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Originally Posted by Jim_UK
Has Barusso officially joined Roma yet? I'm absolutely seething about this!
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what Graeme said although I read that they have reached an agreement and Roma will buy half of Barusso for 2 mil euros and his salary would be 300,000 euros/year - they don't seem to be very convinced about him and there are some question marks about how he's recovered from that serious injury he got, which cost him almost the entire season (he played in only the first 7-8 games this last year for Rimini, I think).
even if Roma and Rimini have agreed on a deal, Barusso is still not entirely lost as Rimini would still have half of his rights.
The Rimini sports director also said that Milan had shown very serious interest in the past, before the injury and the two clubs had actually reached an agreement - between 4.2 and 4.8 mil + coownership of Digao (kaka's brother) and some other Milan youngster - but that injury broke things off and, he said, Milan had not shown interest lately ... so, it's not really that Roma is stealing him from under our noses but most probably Milan are having some big doubts about the guy, not that Roma is all convinced on him given that thwy don't even wanna buy all his rights but just 50%.