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Roma president James Pallotta has let fly at former sporting director Monchi, after his unveiling at Sevilla.

Monchi was unveiled by the Spanish side on Monday, having returned home to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan for a second spell.

The 50-year-old left the Giallorossi by mutual consent earlier this month and had looked destined to take the vacant technical director job at Arsenal .

But instead he returned to the job he left in 2017, and made claims over his Stadio Olimpico exit at his unveiling.

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"I left Roma for a simple reason: I realised that the owners’ ideas were different to mine," said Monchi.

"The president thought it was better to go to the right, I thought it was better to go left."

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But those claims haven't sat well with those in power in the Italian capital.

And Roma chief Pallotta has hit back, insisting that he handed over complete control of the club.

“I was kind of surprised to read Monchi say at his press conference that he wanted to go one way and I wanted to go another way," Pallotta said in response to Monchi's comments.

"I appreciate that Monchi never set out to fail at Roma but I want to make something very clear: right from the start, I was very clear about the direction I wanted us to go in and that’s why we spent a lot of money bringing Monchi in.

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"From the start, I said I wanted first class coaches, first class performance staff,first class medical staff, first class scouting and recruitment and a first class football organisation. I gave Monchi the keys to deliver that.

"I gave him 100 per cent control to appoint the coach he wanted, to employ the assistant coaches and the performance staff, to manage the scouting and to bring in the players he wanted.

"If you look at our results and our performances, it’s clear that this hasn’t worked."

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And Pallotta didn't stop there.

With Monchi's exit coming on the back of Eusebio Di Francesco's departure - Roma have since re-hired Claudio Ranieri until the end of the season - the American businessman went into further detail over how Monchi's failings left the club exposed - particularly when the club began to struggle on the field in November.

"In November, when our season was going from bad to worse and everyone could see that the coach was struggling to get a reaction out of the players, I asked Monchi for his Plan B should things continue to get worse," continued Pallotta.

"He had sole responsibility for football operations at Roma but he didn’t have a Plan B. That was November. He said his Plan B was just to keep doing the same as Plan A.

"So, if I read or listen to the radio interviews he’s giving where he says that the idea of the ownership was different to his and that is why he left, please let me know what Monchi wanted to do differently? He asked me to trust him and let him do it his way.

"We gave him complete control and now we have more injuries than we’ve ever had and are in danger of missing out on finishing in the Top 3 for the first time since 2014."