With a Coppa Italia won, Juventus saved the furniture from a fairly disappointing season. With checkered results for more than a month, the Piedmontese management, structured around Cristiano Giuntoli and Giovanni Manna, had already announced the departure of Massimiliano Allegri at the end of the season. If certain details remained to be resolved, the episode of his falling out with a journalist precipitated his ouster. Juve thus formalized the end of its collaboration with its technician, citing reasons “behavior incompatible with the values of Juventus”. Then everything accelerated with Thiago Motta, management’s favorite for months, who announced in Bologna his desire to leave the club for another project despite the Rossoblu’s qualification for the Champions League. A 3-year contract will be signed by the former PSG midfielder and formalization is imminent in Italy.
Dismissing Allegri and signing Motta has been the main objective of the new Turin management led by Cristiano Giuntoli for several months now. The time has therefore come for changes on the bench of Juventus, which is preparing to write a new page in its history in a new sporting project focused in particular on youth around leaders already present such as Gleison Bremer, Federico Chiesa and Dusan Vlahovic. The installations of Kenan Yildiz, Fabio Miretti, Hans Nicolussi Caviglia and Andrea Cambiaso in the rotation are irrefutable proof of this. Just like winter recruits Tiago Djaló and Carlos Alcaraz. Without forgetting the presence of Nicolò Fagioli and Samuel Iling-Junior. A great group of youngsters to which we must add the trio of young nuggets loaned to Frosinone, Enzo Barrenechea, Matias Soulé and Kaio Jorge. But despite these forces, Thiago Motta asked for significant reinforcements this summer in almost all positions, which Juventus is determined to offer him.
Agreements already reached, players monitored
As we exclusively revealed to you last week, Italian defender Riccardo Calafiori has attracted the spotlight this year as well as great envy. According to our information, Juventus has a verbal agreement with the young Italian prodigy who could well follow Thiago Motta to the Old Lady, considering him as one of his great protégés. In addition, according to our indiscretions, FC Basel, the Italian’s former team, is following the matter very closely because the Swiss club has a resale clause estimated at 40% if the amount of Riccardo’s departure transaction Calafiori came to exceed 4 million euros. But that’s not all since according to our information, the Turin management has almost locked in the arrival of Michele Di Gregorio, the Monza goalkeeper who is coming off a very good season in Lombardy. An agreement exists between all parties and all that remains is to settle the final details. At 34, Wojciech Szczęsny is not sure of continuing his adventure with the Old Lady, while his contract will expire in June 2025.
Determined to put Juventus back very quickly on the Italian and European stage, Thiago Motta demanded several summer reinforcements. The Turin management has ticked off many names, starting with the Dutch midfielder, Teun Koopmeiners, as we already announced to you last season. The 26-year-old was one of the great shapers of the success of Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta and convincing the Bergamo leaders will not be easy since they are demanding nearly 40 million euros. In the other summer tracks, we find Domenico Berardi who is certainly not going to stay at Sassuolo since the Neroverdi have been officially relegated to Serie B. The other offensive reinforcement surveyed by Giuntoli is none other than Joshua Zirkzee from Bologna. Like Calafiori, the Dutch striker was one of Thiago Motta’s protégés in Emilia-Romagna. Competition looks set to be tough on this last issue.
