Juventus director Beppe Marotta has confirmed that the club will not be signing Balde Keita or Patrik Schick this summer while Leonardo Spinazzola could remain at Atalanta for the season.
“Keita is a closed topic, just as Schick is a closed topic,” Marotta said at Blaise Matuidi’s presentation.
“It’s easy for you to say Milan, Juventus, or Roma, but for us it’s a closed topic.
“We’re good as we are, then maybe there will be some opportunities.
“Ezequiel Garay? He’s a top player, but the conditions aren’t there.
“Marchisio? It’s a situation which we’ve read or heard about. Symptoms of dissatisfaction absolutely do not exist at all within the club.
“Marchisio is part of this squad which increases its level of quality year-on-year, and also in midfield we’re different to a few years ago because there’s more competition.
“After that it’s up to the Coach to decide who plays. However, it must be noted that we played 57 official matches last year, along with the international ones, so we really need a competitive squad.
“It’s normal that Marchisio can’t always play, and the same goes for Khedira or Matuidi. It’s very normal.
“Spinazzola? It’s well known that he’s our player, our asset.
“It’s common knowledge that we need a profile like his within our squad, but it’s also true we entered into a two-year agreement with Atalanta which we want to honour, because there’s mutual respect between us.
“The fact remains though that this young lad knows Juventus have this need. And, being owned by Juventus, knowing full well that this is an important opportunity, it’s normal that he’s putting on pressure to come to us.
“That’s then going up against the scheduling of Atalanta who quite rightly started planning for their season a long time ago.
“If, in the end, it’s decided that the player will stay there it’ll be up to Atalanta to re-motivate him.
“I want to point out that I spoke to Antonio Percassi yesterday and the relationship between us is good.
“Right now in football there’s this continuous dynamic of players not turning up to training or who have to handle certain situations.
“In my opinion Spinazzola’s behaviour is the normal, spontaneous reaction of someone who knows he has the chance to wear the Juventus shirt, and that’s not a small thing.
“We’ve spoken to Spinazzola in recent days and made it clear that we have confidence in him.
“Of course it’s clear that everything can change from year to year and nothing is guaranteed for the future.”
They are closed topic, because we need none of them. The attack is really good as it is and adding more fridge players would create more problems than is inteded to solve.
Marchisio will go nowhere, unless they are 100% sure they can get someone of Verrati’s or Kroos calibre. Otherwise, losing a player of this level and character does not make any sense at all.
What I do not get, is the Spinazzola Saga. Why on earth do we push so much for him (and not Caldara instead) if we have Asamoah?Unless a crazy offer comes for him (Galata is on him) I would like to see him staying with us until he hangs out his boots. I consider him to be an upgraded version of Padoin: he plays everywhere they ask him to, never complains , gives his best on every occasion…is a good soldier who does not care to promote his own image…So a stay-stay every day
Asamoah probably wants to leave.. He is a prominent Ghanian international on a world cup year, is young and finally healthy, and won’t be playing nearly any minutes. I would also want a move if I were him at his age; he will never bench Alex Sandro (not this season or the following ones).. I would also like him to stay, however.
Spinazzola is not necessarily a like for like replacement of Asamoah as he is right-footed and prefers to play on the right. Since both De Sciglio and Spinazzola play both flanks, either of them could end up playing on the right while the other backs up Alex Sandro.
Agreed on Spinazzola. Asamoah is a different story though. He refused to join up for AFCON last time in order to get fit and fight for playing minutes in black and white. Plus, we talk about Ghana, is not that they have many other options in LB,WL, not on his level at least….
I really hope you are right on the Marchisio note. I have become so used to him, taking him from granted and always “knowing” he would be here as long as he wants to. Later on becoming a mister, director or something. In the end it’s his decision to make, and we all know the club has a sell whenever the players wants to leave policy. No matter who we potentially would bring in, and let’s be honest it wouldn’t be a Pogba, Veratti, Kroos or Thiago Alcantara. It would be more of a something called a brozovic. That’s not the point, the point is he is bandiera, one of us…its his house, he is a part of the big black and white family. He is so much more than just a midfielder. We can’t replace that by signing a replacement. The guy wasn’t bought and taught how the wear the jersey and what it means. He was born into it.
After the Bonnucci saga I realized that nothing is engraved in stone. Everything is possible in this crazy football world. I just hope that Il Principino will be with us until the end.
Exactly my point of view. He is ireplacable and the only reason to even think of selling him, is to have something big on the cards. By the way, a big spent is not that much of a fantasy if you consider the fact that we only spent like 25 M(GK and RB) from our budget. I suspect there is another 60-80M waiting if something special apears….