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well I mean he’s had a fantastic structure around him so sporting director javanni Satori he’s subsequently gone and left but the team he’s at bologna just qualified for the Champions League so incredible recruitment Atlanta used to be a Yoo Club yeah they would measure their success on whether they got promoted or they stayed up got to 40 points but they also were known as the nursery of Italy great Academy and gasparini one of his real strengths has been promoting young players not afraid to do that not afraid to use this Academy his first great Atlanta team he lost his first five games and normally an owner would panic in that situation say you’re gone he said I’m going to play the kids and they qualifi for the Champions League they’ve done that four times reached three copy tell finals and they’re now in their first European final you know one of the things that impressed me most James about them is is kind of their recruitment they buy players that nobody else is really in the mark for and sell them for absolute fortunes still play attacking football um and I find that remarkable you think about all the money wasted in the Premier League on transfers that don’t fit these guys almost don’t miss which is remarkable yeah absolutely I mean they are the best run Club in Italy over the last eight years not a shadow of a doubt for the Academy as I mentioned which has always been there but for that recruitment as well I mentioned Satori Satori came to fame with Koo Keo were a small team on the outskirts of Verona no one had heard of got them into the Champions League he did the same here and again that ability to find place like Rasmus hland who in the space of the year can go to become an 85 million player that man united that allows gasparini to rebuild reinvest this is probably his third great team in 8 years they’ve all got more or less the same identity and they’ve all been really competitive so