Atalanta announced the signing of a footballer from the Argentine national team in a shocking figure

Atalanta announced in the last hours the signing of the Argentine goalkeeper Juan Musso and formalized one of the highest investments in its history to acquire a booster. The footballer of 27 years, which is disputing the America’s Cup with the National Team, closed a three-season stage with a high level in the Udinese.

Although the clubs did not officially report the figures, the media Sky Sports detailed that the Bergamo entity disbursed some 20 million euros and made it one of the three highest incorporations in its history after the negotiations to hire the Colombians Luis Muriel (21.2 million euros to Sevilla) and Duvan Zapata (26 million euros to Sampdoria).

“Atalanta BC announces the definitive purchase of the footballer Juan Musso from Udinese”, detailed the website of the Italian club. Statistics indicate that Musso completed 104 games for Udinese, which had acquired it from Racing in 2018 in exchange for about $ 6 million.

“In the 2019-2020 season he also distinguished himself by being the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets in Serie A: he managed to keep a clean sheet in up to 14 games,” Atalanta described it to inform his hiring. It is estimated that the Argentine club could receive a percentage of the transaction.

The footballer who was born sportingly in the Academy de Avellaneda arrived at the National team in March 2019, when he played a friendly against Morocco under the command of Lionel Scaloni. Although he had other calls, including the current one to be part of the Copa América squad, he has not added minutes with the blue and white until now. Like Musso, another soccer player from the National Team signed his transfer in recent days: Nicolas Gonzalez closed his departure from VFB Stuttgart in Germany and made his move to Fiorentina from Italy.

Musso’s new team just recently sold to Muse barrow (to the Bolognia, for 14.5 million euros), Roger Ibanez (to Rome, for 9 million) and Andreas Cornelius (to Parma, for 8.4 million). He rushed the steps for the goalkeeper albiceleste because it was also in the orbit of Inter and Milan, at the same time that they needed to have hierarchical support because the holder Pierluigi gollini He is about to emigrate to Lazio.

The question now settles in La Boca, since Udinese could initiate negotiations for an old desire: Agustin Rossi, the goalkeeper who has all the chips to start in Boca after the departure of Esteban Andrada to Monterrey in Mexico.

It should be noted that Atalanta, with 78 units, finished in third place and was the highest scoring team in Serie A (90 in 38 games). They were also runners-up in the Italy Cup (2-1 against Juventus) and fell in the round of 16 of the Champions League (4-1 aggregate against Real Madrid).

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