Atalanta stopped negotiations with Torino for Miranchuk at the request of coach Gasperini

Atalanta CEO Luca Percassi announced the suspension of negotiations with Torino on the transfer of Russian midfielder Alexei Miranchuk.

Earlier it was reported that the transfer of 26-year-old Miranchuk to Torino is being delayed because the clubs cannot agree on the amount of the buyout after the player’s loan.

There are a lot of operations in football and, as always, if they are not finalized, they cannot be reported. Something will happen in the next few hours. Pinamonti? A good player, but Atalanta has a lot of attacking players: Miranchuk, Pasalic, Zapata, Muriel. Let’s see what happens, but we must always take into account the depth of the composition.

We negotiated with Torino, but after a long conversation with our team coach Gian Piero Gasperini, he asked us to detain Miranchuk. This operation is currently stopped. After long negotiations, Gasperini asked us to keep him at the club,” Corriere dello Sport quotes Percassi.

Miranchuk moved to Atalanta from Lokomotiv for 14.5 million euros in 2020. In the Italian team, he played 56 games, scored 9 goals and gave 7 assists.