ROME (SW) - Daniele De Rossi and AS Roma have come to a new agreement, which ties the midfielder to the Italian side for another four seasons.

Club and player had been certain of completing the deal without particular troubles all along.

Financially, De Rossi could have done worse as his salary will increase to no less than 8.1 million Euros a year in the last two seasons.

De Rossi, born in 1983, became an official AS Roma player in 2002, and has server no other team since.

The player represented the Italian national team at the 2006 World Cup and this year's European Championships.