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Fifty fifty. It’s difficult to say what choice he will make today Gian Piero Gasperini after the confrontation with the Percassi family. Everything will depend on what comes out of a face-to-face match that Atalanta would have willingly delayed by a few days, post Atalanta-Turin, and which Grugliasco’s coach instead claimed was imminent. “These things have to be resolved in a very short time,” he said after the triumph in Dublin.
Atalanta on one side, Napoli on the other. In the next few hours, Gasperini will communicate his choice to the Neapolitan club which is doing everything to convince him to start again from a club which, a year after winning the Scudetto, finds itself faced with a difficult but also fascinating re-foundation. The sporting director Giovanni Manna also had a long discussion with Gasp yesterday: for over a month, since he unofficially began his adventure as Napoli’s sporting director, he put Grugliasco’s coach at the top of his list of preferences and then consistently carried this idea forward. Until the end. He has already discussed the upcoming Napoli with Gasperini, he has already offered Gasperini a contract for the next three seasons. In short, he is plan A and also plan B. Then the others eventually come, therefore Conte, Pioli and Italiano.
Gasperini is very attracted by this possibility. But Atalanta has been his home for eight years and next year he will play important matches: the Super Champions League, the European Super Cup, the UEFA-Conmebol Club Challenge against LDU Quito, the Italian Super Cup in Arabia. All matches to which Napoli will obviously not have access. But on the slopes of Vesuvius there will be a new and ambitious project: in two seasons he wants to become competitive again for the Scudetto. What will he choose?