If its passage to Olympique de Marseille marked on the side of Ligue 1, it has actually been less than a year and a half that Adrien Rabiot left Serie A. Player of Juventus Turin between 2019 and 2024, the tricolor international midfielder is preparing to find his former club. This Sunday, the one that is committed this summer with AC Milan moves to Turin with the Rossoneri (8:45 p.m., 6th day).
As part of an interview with Dazn, the former PSG spoke about this return which is necessarily very special for him.
“I am happy to be back in Serie A. It will be moving for me to find Juve. I spent five very beautiful years there. »» Seasons during which he was trained by different figures of Italian football, including Andrea Pirlo and Massimiliano Allegri.
It was the latter, who arrived on the Milanese bench during the summer, who was forcing so that Milan recruited an Adrien Rabiot taken in a controversy on the side of OM after an altercation with Jonathan Rowe, and pushed out by the Ciel et Blanc club. Staying a year on the Canebière, Rabiot could have stayed at Juventus which was ready to extend it. The two parties had not heard, the player's clan requesting a salary increase refused by the “old lady”.
AC Milan of Adrien Rabiot Leader of Serie A
After five days of the championship, AC Milan occupies the head of the Serie A ranking with the same number of points as Naples, but a better difference in goals. Juventus is not far since it does not in fourth position behind AS Rome, only to one point from the Milanese leader.
Sunday evening at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Adrien Rabiot will return to known territory. It remains to be seen how he will be welcomed by his former supporters and if he will be able to weigh sufficiently on the game of his new team whose last success against Juve in the championship is not so distant and dates back to May 2023 (0-1). Turinois at the time, French necessarily remembers it.