Giuntoli, OFFICIAL: blow to the current season | He can already play in the Italian Cup, emergency over

Giuntoli surprises everyone, it’s finally official and can be considered a real market coup. Here’s what’s happening.

The press conference presenting Cristiano Giuntoli as the new sporting director of Juventus, which took place at the beginning of last summer, it was a real blow to the heart for the Neapolitan fans.

In fact, no one expected that the man who held the role of sporting director of Napoli for eight years, establishing himself as one of the absolute protagonists of the virtuous path that finally brought the third scudetto to the Campania city, was a die-hard Juventus fan from an early age.

Giuntoli actually said that he and his father were true Juventus fans, of those who took a bus and agreed to spend hours on the motorway just to go and see their favorite team play. That’s why, he explained in that press conference, becoming an Old Lady executive was for him a dream that comes truean ambition he had nurtured since childhood.

And this also explains how the sporting director has decided to accept such a difficult challenge. In fact, when it became clear that Giuntoli would leave Napoli after eight years, many were convinced that his next destination would be a top European club where he could finally compete every year to win the Champions League, with a budget for the market that is finally very important.

The Giuntoli era at Juventus

Instead Giuntoli, by agreeing to become the new sporting director of the Bianconeri, he chose a very different challengein which he is asked to carry out work on the market, all too similar to the one he carried out in Castel Volturno.

Juventus in fact must first redress its accounts, and therefore it will take a few years, as the sporting director himself declared at his first Christmas dinner with Juventus, to become truly competitive again. Giuntoli’s era at the Vecchia Signora began in January, when the first players chosen by him arrived. However, Alcaraz has played very little at the moment with Allegri, while Djalo has not yet been used even for a minute on the pitch.

Juventus, emergency over: Djalo ready to debut

But then Giuntoli himself explained that their purchases arrived with awareness that the next season would be the real testin which they would have to prove that they were from Juventus.

In the last few hours, however, the indiscretion has arrived according to which Allegri is finally ready for the Portuguese defender to make his debut. The coach from Livorno has in fact decided to give him space and playing time in Juventus’ next match in the Italian Cup. Therefore, all that remains is to wait also because this is a defender on whom Giuntoli has placed a lot of focus, convinced that he can become a top player in his role in the coming years.