Atalanta, a decisive week for Gasperini's future: Bergamo is rooting for him to stay

Bergamo, 18 May 2025 – The week that is opening could be decisive for the future of Gian Piero Gasperini, the technician of all the records of theAtalanta. As confirmed by last night's victory in Genoa: thirteenth away victory in a single championship.

To climb to the top 74 points, establishing the third new record, the third best result ever for the Nerazzurri after the 78 points of the two consecutive seasons 2019-20 and 2020-21, improving on the 72 points of the 2016-17 season.

All records set in these nine years of Gasperini cycle. That all the black and blue Bergamo hopes to see again on the Atalanta bench for the next season, it would be the tenth, and for the following ones.

The banner at Marassi 

On Saturday evening at Marassi, the Atalanta fans present in the away section displayed a banner reading “Gaspersempre”, to hope for his permanence in the Nerazzurri. Bergamo hopes that Gasperini will stay, as demonstrated on Monday evening at Gewiss by the 22 thousand Atalanta fans with the long standing ovation dedicated to the coach from Grugliasco at the end of the match won against Roma.

Even on social media the thermometer is unanimous: the Nerazzurri fans hope that the coach from Grugliasco will stay, accepting a new contract renewal until 2027.

Marten de Roon, captain of Atalanta

The captain

The same goes for the locker room. On Monday evening, the captain and flag bearer was on point Marten de roon, the leader of the group, was blunt: “I will ask the coach to stay, because the result counts and the coach always brings this: he is fantastic in tactics and always manages to motivate the team. I know him well by now and I hope he stays”.

 The Gasp thought

  The week that is starting could be the decisive one. Yesterday in Genoa Gasp glossed over his future, explaining: "Now we are focused on closing the championship in the best way possible in front of our fans, who supported us with warmth and enthusiasm in each of our home games, to celebrate in the best way with our fans because seasons like these must be celebrated in the best way possible. It was not a "normal" goal, behind us there are top teams who would do anything to be in the position where we are".