The Atalanta Courier
Squad25 Jun 2029
Damián Lemos damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market25 Jun 2029
Damián Lemos puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atalanta, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jun 2029
Criciuma come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atalanta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Atalanta
Franck Kessié was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A row about effort at Atalanta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giorgio Scalvini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market25 Jun 2029
One of our own: Sergio D'Amico joins the Atalanta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio D'Amico is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Jun 2029
One of our own: Giuseppe Caruso joins the Atalanta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Giuseppe Caruso is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Ibrahim Sulemana gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
The manager makes Cheikh Niasse a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Atalanta. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Squad Mario Pašalić is training like a man with a point to make
- The dugout Honest Ahanor keeps his manager's vote