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Giuntoli, who was formally unveiled in his new role this week, addressed a number of ongoing transfer situations in his opening press conference, including the departures of Marco Palestra to Chelsea and Ederson to Manchester United.<\/span><\/p>\n On Ahanor, who has been the subject of interest from several English clubs including a reported bid from Brighton, Giuntoli was unequivocal.<\/span><\/p>\n “We want to keep our jewels. There are many rumours around, but we do not want to sell anyone.”<\/span><\/p>\n The sporting director also confirmed Carnesecchi’s future lay in Bergamo.<\/span><\/p>\n “We will start again with him. Marco will stay at Atalanta and we are certain this group can do well.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n On the departure of Palestra, whose move to Chelsea has been the subject of criticism from Inter president Beppe Marotta, Giuntoli defended the club’s conduct throughout the process.<\/span><\/p>\n “Everyone was aware of everything, he has gone to a great club and he will represent Italy. We were fair with all parties.”<\/span><\/p>\n Asked about Ederson’s proposed move to Manchester United, Giuntoli struck a different tone, revealing the club had opened talks over extending the Brazilian’s stay after United pulled out of the deal on medical grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n “Over the years, Atalanta have always been a team that didn’t declare targets, but worked with humility while doing extraordinary things. Ederson? We were surprised. He is happy to stay and we are working on the renewal.”<\/span><\/p>\n Ahanor has emerged as one of the most in-demand young defenders in Europe following a breakthrough campaign, with Brighton having lodged a bid in the region of \u00a330m for the 18-year-old, while Chelsea and Arsenal have also been credited with interest. Atalanta signed the centre-back from Genoa for an initial \u20ac20m last summer, and he remains under contract until 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n Giuntoli’s comments suggest Atalanta are under no financial pressure to cash in further after already banking significant fees from the Palestra and Ederson deals this summer, with the club instead focused on strengthening around the players they intend to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Giuntoli, who was formally unveiled in his new role this week, addressed a number of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}