to be an ass and forces a move. Has experience and an Italian passport. Not good enough to whine about getting benched behind Kolarov, not bad enough to fuck games up single handedly. (Remember Greek tragedies?)