L’Atalanta showed he can fly even without the Papu Gomez.
Pending the trial by fire in Europe, against the Real Madrid opponent in the round of 16 Champions League, the creature of Gian Piero Gasperini seems to have assimilated in record time what is looming as a forced separation from the now former technical leader of the team and former captain, sidelined after the violent clash with the coach in the interval of the match of Champions against Midtjylland.
President Percassi and the whole club immediately sided with the coach, so the Argentine had no choice but to look around to understand where to relaunch his career.
Despite the 33 years to complete in February, Papu is also tempting to many teams in the January market, not insensitive to what the former Catania has been able to do in three and a half years in Bergamo.
However, for family and also technical reasons, after the flop of his brief experience at Metalist Kharkiv, Gomez expressed the desire to stay in Europe, indeed in Italy and in particular near Bergamo.
Not only that, because in the last two hours the Papu has given two courteous but decisive refusals to the proposals made by Fiorentina e Torino.
Gomez had already touched the purple shirt at the time of Montella, his coach at Catania, but the marriage will not be consummated even this time because the Argentine has refused the two and a half years of contract with a salary of 4 million proposed by the club of the president Rocco Commisso. Nothing to do even for the unsafe Turin, who tried the hit to turn the season around.
For the final part of his career, Gomez wants a top-level team that allows him to be a protagonist in the top rankings and in Europe. All the big names in Serie A remain in the running since Milan to Juventus, fromInter to Rome, up to Lazio.
However, the fact remains that only those who will be able to unlock the outgoing one will make the market in January. Probably the future of Gomez will be decided in the last hours of the market …
OMNISPORT | 12-01-2021 14:04
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