LIVE UPDATES: Roma have sacked Garcia! Spalletti ready
13/ 01/ 2016 h. 10.23 - Spalletti is ready to put pen to paper on a one-year and a half contract. No official statement (both regarding Spalletti and Garcia) has been made yet.
23.05 - Luciano Spalletti will land in Miami in less than 50 minutes. According to Sky Sport Italia he has already agreed personal terms with Roma President James Pallotta and will sign with his former club when it'll be night-time in Italy.
The Italian manager will hold his first training session as Roma manager on Thursday. Daniele Baldini and Marco Domenichini will be appointed to the coaching staff.
20.00 - Roma have informed media that the club won't make any official announcement regarding Rudi Garcia's future today.
18.15 - Roma Channel journalist and Rudi Garcia's girlfriend Francesca Brienza has responded to a comment on her Facebook page admitting that Garcia will leave the club very soon.
"The manager loves the city so much and has never mocked anyone at the club. We'll remember it in the future, that's the way we are done. Respect for whoever will come next."
17.00 - Spalletti will land in Miami at 5.55pm local time (5 to midnight in Italy) to meet James Pallotta, Mauro Baldissoni and Italo Zanzi. He has asked a two-years and a half contract and carte blanche in the transfer market. He is not likely to accept a six-months contract as Roma were reportedly interested in appointing Antonio Conte at the beginning of the next season.
16.40 - Luciano Spalletti will land in Rome on Thursday at 12.30, when the former Zenit Saint Petersburg's boss is expected to finalize Roma deal, Il Corriere dello Sport reveals.
15.30 - The afternoon training session has begun.
14.00 - Garcia will regularly hold this afternoon's training session at Trigoria.
13.10 - Primavera team head coach Alberto De Rossi has been asked to hold the next Roma senior team’s training sessions as negotiations with Luciano Spalletti are still ongoing, Sky Sport Italia reveals.
According to this morining’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport, by the way, the manager had already informed the club that he has no intension to become Roma interim coach to avoid embarrassment as his son Daniele is also part of the team.
12.00 - Luciano Spalletti is flying to Miami, where he will meet James Pallotta and Mauro Baldissoni, Sky Sport Italia reports.
11.15 – The training is about to start (with a delay of 30 minutes) and Rudi Garcia is going to take charge of it. Walter Sabatini has just arrived at Trigoria.
10.12 – Rudi Garcia has just arrived at Roma training centre Trigoria, where he will take a double training session today.
10.00 – The future of Roma manager Rudi Garcia is under consideration by the club’s board after a run of one win in ten games. The Frenchman will meet Roma’s Sporting Director Walter Sabatini today, while the club’s CEO Mauro Baldissoni joined up with President James Pallotta in Miami yesterday. Pallotta has lost patience with the former Lille gaffer, while Sabatini allegedly met Luciano Spalletti yesterday to offer him the Roma job. Marcelo Bielsa and Jorge Sampaoli are also rumored as possible replacements of Rudi Garcia, though the Italian manager is the n.1 choice to take over as Roma boss.
