{"id":173132,"date":"2024-04-19T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/19\/atalanta-manager-responds-to-liverpool-job-links-ahead-of-europa-league-quarter-final-second-leg\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:48:50","slug":"atalanta-manager-responds-to-liverpool-job-links-ahead-of-europa-league-quarter-final-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/19\/atalanta-manager-responds-to-liverpool-job-links-ahead-of-europa-league-quarter-final-second-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Atalanta manager responds to Liverpool job links ahead of Europa League quarter-final second leg \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gian Piero Gasperini is flattered by speculation linking him with Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp\u2019s successor but insists it is not something he is prepared to be distracted by.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are yet to appoint a replacement for Klopp, who is stepping down at the end of the season, having\u00a0prioritised building a fresh sporting structure\u00a0above the new manager first.<\/p>\n<p>Xabi Alonso ruled himself out of the running to stay with Bayer Leverkusen, leaving Sporting CP boss Ruben Amorim\u00a0as the new frontrunner. The likes of Roberto De Zerbi and Julian Nagelsmann also remain linked. But suggestions that Liverpool could also consider 66-year-old Gasperini emerged in the wake of his Atalanta team demolishing the Reds at Anfield last week.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing to face Liverpool again in the second leg of that Europa League quarter-final, Gasperini was asked the possibility of such a move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I am happy with links to the\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0job to replace Klopp but my focus is on the game. We can\u2019t be distracted by these kind of stories, we have to focus on the upcoming games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Initially building his coaching career in the youth ranks at Juventus in the 1990s, Gasperini has been with Atalanta since 2016 after previous jobs with Genoa, Inter and Palermo. He guided Atalanta, historically one of Italy\u2019s yo-yo clubs, to third place in Serie A in 2018\/19 and then to the Champions League quarter-finals the following season, maintaining third place twice more to keep qualifying.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hvp9jnhzv249xe0maj.jpg\" alt=\"Gian Piero Gasperini\" title=\"Gian Piero Gasperini\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Atalanta won 3-0 at Anfield last week \/ Stu Forster\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Gasperini\u2019s side won 2-0 at Anfield in the 2020\/21 group stage and reached the last 16 against Real Madrid, while only late Cristiano Ronaldo goals denied them home and away wins over Manchester United in 2021\/22. In this season\u2019s Europa League, Atalanta topped their group ahead of Amorim\u2019s Sporting CP, winning in Lisbon, and then knocked them out after being paired in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Italian hasn\u2019t been a core part of the discussion for Liverpool officials, with his sudden links to the job instead coming from his record in recent years being talked up in the media. Speaking after Atalanta\u2019s first leg win at Anfield,\u00a0Serie A\u00a0expert James Horncastle waxed lyrical on\u00a0<em>TNT Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a big vacancy here [at Liverpool] in the summer and that guy, Gian Piero Gasperini, doesn\u2019t get talked about,\u201d Horncastle said. \u201cIn eight years he\u2019s probably punched above his weight per his resources more than any other coach. I think he should be in the conversation for more of these jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve spent the last six weeks talking about Xabi Alonso coming here, Amorim coming here. This guy beat Amorim home and away at Sporting. He went four games against them unbeaten. He\u2019s shown he can build and rebuild teams. He\u2019s been there eight years, three different [Atalanta] teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Piero Gasperini is flattered by speculation linking him with Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp\u2019s successor but insists it is not something he is prepared to be distracted by. 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