'Atalanta market over with Pasalic'

By Football Italia staff

Atalanta CEO Luca Percassi claims his club’s transfer campaign has ‘finished’ with the return of Mario Pasalic.

Atalanta already had a €15m option to buy Pasalic after he spent last season in Bergamo, but Percassi announced on Wednesday that they had renewed their loan deal.

“There was a new development a few minutes ago,” he told ANSA.

“We’re happy because he’s an important player for us. The deal provides us with an option to buy.”

However, Luca was not expecting his club to do any more business before their Champions League bow next term.

“For me, [the transfer window] has finished,” he continued.

“With Luis Muriel we added an extraordinary striker to a department that was already extraordinary.

“The squad doesn’t require touch-ups. Let’s not forget we finished third. The summer transfer market consists of accelerations and braking,

“I don’t think we need much else up top as we already had the League’s best front line: our 103 goals throughout last season speak for themselves.

“Zapata, Ilicic and Gomez are staying. We’ll still be at the window trying to seize any opportunities that arise, but with Muriel and the confirmation of Pasalic’s [new] loan, we‘ve pulled off two big coups.”

That could leave Gianluca Mancini’s proposed sale to Roma and their reported pursuit of Genoa defender Davide Biraschi in doubt.

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