Serie A side Roma's performance this season is not ideal, the record in the Serie A is declining, and the chance of winning a European place in the next season is close to being destroyed; although it has advanced to the top 4 in the Europa League, it is impossible to beat the Premier League team Manchester United and is out, so the next season is likely to be the team's first absence from The European competition since the 2012/13 season, and the performance is disappointing. Earlier the team announced that the next season will be replaced by the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, who was just dismissed by the Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in the coming season, many people believe that there will be a big blood change in the squad, especially the players who have performed poorly in recent seasons or are plagued by injuries and are gradually forgotten, are all popular candidates for purging, just like Argentine attacking midfielder Javier Pastore who underwent ankle surgery in the summer and recovered from injuries until last month to really return to the green field. It is one of the top hits on the list who is about to face purges.
Javier Pastore, who will turn 32 next month, joined Hurricane Athletic in 2008 to get his first taste of playing in the First Division, and even delivered a blockbuster performance, quickly becoming the team's main attacking force, successfully attracting the attention of many mainstream European league teams, and was signed by the then Serie A team Palermo for 4.7 million euros in the summer of 2009. Landing alone in the higher-level Serie A arena, Javier Pastore, with his excellent personal skills and increasingly advanced transmission ability, took a short time to stand firm in the team's right position, becoming the proud work of the Sicilian team to make acquisitions in the transfer market this season and even in the past 20 years, forming a very aggressive forward combination with Mikoli and Cavani in the front, helping the then serieS mid-range team to win a European place for consecutive years, and became one of the future rising stars who were optimistic about the European football world at that time.
After playing in Palermo, Javier Pastore became the target of many European giants, including Juventus, Roma, Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, etc., and was signed in the summer of 2011 by the Ligue 1 team Paris Saint-Germain, which had just been funded by the Qatari consortium, for a whopping 40 million euros. In the early days of Ligue 1, the Argentine midfielder was still able to play a good level, but as the team continued to introduce higher-quality world-class stars, coupled with the constant problem of injury, the Argentine international's chances of playing were gradually reduced, and Brazilian star Neymar parachuted into Paris in the summer of 2017, naturally became the team's attacking core figure, which further marginalized Javier Pastore, who took the initiative to give up the No. 10 shirt to the former, and was selected to play a few times. As a result, although in the seven seasons of playing, he won 5 Ligue 1 titles for the team, but in order to seek more stable playing opportunities, the Argentine midfielder had to leave the team.
In the summer of 2018, the then Roma sporting director Menchi felt that the team's lack of creativity in midfield was affecting the quality of the attack, so he decided to bring Javier Pastore back to Serie A for about 25 million euros and sign a five-year contract.
Returning to Serie A, many people are looking forward to the performance of Javier Pastore, after all, the argentine midfielder's high-level performance in Palermo a few seasons ago still remains in the minds of many people, coupled with the fact that the Roman squad was not as abundant as Paris Saint-Germain at that time, so its playing opportunities and even the weight of the instrument should not be a problem, but Javier Pastore was deeply injured, and was forced to recover for nearly 3 months due to a calf injury in the early days of joining, and after his comeback, he was unable to recover his best level and failed to integrate into the team due to the delay in his form. Seriously affected his performance, this season due to ankle injuries, and therefore have to undergo surgery, from the pre-season until last month to really come back, but it is not expected to play a very important position in the squad when he first joined.
Javier Pastore has played 36 games in all competitions since he joined Roma for three seasons, not to mention its importance, and even finding a place for the team is very difficult. Suffering from long-term injuries, the midfielder who played for his country in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa can no longer compare with the past, and his poor physical resistance and non-defensive style of play are definitely not the type that Mourinho likes, and with a salary that is not low, it seems that the days of leaving the Italian capital team are not far away.