While the fans might be dreaming of new signings in the summer, Juventus are already impeded by their previous commitments.
Last summer, the club’s Football Director, Cristiano Giuntoli, conducted his first real transfer campaign after taking charge at Continassa. He ended up signing nine new players in a major summer overhaul that cost the club circa €180 million.
Moreover, the Bianconeri went on to sign another four players in January, thus raising the overall cost to €234 million.
Sadly for Juventus, these hefty figures haven’t exactly yielded success on the pitch. The club has been enduring a miserable campaign, thus prompting the club to sack Thiago Motta last Sunday and replace him with Igor Tudor in the hopes of restoring their lost pride.
While awaiting next summer, the Old Lady is being linked with a host of star names, including the likes of Victor Osimhen and Sandro Tonali.
However, IlBianconero notes that Juventus still have at least 80 million euros to splash on four players who are already among their ranks.
The first is Pierre Kalulu who is currently on loan from Milan. Juventus have long decided to exercise their option to buy the Frenchman, which will cost them 17 million between his transfer fee and bonuses.
Moreover, Michele Di Gregorio’s redemption will require another 15 million, while Nicolas Gonzalez will cost 30 million.
The Bianconeri are also determined to keep Francisco Conceicao, even though their initial agreement with Porto doesn’t include an option to buy. Nevertheless, Giuntoli has already guaranteed the Portuguese’s stay, but Juventus will have to spend 30 million euros to activate his release clause.
Therefore, unless the club secures Champions League football, it will be difficult to envision a busy transfer campaign for the Serie A giants who already have sizable amounts to settle just to maintain some of their current players.
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That’s why it’s hard for Juventus to keep all the Italian players. If Cambiaso performs like he did in the last 2 months it will be hard to sell him, and if he performs brilliantly (I don’t think so), it will be hard to keep him because the club needs money.
Due to the failed season (234 million spent OMG, even reaching the top 4 is doubtful), Giuntoli is looking forward to a harder summer than the previous one.
Need to be sold:
– Vlahovic (earns a lot and has 1 year left on his contract),
– Douglas Luiz (a very big flop, there’s nothing to hope for at the end of March),
– Lloyd Kelly(?).
The problem is that the team would need at least Hancko, Tonali and a striker, but selling these 3 players won’t even cover the buying costs of the loan players.
So Juventus can decide which of the following players to sell:
– Yildiz (still just a promise, maybe he will stay that way).
– Cambiaso (overrated player who has been injured continuously in recent months. When he played, he performed poorly).
– Bremer (A world class defender, BUT: selling him has been discussed before. Keeping him is risky because we don’t know what kind of performance he can give after his injury, but it is also possible that he will continue to play in the same good form).
The rest of the season can help make these decisions.
Unfortunately Juventus cannot be charitable, they can only keep players who perform well.
I think Giuntoli should be on the chopping block next season if this team under performs again. 30 million for Nico is an absolute disaster. We only got 15 million for husejien – which reports state they are looking for 60 million to send him to real. He really made a lot of bad choices. I mean coming into the season with one healthy striker? Depending on milik? I really doubt him, as much as motta at this point. We’ll see how the players perform under Tudor now that Motta is gone. It’s incredible how so many players just withered when they came here under Motta.
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