Atalanta, new coach decided
Only a summit scheduled for this morning between sports management and ownership is missing, but Atalanta’s choice on Gian Piero Gasperini’s bench succession has now fallen to Ivan Juric.
The 50-year-old Croatian, who took over and was exonerated last season at Roma and then at Southampton, beat off competition from Thiago Motta, Raffaele Palladino and outsider Patrick Vieira.
Historian Gasperini after playing for him at Crotone and Genoa, Juric is set to sign a two-year contract at 2.5 million including bonuses. The’agreement between the parties there’s already.
For the final okay, the final meeting between the Nerazzurri president and CEO Antonio and Luca Percassi, sporting director Tony D’Amico, who worked with the new coach at Verona between 2019 and 2021, and co-chairman Stephen Pagliuca, the property’s key shareholder.
For announcements, officialdom and presentation it will be necessary to wait for the technical times of the bureaucratic process also related to the termination of Juric’s contract with Southampton.
