At Bologna we are turning the page after a great season which led the team coached by Thiago Motta to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in their history. 24 hours after the announcement of Juventus, which chose the Italian-Brazilian coach as Massimiliano Allegri’s successor, the Emilian club presents his new coach Vincenzo Italiano. A conference which was also attended by the rossoblù CEO Claudio Fenucci, who did not shy away from questions about the transfer market. In particular on the future of Riccardo Calafioridefender born in 2002 in the sights of Juventus.
“On Calafiori the desire is to confirm a large part of this season’s squad. We want to move forward with this group which can still improve. We prefer to continue with them at the moment we have already communicated to his agent that we have no intention of moving the player“, declared the Bologna manager. Purchased from Basel in the summer of 2023 for 4 million euros, the defender currently involved with the national team at the European Championships is under contract until June 2027 and has a very important market valuation, considering that in in the event of a sale, 50% of the amount should be paid to Basel, by virtue of the agreements made with the Swiss company.
Juventus, in the person of the head of the technical area Cristiano Giuntoli, has already reached an agreement in principle with the player’s agent, Alessandro Lucci, on the basis of a 5-year contract at 2.5 million euros net per season . The Juventus club would like to invest a figure close to 25 million for the defender who has grown exponentially in terms of performance under the management of the new coach Thiago Motta, while Bologna’s request is not less than 50 million.
