Federico Bernardeschi confirms he said ‘yes’ to Juventus immediately and had no doubts about making the move to Turin last summer.
The 23-year old made the switch from Fiorentina to Juventus 6 months ago but never hesitated when the Bianconeri made their interest known.
“I’m speaking from my point of view, from a personal point of view,” Bernardeschi told Mediaset.
“I never had any doubts. When I heard from them and they told me there was a desire on the part of Juve I said yes right away with no problems.
“Everyone does things in their own way though, and everyone must make decisions for himself.
“I think the best decision for me, for my career and for my future was to come here.
“I’ve always said, right from the start, that my objective was to work hard. To work humbly and with a lot of sacrifice to make a small step forward every day.
“That’s the objective and right now I’m succeeding, now there are another six months to do well and achieve the objectives set.
“I don’t have a target for total number of goals, no. My objective is to grow and improve.
“I want to keep doing better in this team and make myself more and more valuable, that’s my objective and that’s what I want to reach between now and the end of the year.
“Everyone has to work hard during the week to carve out a space which the Coach gives you. It’s normal that in a big team there are times when you don’t play much and then other times when you play more.
“It’s normal, I think it’s a growth process you have to go through. Of course with the injuries there’s more space and I’ll have to be ready as always.
“I like playing football, so it’s up to the boss to decide where, it’s not a problem for me. One day I’d like to be a modern trequartista.
“A modern player has to adapt to the team though. Once it was the team which adapted to the player, now a player has to adapt to the team he plays in.
“The more roles you can play, the better it is.
“The Scudetto? We’ll see. What’s certain is that right now it’s us and them, and for now it’s a two-horse race.
“Football is strange though and it’s long season, so we’ll see later on.
“I think though that the two teams who will fight for the Scudetto are ourselves and Napoli.”
“Higuain? Pipi is very serene, very calm. Maybe he scores less, but I’m looking at it from outside because I wasn’t at Juventus last year, so maybe then he worked less hard for the team and scored more goals.
“When you play together you realise the dirty work we’re doing to make us play better, to help our teammates.
“So if you don’t score for a few matches you can’t say anything as long as you’re running and battling for everyone.
“So it’s normal for there to be periods like this and a striker – especially one like him – knows that, he just needs to be calm, which he is.”
[Translation from Football-Italia.net]