Roma have reportedly been fined for failing to reach a capital gains target required by UEFA.

It’s said that the Giallorossi fell less than £2m short of their target, so will have to pay a £4.3m penalty to UEFA.

Roma were able to avoid a more severe punishment – such as a reduction to their European squad list or even expulsion from competition – as it was deemed they were close enough to the target. 

Following the fine though, Mourinho is free to make deals after securing a number of outgoing transfers during the summer window.  

The Italian publication claim that they made around £22.3m in net capital gains in the financial year ending June 30.

That figure relates to the profit made in sales of Bournemouth’s Justin Kluivert, Benjamin Tahirovic, Cristian Volpato, Filippo Missori, Ruben Providence, Carles Perez and fslparty.com add-ons linked to Nicolo Zaniolo. 

Sassuolo director Giovanni Carnevali said that they have a ‘good relationship with Roma’ and closed deals for Volpato and Missori before June 30 because Roma ‘needed it’.

Roma are in the race for midfielder this summer, with Sassuolo’s Davide Frattesi among the targets.  

Despite the club reportedly receiving offers for Tottenham target Roger Ibanez and Nicola Zalewski in recent days, the club decided to pay the fine rather than rushing through a sale for those players. 

It follows the crisis at Juventus where the Italian giants were accused of falsification of capital gains from their transfer dealings.

after having their previous punishment reinstated following a verdict handed down by the Italian Federal Court of Appeal.

They  initially saw the decision to deduct them 15 points reversed earlier in the season.

Juventus’ entire board of directors including president Andrea Agnelli and vice president Pavel Nedved amid charges of false accounting. 

They finished seventh in the standings, just one point behind Roma.