ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The last Friday interview of Ranieri for me was an incredible surprise, there was never a different tone between me and him both in the conferences and in the direct relationships”. So the Giallorossi coach, Gian Piero Gasperini, on the eve of the match against the Atalanta, returns on the words of the advisor of Friedkin, Claudio Ranieri, in the pre contest of Roma-Pisa last Friday.
“It was an unexpected situation. In so many months I had never felt this feeling and these tones by him. From that moment on, I was just concerned not to answer and try not to create any kind of damage and no kind of difficulty to the team, even for respect of the public,” Gasperini explained.
“I’ve been eight years in Genoa and nine years in Atalanta, it means that maybe I’m not such a bad person and maybe it’s not so difficult to work with me so many years. It is certain that in nine years there may sometimes be different points of view, but always within the limits”, added the technician of Rome who then focused on the challenge of tomorrow against his former society.
“Atalanta is a team from Champions. If we beat her, we can play her. In Bergamo I left the Champions and a year of contract, with the company that wanted to extend it. For me the cycle was closed because I didn’t think it was possible, on my part, to do more than we had done,” said Gasperini, who still has to dissolve some doubt of training and that, in this regard, he faces another delicate subject that emerged in recent days.
“Wesley feels he can play, sprint and shoot, but the medical part considers that there are risks. This sometimes triggers discussions and problems, but it is quite normal. There’s another kind of discussion there.” After recovering Mancini, the technician hopes to have the Brazilian exterior available: “Wesley has an incredible will to participate in this race, on the other hand it stops. We’ll see tomorrow. If the doctor says no, I can’t do anything. I have always adhered to medical indications and never forced,” said Gasperini.
Then the return to the Atalanta and the surprise ending. The technician was moved by talking about the president of the Atalanta, Antonio Percassi. “Atalanta’s anomaly was that for nine years he played in Europe with the best Italian and European teams, making useful every year – said Gasperini, coach of the Bergamo team from 2016 to 2025 – This was the extraordinary thing, clearly very much because of a company able to work in tune with the coach. Then this tune came a little less, a little because the property changed and perhaps also because there was no longer the father Percassi to whom I was more tied…”, added with the voice broken by emotion, in reference to the entry into the society of Stephen Pagliuca who sided with the Percassi in the management of the club.
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