To tell the truth I don't feel like Atalanta will be as competitive as the top contenders. They had a really good group stage first of all. They didn't lose any match. Of course two of their opponents in the group were too easy for them. Sporting were the most challenging one but Atalanta collected 4 points against them as well.
However I don't remember Atalanta much competitive in European cups like this. I mean an achievement like qualifying for the final stage at least. Because of that I think that they would be likely to get eliminated by a serious opponent for the title in one of the close stages.
I think they had some sort of situation where they were good for a few years, and most of those players that made the team were sold and they had trouble with getting players at those type of levels. This caused the team to be not that terrible, not like they are at relegation zone, but they can't be near the top anymore because of this.However I don't remember Atalanta much competitive in European cups like this. I mean an achievement like qualifying for the final stage at least. Because of that I think that they would be likely to get eliminated by a serious opponent for the title in one of the close stages.
When you lose money on the transfers, when you overpay for players then you do not have a fallback, there isn't anything you can do to make the team better, you just need to keep going and make some more money to get some players that are more decent. This roster rebuilding is a very very tough thing to do and that's why we are seeing this trouble, we are going to end up with some bigger issues for sure.
