Player Analysis: Robin Gosens

“I wanted to be a police officer; I was quite certain of that. When my grandfather first put me in his police car when I was seven, I thought I would follow in his footsteps. If it hadn't worked out in football, I probably would have gone down that route first. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't have to because I don't think I would have been happy in the long run.”

Those were the words of Robin Gosens in an interview on the DFB website in December 2020. After a slow start to his professional career, the 27-year-old has developed into one of the best attack-minded defenders in the world and he was arguably Germany’s best player in what was an underwhelming Euro 2020 for Die Mannschaft.

The German has had a meteoric rise since arriving at Italian club Atalanta in the summer of 2017 and the left wing-back has been linked with some of the biggest football clubs in Europe such as Juventus, Inter, and Barcelona as well as English Premier League clubs like Manchester City and Leicester City. To prize him away from Bergamo though, interested clubs will have to pay at least €40 million for the 27-year-old.

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