There seems to be no peace for Djalo who could now be relegated from the first team: this is what is happening at Continassa.
As sports journalist Luca Momblano, one of the leading experts on what happens within the Juventus world, declared some time ago with the arrival in the January transfer window by Thiago Djalo and Alcarazthe Cristiano Giuntoli era at Continassa has officially begun.
In fact, the first six months of the new Juventus sporting director served him above all to become familiar with the environment and begin to connect with the new management that took office after the resignation of Andrea Agnelli.
Many, even among sports journalists, criticized Giuntoli for the fact that I did not make any purchases in the summer transfer market, with the sole exception of Weah, which however was a negotiation initiated by the previous sporting director Federico Cherubini.
But as Giuntoli later explained in an interview with Repubblica, the first tasks that the company had given him werethose to work on the sales front and set up a medium-term plan that would allow the squad to be thinned out, while at the same time lowering the salary and the average age of the team.
Giuntoli’s task at Juventus
A task that the new Juventus sporting director carried out admirably and away from the spotlightcarrying out important renewals such as that of Locatelli, and communicating well in advance to players like Alex Sandro that their contracts would not be renewed.
In January, however, Giuntoli began to choose and land in Turin the young talents on which he intends to build the Juventus of the future, and Djalo and Alcaraz, by age and characteristics, fit perfectly into the profiles sought by the sporting director. Ultimately, the management asks Giuntoli to carry forward the same philosophy that made him emerge in his eight years in Naples as one of the best sports directors of the old continent.
Djalo, Giuntoli has decided: away from the first team
And in these first years it will be fundamental for the sporting director not to miss any shots, because if there is one thing the new Juventus cannot afford it is to stay out of the Champions League for the next few years. And this is why despite the need to monetize from sales, the club cannot and must not weaken itself too much.
Djalo is considered by Giuntoli to be a player destined to become one of the pillars of the Juventus defense in the future, even if for now it remains a mysterious object. In fact, Allegri used him very little, also thanks to an injury suffered by the player. For this reason it seems that now Giuntoli and the Tuscan coach are agreeing to have him “relegated” for a few Juventus Next Gen matches in order to start acquiring minutes on the pitch and thus find the best condition.
