Twenty million for a 27-year-old goalkeeper is certainly not an “Atalanta” operation, which to give Gasperini certainty has moved in a different way than in the past.
Let’s immediately dismantle the following cliché: you can’t spend 20 million on a goalkeeper. False, who said it, why generalize? Even more so if the goalkeeper is called Juan Musso, he has an extraordinary talent and with his 27 years he has at least a dozen career ahead to take away any satisfaction. Atalanta wanted it at all costs and distorted the criteria that had accompanied it in previous market sessions. Simple criteria that should be summarized as follows: 20 million is spent only in exceptional situations, when you understand that you can still make a capital gain; that money should be invested even more if it is a midfielder, an attacking winger or a forward. But it would be better to stay under 20, as happened in the case of Koopmeiners that Atalanta could have taken at least a month earlier if they had guaranteed that figure to AZ. Instead, he didn’t, he waited for the Dutch to make a reasonable discount, the Percassi were counting on the boy’s will and they were right. Question: but also Musso had said yes to Atalanta, wouldn’t it have been the case to take the same attitude to spend maybe 15 million rather than the 20 requested by Udinese? No, here Atalanta has chosen a different reasoning that has undermined the logic of its market because it was necessary to give an immediate certainty to Gasperini. A certainty in the role that he believed discovered and that had caused a lot of trouble in the previous season.
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