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Seeing Cristian Romero go to Tottenham for a fee that will eventually reach €50m or so, Juventus can look back on a mistake that deal to Atalanta was.

Currently undergoing something of a rebuild following the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, the Serie A side are looking to bolster their defence in the summer, and yet they could have had the right man for the job already at the club… twice.

Calciomercato look at the ‘market errors’ the club have made recently, and one of them was letting the Argentine go on loan to Atalanta with such a small option to buy.

The player was meant to be there for two years, but the Bergamo side, knowing Tottenham were interested, triggered it a year early, spent £14.4m and then put together a deal with Spurs that will see them close to triple their money.

The website explain ‘the first sacrificed on the altar of balance and too much abundance was the Argentine Cristian Romero, who never had a real chance at Juventus only to explode first at Genoa and then at Atalanta’.

They then ‘immediately sold him to Tottenham to make a sensational capital game operation with a few days’ in the summer transfer window.

Whether Romero ends up being a hit at Spurs remains to be seen, but Antonio Conte is clearly happy with him, playing him when he’s been fit, admitting he was ideal for the Premier League.