The woof brigade like James Horncastle adore Gasperini. His Atalanta side won the Europa League against Leverkusen in Dublin in the 2023/24 season & Celtic played them last season in the CL. He plays 3 at the back & it’s very aggressive - high intensity, hard pressing & pushing right up with the defence playing high.
It can be fluid then ahead of them with lots of rotations & interchanges & working overloads. 352, 3412, 343, 3421. You might have had Lookman playing wide left of the front three in one part of the game but then playing inside as one of the two behind a loan striker in other moments. As lads are drifting into one position, there’s another couple moving somewhere else based off them. It’s similar to how Mickey Harte coached O’Neill & Canavan (& later Mulligan) to base their movements off Brian McGuigan & each other.
Lots of reports that Roma are trying to offload Dovbyk - he wasn’t too impressive in his debut season - so Ferguson has a good chance of featuring, especially given Gasperini’s commitment to attacking & getting forward players on the pitch.
I guess the opening game team selection will tell a lot. He’ll be expected to lead the pressing from the front & do an awful lot of running/sprinting & he hasn’t looked physically fit in the last couple of seasons, never mind march sharp, so let’s see how he gets on.