The goddess should decide by the end of the weekend the new technical guide. The Percassi will hold Pagliuca, co-owner of the Bergamo club
At the Atalanta house it was another interlocutory day. The choice of the coach who will replace Gian Piero Gasperini after nine seasons must be weighted with the right times. Stephen Pagliuca, co-proprietary of the goddess, left Bergamo but will be kept updated on every step by the Percassi family. As always, in recent years it has happened for purchases and sales and as will happen for the first time for the choice of the coach. The idea is to restrict the number of candidates and decide by the end of this week.
Pioli ahead
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How is the situation? Slightly forward in a hypothetical grid compared to the others is Stefano Pioli. The current coach is linked to the Saudis of the AL-Nassr until 30 June 2027, but it can get rid in case it is chosen to return to Serie A. From a tactical point of view Pioli has shown that he can adapt to both the three-way defense and the four to the four, then modulating the team’s offensive part available depending on the material available. Therefore a profile that would adapt without problems to the rose of the goddess and that could open to many scenarios also from the market point of view. Pioli won a Scudetto with Milan in the 2021-22 season, building a memorable ride born from the previous season. It is a profile that Atalanta likes at home and that at the moment part slightly favored with respect to the other candidates. Pioli has shown over the years of knowing how to manage level changing rooms, with strong personalities. The last experience in Saudi Arabia with Cristiano Ronaldo is just an example. At Milan he had been able to make everyone express at best, involving the rose in the project along an entire season making it remain up there.
The Thiago option
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The main alternative candidates is Thiago Motta. Juventus experience did not end well, on the contrary. But the Bergamo club sees in him football ideas that they like and that can be cultivated in Bergamo with the right dose of time. Thiago is a football “son” of Gasperini, from whom he began to absorb the concepts as a technician before starting his experience on the bench. But more than the concepts would be decisive the spirit, the one that the technician would have. That is, the possibility of resuming immediately after the bad stop suffered in Turin in a few months. Feeling again the immediate trust of a company that will play the next Champions League could be the propellant to start again in the fastest way possible.
Sarri
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In the third row we place Maurizio Sarri. Lazio is definitely ahead to embrace the Tuscan technician (yesterday a meeting took place with his agent in Formello), but until there are signatures the Atalanta hypothesis can remain standing. His football is highly appreciated in Bergamo and his experience has a certain weight in the assessments of the goddess. We want to add a surprise outsider, Raffaele Palladino. Very detached, in a hypothetical grid. Atalanta has no intention of extending long assessments. He wants to choose the after Gasperini and to do it with the correct timing also on the basis of the moment the termination will be made official. The reasoning of these days are used to skim the names, put the ideas on the table and be ready to concretize the new coach by the end of this week. Then it will be time to start thinking on the market with the chosen technician. Between players to buy, to confirm and give in. Next season is not so far away and it will be necessary to be found ready immediately. That’s why Atalanta has clear ideas in these days of after-game assessments.
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