Quote from: shinratensei_ on Today at 07:26:59 AM

Quote from: Lillominato89 on July 09, 2025, 07:24:14 PM

I just read the news that our best striker from last season has just agreed to a contract with a team in the Saudi Pro League. Mateo Retegui is leaving Atalanta to play for Al Qadsiah in Saudi Arabia for a fee of €67 million, another record transfer for Atalanta. Mateo, on the other hand, will earn €20 million per season.
It's become impossible to compete with the Arab teams. Unfortunately, they have incredible spending power, and no Italian team, nor even a European one, I believe, can compete with them.

https://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/mercato/atalanta/retegui-al-qadsiah-67-milioni-cessione-record-per-l-atalanta_100840347-202502k.shtml

That's insane amounts of transfer for Rategui. Earning 6x salary from his current salary is obviously hard to reject. That's wage he will never get in europe even until he retires.

Also Atalanta is so good in playing a real life football manager. This why i like the way Atalanta doing football business. They always efficient in selling the players. It's started with Rasmus, then Rategui. Losing him is not hurting the club as Scamacca is back from his injury.

Good point, scamacca is returning from injury but I am not sure Atalanta will rely solely on him, they will most likely buy someone in this market session.
Retegui has made his choice, he is a professional and the earnings offered by Saudi Arabian teams are hard to refuse, who knows if we will ever see him again in Europe