Cairo was convinced he could get the player for free, but now Juventus has entered the negotiation, ready to pay ten million euros.
It is perhaps not so wrong to say that this adventure which began last year at Juventus, it could be the most difficult challenge Cristiano has ever taken on in his career.
A strong statement, also because we are talking about a manager who, between the eight years spent at Carpi, and the same number spent immediately afterwards in Naples serving De Laurentiis, has always had to deal with very complicated situations which required a real sporting re-foundation.
Maybe there was less pressure at Carpi, as the team was missing in the minor leaguesand no one expected that Giuntoli, by completely revolutionizing the club’s internal scouting system, could become the architect of the triple jump up to Serie A.
And even at Napoli no one even dared to say the word scudetto before his arrival and his choice to put Maurizio Sarri at the center of the project, always making a market attentive to economic sustainabilitybut which could at the same time help the Tuscan coach in his climb up the championship, which was unfortunately held back at the time only by Allegri’s first Juventus, which proved to be simply unbeatable in the championship.
The difficult mission of the Juventus sporting director
The problem is that at Juventus the pressure that Giuntoli has to endure is much more suffocating than what he was used to with the Neapolitan club, but on the other hand we are talking about a club that, year after year, never misses an opportunity to reclaim the motto “Winning is the only thing that matters”.
And it will be difficult for the sporting director to manage the pressure from the fans, given that the club is in a phase in which it will not be as much as possible to spend as in the past.
Cairo furious, Juventus anticipated him
And Giuntoli was hired precisely to win this challenge, and build a competitive team in the coming years despite a very small budget on the market. And it seems that the sporting director is very close to closing a deal which is sending Turin president Urbano Cairo into a rage.
In fact, the Granata have been following for a long time Miranchuk of Atalanta, seen as the ideal attacking midfielder to strengthen the team. but according to some rumors, the Bianconeri have suddenly entered the negotiations in recent weeks, and now seem close to convincing the Bergamo players with an offer which should be around ten million euros.
