The construction of a new venue in the Ostiense district or the revamp of Stadio Olimpico. These are the two options the club is considering at the moment. However, none of them is easy to implement. In the background, there are court disputes following the collapse of the Tor di Valle project.

After Roberto Gualtieri was elected as the new mayor of Rome, the debate on building a new facility for the Giallorossi flared up again. The club continues its efforts to build a ground with a minimum capacity of 45,000.

AS Roma owner Dan Friedkin is trying hard to erect a new stadium and is investing a lot of money in the team, hoping for a qualitative leap forward. His actions aim at the club's return to the Champions League. However, it will not be an easy task, as you can see when analysing the odds for matches of the side led by Jose Mourinho on betting sites like this.

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After the construction of a new arena in Tor di Valle was abandoned, the site of the former General Markets in Ostiense is among the locations considered by AS Roma. At this point, this is the preferred option by the club's management, although it requires the adoption of a new zoning plan.

The new mayor of Rome is optimistic about the club's plans to move out of Stadio Olimpico, as he has repeatedly declared good will and willingness to help with this move. The same thing applies to Lazio, which in turn would like to build its own stadium on the basis of the now heavily neglected Stadio Flaminio.

If the move out is unsuccessful, AS Roma may consider re-styling Stadio Olimpico. However, this is neither the preferred solution nor the beneficial option. The above-mentioned facility is not owned by the municipality, but belongs to the state property. As a result, it would be difficult for AS Roma to ever become the owner of the venue.

What's more, the club would not be free to decide how to use the arena and would have to consult all fundamental decisions with its legal owner. Most of the revenues from concerts and other events would go directly to Sport & Salute, the stadium's managing body.

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It is also worth mentioning the enormous amount of work required to transform a difficult-to-adapt stadium for the club's needs. This would force AS Roma to play elsewhere while doing the necessary reconstruction work at Stadio Olimpico. It is mostly about transforming the curves, the visibility from which is limited due to the considerable distance from the field of play.

Choosing the right concept for a new stadium is not the only problem that the club is facing. There is a serious risk that the project will be blocked for many years by court disputes. Two appeals were filed with the Regional Administrative Court after the municipality revoked the public interest for the Tor di Valle stadium project.

In October, the company Eurnova, which was supposed to build the stadium, filed an appeal seeking compensation of € 32.5 million for the losses it suffered as a result of the municipality's decision.

In addition, another entity called Cpi Tor di Valle, led by Czech businessman Radovan Vitek, who owns the land on which the stadium was to be erected, made a claim for compensation of € 260.2 million. If the club has to attend the court hearings, it may cause further years of delays in the implementation of AS Roma's stadium plans.