Atalanta, Granata ideas to rejuvenate the midfield: Ricci and Ilic are popular

Bergamo, 19 June 2025 – Two Granata jewels for the Nerazzurri crown?

THEAtalanta - which in this phase of the market has already invested 40 million to redeem outright 23-year-old Serbian playmaker Lazar Samardzic from Udinese and 24-year-old Ivorian defender Odilon Kossounou from Bayer Leverkusen, both redeemed for 20 million each - smonitoring the two Torino midfielders, Samuele Ricci and Ivan Ilic, to strengthen his midfield and lower his average age, which is rather high considering the 34 years of age that Marten De Roon turned in March and the 30 of Mario Pasalic.

The two Toro players are being followed regardless of whether Ederson is sold or not: clearly, if the Brazilian were to leave in exchange for 60 million, there would be space and resources to even pull off a double move.

Ricci is especially liked, he is liked after De Roon, he is also liked as a purchase in perspective: Tuscan from Pontedera, raised in the prolific youth sector of Empoli that launched him at 18 years old in Serie B, the blue (10 appearances with Italy), born in 2002, then made the leap in quality to Torino under the orders of Ivan Juric. Who now would like him in Bergamo.

Milan has swooped down on Ricci and there are other big clubs, ready to start an auction to have him. Torino, where he made 36 appearances with 1 goal in the last season, values ​​him at around 30 million but the figure could be lowered by inserting a technical counterpart in the operation.

There are excellent relations between the two clubs, cemented over the years by various deals: in 2022, Duvan Zapata, Brandon Soppy, Aleksey Miranchuk arrived on the garnet bank of the Po from Bergamo, while Raoul Bellanova arrived from Torino last summer.

Another of Juric's obsessions is Ilic, launched by the Croatian coach at just 19 years old in Verona in 2020, his praetorian first on the banks of the Adige and then for two and a half years in Turin. The 24-year-old Serbian, who grew up in Manchester City, was stopped last season by physical problems that lowered his market value, around 16/18 million. They are, at the moment, the two main market options for the next Nerazzurri midfield.