AS Roma owner Thomas Di Benedetto stands by coach Luis Enrique.
The first big move made by Di Benedetto was to bring in Luis Enrique from Barcelona.
"Early on, the Italian press was all over Luis, tried to be all over me, was somewhat critical, tried to get me to say things that would have been contradictory to Luis and I supported him 100 percent. I think that was essential and I believe in him and I believe in the idea we have.
"It's important that everybody's part of the team and no one is bigger than the team. You don't want a team where players rely upon one player to bail them out. You want everybody to be doing their best and working at their optimum capacity to make things happen.
"I try to be honest with the press. I've told them from the beginning you have to be patient. An idea takes a long time and we'll work very hard to do the best we can and we have a lot of people who work very hard.
"I'm surprised how intense it has been, yes. I thought it would be a lot, but I never anticipated it would be like this."