Nicholas Zaniolo he showed up in Zingonia on July 9, four days ago, and is working with great enthusiasm. He knows that this could be the season of redemption, considering that many at Atalanta have managed to do so. The last on the list? Charles De Ketelaere, whose redemption also played an important role in the choice of the former Roma attacking winger. As well as a call from Gasperini. The background is told by The Sports Gazette.
In mid-June, Zaniolo was still a player very close to Fiorentina: let’s say engaged, after a long-standing courtship, even preceding his transfer to Aston Villa, including a meeting with Joe Barone who had opened the doors of the Viola club to him. On July 5, the official announcement of the midfielder’s return to Serie A: with the Atalanta jersey
And Zaniolo’s opinion plays as important a role as a phone call with Gasperini: the coach explains to him how he intends to focus on him, is very persuasive and gives a definitive meaning to the moves already made by the club. Convincing also from an economic point of view: enough to beat the Viola competition and the resistance of Galatasaray, who is taking advantage of the arm wrestling between the two Italian clubs, making the agreement for the loan a sort of soap opera.