The Juventus coach is under contract until June with an automatic extension in the event of qualification for the Champions League, but Continassa is willing to bring forward the timing of a new long-term agreement
Journalist
December 31st – 8.15am – TORINO
Two months of Luciano Spalletti and something has moved: a lot to tell the truth. The starting point is known – self-esteem and results – the arrival point is a question mark which, however, is worth a good amount of credibility built on team adrenaline and renewed ambitions. So what? The pact of eight months together could soon be superseded by an agreement or, better yet, a project until June 2028: the first reflections on the topic have been opened, the will between the parties converge. Juventus needs, more than ever at this stage of its history, safe, expert, authoritative and capable leadership. The Tuscan coach entered the Juventus world with all of himself and understood that within this world every little detail is there to play for him, his reaffirmation and his professional rebirth after the dull adventure in blue.
Juventus-Spalletti harmony
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Two months ago, the signature: in June the expiry of a contract between parties who were betting on each other. The automatic renewal in the event of the end of the season with the pass for the next Champions League in your pocket is true and obvious, but not exhaustive: otherwise talking about programming would make no sense. So what? If the journey is not the destination but the path, what the former coach is building is not at all trivial: traps are around every bend, but Spalletti has shown that he knows how to defuse the many ones encountered so far. The empathy at Continassa is total and it is between the various components: in the Juventus headquarters the tasks are well defined but, at the same time, you play as a team even away from the pitch. The market is the most immediate proof of this: Spalletti knows the economic context in which he is called upon to move and moves accordingly. His personality and his past put him at the center of the scene and, on stage, the script, more or less emphatic, does not clash: maximum mutual respect and maximum understanding. Thus the conditions are being created so that a new agreement can be rewritten before the aforementioned path reaches its end and, therefore, before the eight months underlying the wedding at the end of October.
shoulder horizon
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Juventus needs to broaden their time horizon, Spalletti needs to be able to design the squad for the immediate future so as not to have to resort to his ingenious, but sometimes forced “plays”. Two months ago the call and, in a few hours, the handshake: club and manager agreed on everything. In the next few weeks – at the end of the first phase of the Champions League – the new white smoke may take shape and substance: Spalletti’s work is not going unnoticed even outside of Continassa; losing him, for Juventus, could feel like an own goal. Translated: the future is born now and not in May when the games are over. Going beyond the eight months of the current agreement would also have a profound meaning for the dressing room and, in particular, for those Yildiz-style profiles looking for confirmations and guarantees on a tomorrow as protagonists so as not to be tempted by the courtship of others. Spalletti 2028 is a hypothesis already on the table of CEO Damien Comolli: the coach from Certaldo is focused exclusively on what he must do every day to improve the individuals and the group, the club has no intention of adopting the pressing mode, so the point of contact to prolong the marriage will be found as a logical consequence of a relationship of mutual esteem. See you soon, the road is marked.
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