{"id":597717,"date":"2021-07-31T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597717"},"modified":"2021-07-31T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T12:41:05","slug":"matteo-lovato-completes-atalanta-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/31\/matteo-lovato-completes-atalanta-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Lovato Completes Atalanta Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/30\/tottenham-hotspur-still-leading-race-for-cristian-romero\/\" target=\"_self\">Atalanta<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atalanta_BC\/status\/1421413551995035650\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">completed the signing<\/a> of Italian U21 international Matteo Lovato from Hellas Verona. The Italian has put pen to paper on a four-year contract with an option for another year. The deal could see Lovato remain at Gewiss Stadium until 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Atalanta Sign Matteo Lovato<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">\u26ab\ufe0f \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud83d\udd35<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Lovato \u00e8 un nuovo giocatore dell\u2019Atalanta! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc Benvenuto, Matteo! \ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lovato?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Lovato<\/a> is a new Atalanta player! \ud83e\udd1d Welcome, Matteo! \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoAtalantaGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoAtalantaGo<\/a> \u26ab\ufe0f\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Su9r2ye2D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Su9r2ye2D1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atalanta B.C. (@Atalanta_BC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atalanta_BC\/status\/1421413551995035650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Lovato Becomes the Third Player to Join Atalanta this Transfer Window<\/h3>\n<p>Atalanta have confirmed the signing of Matteo Lovato from Hellas Verona. La Dea have reached an agreement with Hellas Verona to sign the centre back for a total transfer fee of \u20ac11 million. The Gialloblu will receive a guaranteed payment of\u00a0 \u20ac8 million with an additional \u20ac3 million in added bonus. Padova and Genoa will share 15% of the transfer fee between each other owing to their previous sale agreements for Lovato.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian graduated from the Padova academy and made his debut for the senior side in 2019 in the third division of Italian football, Serie C. Lovato&#8217;s impressive displays caught the eye of Hellas Verona. Simultaneously, the Italian also earned his first-ever call-up to the U21 national squad.<\/p>\n<p>Lovato had his breakthrough at Hellas Verona last season. The defender made full use of the void left by Marsh Kumbulla, who moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/29\/roma-close-to-signing-eldor-shomurodov-from-genoa\/\" target=\"_self\">AS Roma<\/a> on loan at the start of the 2020\/21 season. The defender established himself as a regular in the first team, making 24 appearances for Hellas Verona last season as they finished 10th in Serie A.<\/p>\n<h3>The Potential Replacement for Cristian Romero?<\/h3>\n<p>Matteo Lovato arrives as the potential replacement for Cristian Romero. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/29\/replacing-toby-alderweireld\/\" target=\"_self\">The Argentine\u2019s future at Atalanta is in doubt with Tottenham Hotspur keen to add the central defender<\/a>. Romero is keen on joining the English side but both sides are yet to reach an agreement over the transfer fee of the 23-year-old. The arrival of Lovato increases the chances of Tottenham Hotspur finally signing their target.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"vyRaFMqwRJNRrcRntbCXww\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1233084381\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'vyRaFMqwRJNRrcRntbCXww',sig:'10hqbYBtk21W0d8VG4_B0IQN7Hj-v0oO3LVhx-pXsNQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233084381',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atalanta have completed the signing of Italian U21 international Matteo Lovato from Hellas Verona. The Italian has put pen to paper on a four-year contract with an option for another year. The deal could see Lovato remain at Gewiss Stadium until 2026. Atalanta Sign Matteo Lovato \u26ab\ufe0f \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud83d\udd35 Matteo Lovato \u00e8 un nuovo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":597728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[1064,6759,8783],"class_list":["post-597717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","category-transfers","tag-atalanta","tag-hellas-verona","tag-matteo-lovato"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}