ROME-- Yesterday was a good day for As Roma; a 4-0 win against Fiorentina and a significant step forward toward getting a huge new stadium which has been dubbed by some commentators the "modern Colosseum" of the Eternal City.

 A meeting between As Roma’s representatives, the Capitol and the contractor Luca Parnasi ended in the announcement that technical committees will meet in the coming days to discuss the project. The difficulty will be in balancing Rome’s city planning authority’s desire to slash the commercial component of the project and Raggi’s desire to see the facility built. The project’s projected cost could rise to up to 1.5 billion euros and will be constructed on the site of the former Tor di Valle racecourse.

  The head of the City’s planning department, Paolo Berdini, has asked for significant cuts to the commercial complex that is proposed to be built next to the sporting complex in order to make the project economically viable. In addition to this is the fact that government has taken a stance against building excessively using public funds.

 As Roma have launched an offensive in order to see to it that the stadium is built under the hashtag #FamoStoStadio (let’s build this stadium). Luciano Spalletti and Francesco Totti has resonated throughout social media and the press. The councillor’s day was full with a meeting with Parliamentary Commission on the outskirts of Rome followed by a meeting with As Roma’s higher ups but Rai reporters managed to track him down for comment yesterday. He said, regarding the stadium that “If the plan remains within the rules, as I have said for months, the stadium can and will be built, the club must however move away from demands that are too high for this poor town.” When asked about the tweet Totti put out announcing his support for the project he said that “I realise it matters but so do rules, they stop it being a jungle.”

 What Berdini wants is a deal with the Parnasi building group that is economically minded. They will build the stadium and in return be given 600.000 square metres for the development of offices and businesses. When asked yesterday he replied “I am in favour of the Rome stadium, I have told you that ten times, but I am against the economic roulette.” The capitols requirement are a 10/20% reduction in space with some of the towers in the complex being held free for offices and commercial building and this will require and alteration to the December 2014 resolution which outlines the project.

 The head of the Democratic party, Marco Miccoli, welcomed Berdini into the committee yesterday with a sign saying “FamoLoStadio” but he was quick to reply that he is not anti-stadium, just anti public funds being put anti-public funds being spent on private projects, especially when Roman infrastructure in crumbling.

 Yesterday the parties involved met to discuss the project in the Town Planning department lasted just under two hours. Essentially the issue is that this is a planning department that does not support construction. However, since Rome dropped its bid for the 2024 Olympics is a new stadium really necessary?