{"id":652077,"date":"2026-10-20T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:40:10","slug":"back-from-the-brink-pellegrini-opens-up-on-contract-drama-and-gasperini-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652077\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the brink! Pellegrini opens up on contract drama and Gasperini rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p2h0njYwYRU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Speaking in his pre-match press conference<\/a>, Pellegrini admitted he appeared destined to leave the Stadio Olimpico before Gasperini&#8217;s arrival. &#8220;The boss was crucial because at the start of last season it seemed almost normal that we would go separate ways,&#8221; Pellegrini revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, from my perspective, the first time I sat down with the coach last season, we immediately agreed on what I could do here with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to the club, the coach, the staff and my team-mates last summer and they all said they wanted me here. So it was very natural,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Pellegrini admitted he appeared destined to leave the Stadio Olimpico before Gasperini&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4488,293370,85,46,293369,60479,293371,270751,105,270752],"class_list":["post-652077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champions-league","tag-g-gasperini","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-l-pellegrini","tag-roma","tag-roma-vs-slovan-bratislava","tag-slovan-bratislava","tag-sports","tag-y-toure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}