Atalanta must no longer be viewed as the Cinderella of Italian football due to the fact they have all the features of a prime club.
They have a pretty robust and skilled owner, Antonio Percassi, who has strengthened the possession by offering component of the shares overseas, and has an exceptional coach like Gian Piero Gasperini, a variety of ‘Good Dictator’ who quarrels with the players when he realises that they are dropped their concentrations of motivation and sacrifice for the staff.
Atalanta are a group made up of a lot of distinctive players with Gasperini, the proper person in the proper area. Without the need of him, the staff would have lost intensity, failing to keep these types of superior standards of general performance through their recent history in Serie A and in the Champions League.
Atalanta have designed a wonderful start off to the season and are second in the Serie A desk
Gasperini looks like a magician capable of always earning the suitable decisions in the finest moments without the need of ever creating the club devote far too significantly revenue – a attribute a great deal appreciated specially in Italy.
Like Napoli, Atalanta are also unbeaten and share this statistical report with a workforce that will most likely fight to the conclude for the Serie A title. The management fees of the club are not higher and this enables them to deal with the current market.
The major characteristic of the Bergamo staff is to allow players who want to working experience new profession chances, or who have difficulties with coach Gasperini, to depart without any hesitation.
Nobody assumed that the club could get rid of leading gamers like Pierluigi Gollini, ‘Papu’ Gomez, Robin Gosens and Josip Ilicic without the need of challenges, but Gasperini has shown that he can do with no all the gamers while maintaining the good quality of Atalanta. No- one is indispensable for Gasperini, everyone is valuable but the coach’s football philosophy will not transform for any player.
His new Atalanta is much less impressive and much more sound, and regardless of the a lot of starts off in all departments it is the solidness of the defence that amazes all the Bergamo supporters.
In a couple of months, quite a few protagonists of their ideal times in modern several years have remaining Bergamo but the workforce has been able to regenerate on the market place and via its own youth sector.
Atalanta boss Gian Piero Gasperini is the ideal supervisor at the right time for the Italian facet
GASPERINI’S GOLD MINE: SCALVINI, OKOLI AND DEMIRAL
Giorgio Scalvini, Merih Demiral and Caleb Okoli are a few stars who can dominate Serie A in the current and in the long term.
The trio of children are the greatest discovery of Gasperini and a crucial element of the manager’s rebuilding occupation.
Jointly, they do not exceed a blended 63 many years of age and signify the excellent perform of the younger teaching centre of Zingonia, wherever a number of top rated players in the previous had been born before likely on to win nationwide and worldwide trophies.
Giorgio Scalvini (still left) is amongst the kids to have excelled at Atalanta so far this period
According to ‘Repubblica’, Scalvini, the Italian defender born in 2003, ended up in the notes of Roma, Lazio, Juventus and Inter but also of the best major European golf equipment.
With 21-yr-outdated defender Okoli, on the other hand, the stress of Milan is powerful. The club are searching for an additional younger defender, after Fikayo Tomori and Pierre Kalulu, to ship Kjaer into retirement.
Inter’s desire is generally active on Demiral, primarily if Giuseppe Marotta manages to market at minimum a single defender among Milan Skriniar and Stefan De Vrij in the summer season. Demiral, Okoli and Scalvini today symbolize the gold mine of Atalanta which every single calendar year looks to produce 4 to 5 players of great physique and high quality prepared to enjoy in Serie A.
The three players’ complete price right now is about €110million (£96m) and if Atalanta were to take care of to return to Europe it would be even larger. There is a large amount of enthusiasm in Bergamo and the town is adhering to with desire the situations of the group that proceeds to acquire and achieve incredible sporting results.
Caleb Okoli (ideal) has also amazed and has captivated the interest of the likes of AC Milan
THE LOOKMAN SHOW
In the Premier League at Everton, Fulham and Leicester they did not consider in him but in Italy Lookman has proved to be a fashionable and successful winger who scores and delivers many helps.
He has by now erased Ilicic’s memory and consigned Jeremie Boga, the French winger who was supposed to switch Gomez right after his departure for Sevilla, to the bench.
Nowadays Atalanta can not do without having the Nigerian winger, who desires to appear like Tijani Babangida, the Ajax star who ran like a horse and stung the opponent’s defences like the idea of a spear.
Ademola Lookman is savoring his soccer again and has become a critical member of the aspect
The abbreviation of Ademola for Atalanta admirers is ‘Mola’, and in the Orobic town there is a dialect expression that reads ‘Mola Mia’ which suggests by no means give up.
In opposition to Sassuolo. Lookman was substituted in the 68th moment just after producing the defenders of the Emilian staff sense like it truly is Halloween night days in progress. His way of jogging creates enthusiasm among the admirers who carry on to be shocked at how a participant with these traits has normally struggled to obtain house in the top clubs.
The ahead has grow to be an untouchable on the Gasperini chessboard who now, in the absence of Duvan Zapata, continues to wager on his ambitions to continue being at the major of the desk.
As opposed to the Portuguese No 17 of Milan, Lookman knows how to engage in in quite a few roles, as a superior forward, as a 2nd striker but also as a very first striker.
He is an incredible participant who immediately alterations the way he plays with out at any time reducing his effectiveness. Lookman right away set up an great experience with the metropolis of Bergamo and did not put up with setbacks in residing football at a insane velocity like that conceived by Gasperini, who right now simply cannot do with out him in training.
The Nigerian winger has four targets and 3 assists in 10 league games so much this season