The ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’ on newsstands today analyzes the moment of Mateo Retegui, center forward for Atalanta and the national team who is currently the top scorer in the Serie A championship and has just scored a brace in the Champions League against Young Boys. Paid 22 million euros last summer, the footballer born and raised in Argentina was purchased by the Orobic club immediately after the injury suffered by Scamacca and is proving to be a real gold mine.
Retegui, less than four months after his purchase, has practically doubled his value, today he costs at least 40 million euros and several European clubs are already inquiring, even if it is practically impossible that the Goddess will let him leave in January.
Last August 8, Atalanta made the purchase of Mateo Retegui from Genoa official with this press release: “Atalanta BC is pleased to announce that it has definitively acquired from Genoa CFC the right to the sporting services of the footballer Mateo Retegui, 25 year old striker of the Italian national team. Born in San Fernando, Argentina, on 29 April 1999, but with Italian citizenship for lineage, he grew up in football first in River Plate and then in Boca Juniors with which he made his first team debut in November 2018. His career continues in Argentina with the loans first to Estudiantes, then to Talleres and finally to Club Atletico Tigre, with whom from 2022 to 2023 he scored 35 goals in 70 games, winning the title of top scorer in the championship in his first season with 19 goals (in 27 games from the rossoblù). of the Tigre to that of Genoa, a transition that takes place in the summer of 2023 when the Ligurian club acquires him on a permanent basis Italian championship, he immediately stands out by finding the way to the goal already on his official debut in the first round of the Italian Cup (a double against Modena) and then repeating himself in the second round of the championship, when he decides the Olimpico match against Olimpico with a header. Lazio. He closed his first season in Italy with 9 goals (and 3 assists) in 31 games between the championship and the Italian Cup.”