Atalanta Headquarters — Gewiss OfficesBergamo4:15 PM
The boardroom on the third floor had a long table that seated twelve and a screen mounted on the far wall that currently showed a financial projection document in landscape format, though nobody at the table was looking at it because the conversation had moved past numbers and into the part where numbers meant something.
Antonio Percassi sat at the head of the table with his jacket still on and his hands folded in front of him, while Tony D'Amico was to his left with a folder open in front of him that he'd already been through twice and a pen he kept clicking without writing anything. The club's chief financial officer, Riccardo Marini, sat to Percassi's right with a printed spreadsheet in front of him and the patient expression of someone who'd done this before and understood that financial conversations in football rarely stayed financial for long.
