Atalanta between the renewal of Gasperini and the market

Atalanta and Gian Piero Gasperini will soon be seen. Perhaps already within the next 48 hours. A face to face that can close the circle of comparisons between the Percassi and the co-president Pagliuca staged between Sunday and yesterday, and be more decisive than the first meetings, interlocutors, with the technician of last week: first of all to clarify the continuation of his relationship and therefore on the project of the goddess who will be. Gasp is linked to the club by another year of the contract, and for this reason it can theoretically remain on the Nerazzurri bench even without extending it, or not doing it immediately: they are possibly that they should however be considered as “extreme” and not ideal. A scenario that in any case both parties consider appropriate, even before urgent or necessary, make it clearer. In any case, the club and the technician from that constraint feel linked, until proven otherwise: that is, an epilogue with farewell, for a possible proposal of another club or a agreed separation.

Two items on renewal

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Renewal has been the recurring word of recent months: since in February the Gasp manifested the decision not to sign it, until it reached the proposal of an agreement until 2027 advanced by the company. “More than offering him an extension, we cannot do,” said the A.D on Sunday evening. Luca Percassi. Sentence in antithesis with that dictated by Gasperini in the post race: “My contract is a subsequent question”. Subsequent (and therefore subordinate) to what? The keywords in its long dissertation was: objectives. And how to declare them clearly, without creating false expectations, and then how to reach them. His concern, which Atalanta plans to be able to reassure, is that the goal considered now strategic, and therefore necessary, by the club given the dimension achieved, or participation in the Champions League, will not be so easy to reach, in the next season. Or in any case not to be evaluated as obvious, also in consideration of the competitions that could be more numerous and qualified.

The possible sales

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If the mandatory goal is this, “today I don’t think I am able to guarantee it. And I don’t know if the possibility of having to lower the bar can be accepted from the company”. A phrase not from Gasperini, who was born – he explained – from assessments on the current squad and on how the market and scanning of his times could modify it: first the sales – the technician has never contested the “duty” of the Atalanta not to refuse indispensable capital gains – and then the purchases, or vice versa? They are and will be projections dictated by the opportunities that may present themselves: the only practically safe departure – obviously for an adequate offer – is that of Lookman. In the ideal projects there would be no others, but the unknowns are represented by “absolute” proposals for Ederson (far from excluding) and in the case also for staggers.

The plan

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The needs, beyond the substitutes for those who greet, will be for the external department and above all the defense: the redemption (or renewal of the loan) of Kossounoou is still to be concretized, Kolasinac (in October) and Scalvini will return after important and djimsites injuries could ask for the freedom to accept Arab offers: this time a Gentleman Agreement would be difficult to refuse. Of all this, but above all of the possible alternatives to any starters, we will speak more in depth when they meet Clubs and Gasperini. That before (re), face the renewal discourse confides to agree on a very concrete plan. What Atalanta is working on: everything will be, as the technician said the other evening, get to a point where “harmony on certain evaluations” is located.