Roma's Late Transfer Plans: Free Agents and Key Targets

Atalanta loom on the calendar, but at Trigoria the whiteboard is split in two: match plans on one side, free agents on the other.

Roma ended the summer window with a gap everyone could see. The left flank still doesn’t have the specialist Gian Piero Gasperini wanted, and the club has been forced into an unusual kind of late business: hunting quality among the unattached.

The line from inside the club is simple enough. No panic signing, no name for the sake of a headline. They will move only if a genuine fit for the coach’s demands appears. No fee, yes — but also no compromise.

One name refuses to go away. According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Wilfried Zaha is back in the frame. Roma came close to him in 2023, then watched the opportunity slip. Now the Ivorian is again without a club after his last spell, available on a free and still carrying that blend of one‑v‑one menace and big‑game temperament that appeals to any attacking coach.

He is not alone on the list.

• Krépin Diatta is another profile under consideration. The Senegalese wide man, released after his last season at Monaco, offers pace, vertical runs and the kind of tactical flexibility that could tempt a coach who likes his wide players to work both ways.
• Then there is the most intriguing option of all in pure positional terms: Raphael Guerreiro. At 32, the Portuguese arrives off a season with Bayern Munich and brings something different — experience at the highest level, intelligence on the ball, and the ability to operate both as a traditional left-back and as an extra playmaker from deep. On paper, he is the closest thing to a direct answer to that unresolved need on the left.

For now, they remain names on a board and files in a folder. Training for Atalanta continues, systems are drilled, roles rehearsed. But the market door, just when it seemed shut, has been left deliberately ajar.

Roma know this: one well-judged free signing can tilt a season. The question is whether any of these three will be judged worth that final step.