Gerard

Central Midfielder - Atalanta U20
20 Mar 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Gerard

38 Edition

The Atalanta Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Odilon Kossounou asks to leave Atalanta

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Henry Camara signs for Alcione Milano while still at Atalanta

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Henry Camara has agreed terms with Alcione Milano for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A row about effort at Atalanta

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franck Kessié was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Giacomo Raspadori in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atalanta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The drought breaks for Atalanta

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Cremonese were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Atalanta see off Cremonese

Three points for Atalanta, 1‑0 the final word against Cremonese in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Franck Kessié in the eights

A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Atalanta lose Gerard

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Andrea Michieletto signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrea Michieletto commits to Atalanta for another 3 years.

In brief

  • Loan watch The goals keep arriving from El Bilal Touré’s exile
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Jonathan Rowe gets picked when it counts
Back issues
34 Edition

The Atalanta Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Fernández

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atalanta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Raoul Bellanova

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Atalanta

Franck Kessié and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Atalanta

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Odilon Kossounou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Parma take the points off Atalanta

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Atalanta lose Gerard

61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Fabio Marchetti: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Thomas Delaine

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

Jonathan Rowe has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Atalanta will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief