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Seems Spalletti shares De Rossi's thoughts on the matter...this is surprising considering Spalletti is a very humble man and never points fingers.

Spalletti thanks Giallorossi
Sunday 18 May, 2008

Luciano Spalletti has thanked Roma for an “exceptional campaign” and hopes they can only get better.

“I must compliment my team on the way they worked this season. We have grown a great deal, have a project to continue and everyone did their duty,” said the Coach after losing out to Inter in the Scudetto race.

“Today Inter were better than us. There’s no point going back over the whole season looking for moments where it went wrong. We did what we had to and probably a bit more than was expected, setting up a close end to the campaign.”

Roma were 11 points adrift in February, but closed the gap to one point going into the final weekend.

The Nerazzurri’s 2-0 victory away to Parma made the other result futile and Catania got back into it to draw 1-1 late on.

“We had some problems towards the end of the game, as Catania created some really good opportunities.

“The essential thing we must take from this is that we did all we could and appreciate the efforts put in by my players.”

However, Spalletti was not about to disagree with Daniele De Rossi, who hinted that Inter only won the title due to refereeing errors.

“Daniele said some logical things and I agree. I don’t feel it is right to only underline those statements, though, as he was the first to call himself bitter for saying them.”