Juventus wanted the midfielder at all costs, but the offer coming from Arabia is impossible to refuse. What is going on.
It is likely that Cristiano Giuntoli himself can’t wait for this season to finally come to an end. Of course, there is still the Italian Cup final to be played, which could give the Bianconeri a trophy that has been missing for three years now, but the feeling is that the priority for the club is now to move on.
John Elkann himself, moreover, did not hesitate to define this season as “a year zero” from which to start again, also because, having overcome the exclusion from the cups that the Old Lady had to suffer this year due to the judicial consequences of the Prisma investigation, the club now has free hands to re-establish the club.
And it is not wrong to say that this is what is about to begin in the summer, Giuntoli’s first real transfer market as Juventus sporting director. This first year has in fact served the Juventus manager to adapt to a profoundly different reality from what he had experienced in his eight years at Castel Volturno as Napoli’s sporting director, and become familiar with a new corporate structure.
Now, however, Juventus will have to rebuild themselves on the market and the objectives are clear, and had already been revealed by Giuntoli in one of his first interviews as Juventus sporting director, in which he explained how the priorities were those of lowering the wage bill, thinning out the roster and decreasing the average age.
Juventus will sell at least one top player in the summer
For this reason, it is very likely that one or two top Juventus players will be sacrificed to raise cash, and Giuntoli will have to be good at replacing them, alternating the purchase of young talents with that of technical and experienced players, which however do not have a price tag that is too high.
And there was a midfielder on whom the sporting director was focusing decisively, and who however now risks ending up in Saudi Arabia. the break between Lazio and Luis Alberto now seems incurable, with the midfielder ready to leave the capital at the end of the season.
Giuntoli disappointed, the negotiation now seems to be over
Giuntoli, strong of the now unsolvable disagreements between Luis Alberto and the clubwas doing everything to convince the footballer to land in Turin, convinced that he could obtain from Lotito a price for his price tag that was affordable for Juventus’ pockets.
The problem is that a very important offer has arrived from Saudi Arabia from an economic point of view for the Biancoceleste, who is currently considering whether to end his career by accepting this offer. and therefore leaving European football. It’s difficult to understand if it will really go like this, but for sure, Giuntoli no longer seems confident about the outcome of this negotiation.
