Berat Djimsiti, born on 19 February 1993 (age 33), is an Albanian central defender with the frame for the job: a commanding 6ft 3in (1.90m). He is now with Al-Diriyah, and his market value is around £8.5m, according to Transfermarkt.
His senior career began to take shape at FC Zurich, where the 2014-15 league season was his most productive in front of goal: 33 appearances and two goals. That period, along with the early loan spells that followed, helped harden him into the kind of defender Atalanta would come to rely on rather than merely carry.
Atalanta is where Djimsiti’s career settled. Across nine seasons he made 254 league appearances and scored five league goals, a long spell built less on noise than on repeated selection, tactical usefulness and durability. For a centre-half, that is usually the point.
He has since moved on to Al-Diriyah, where he has made four Pro League appearances in 2026-27. The broad shape of his career is plain enough: early development in Switzerland, consolidation through loans, then a long and substantial body of work at Atalanta before this current spell in Saudi football.
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