After spending the last four years in Rome since swapping Manchester for the Eternal City, how’s your Italian?
[Smiles] It could be better, but equally I can do interviews and have conversations, so it’s pretty good. I can get by, and also translate for a lot of my friends and family. There have been ups and downs with it, but once you’ve learnt a foreign language – I’d never learnt another one properly – then you can pick up others after. It’s a work in progress.
You signed a two-year contract extension in April. That must be an indication of how much you’re enjoying your time at Roma?
When I first joined Roma on a season-long loan in 2019, it was a last-minute thing and hadn’t been the