Bergamo, 22 June – TheAtalanta also looking for reinforcements for the bench, also looking for valuable second lines who are ready behind the starters, wants a midfielder to act as assistant Marten De Roon. The indestructible San Martino, who turned 33 in March, will need a valid change in view of a season of around sixty official races.
And the most popular name seems to be that of the 26-year-old Parisian, but with a Congolese passport, Antoine Makoumbou, which exploded in Cagliari under the leadership of Ranieri. Born in 1998, still young but not very young, the rossoblu midfielder has international experience in minor leagues after a brief passage at 20 years old in the Germans of Mainz and followed by a four-year period in Slovenia between Tabor Sesana and the more ambitious Maribor, where Ilicic currently plays.
In Sardinia from summer 2022, the first year in B with 42 appearances and 1 goal, last season the consecration in Serie A, almost always a starter with 31 appearances and 1 goal. He is not yet a ‘Champions’ player, but he is a prospect with potential still to be expressed and with Gasperini he could make the leap in quality as happened to Hien, who arrived from Verona in January.
Cagliari values him at 10 million but Atalanta could offer the 24-year-old Frenchman in return Michel Adoposigned a year ago as a free agent, a boy who never got going in his season in Bergamo, struggling to find space in such a competitive Goddess at a high level.
