Giuntoli decided to call the former Juventus player de Ligt to ask the player for a favor. Here’s what’s happening, negotiations underway.
One can only give credit to Alfredo Pedullà, of having been the only sports journalist to speak, since the month of February, about Thiago Motta’s arrival at Continassa as the new coach of Juventus, at a time in which instead many took the reconfirmation as almost certain by Massimiliano Allegri.
Pedullà, however, has always insisted on the fact that the Juventus sporting director, who landed in Turin last summer after eight years spent in Naples, had decided for some time now that the Tuscan coach was no longer fit to lead the club.
Therefore supporting like Giuntoli had chosen Motta some time ago, who on the other hand was a coach who he strongly respected since his time at Napoli, and who in fact he had proposed to De Laurentiis after Spalletti’s farewell.
And probably awareness itself of no longer having a sporting director who didn’t believe in his technical projectbut who had already decided to replace him, will have contributed to increasing his nervousness, to the point of causing him to go into a rage after the Italian Cup final (which, moreover, had been won by the Bianconeri against Gasperini’s Atalanta) which he convinced the company to send him away immediately, before the end of the championship.
Juventus, no one expected the arrival of a top player like Douglas Luiz
Now the Juventus manager, who also presented himself at a press conference last year declaring that he had supported Juventus since he was a child, is finally free to start that revolution on the market that the club requested of him, in which he will have the task of to lower the wage bill while reducing the average age of the squadbut at the same time keep the team competitive.
And the first purchase seems to be going precisely in this direction, considering that, thanks to the inclusion of two counterparts such as Iling Junior and Barrechenea, Giuntoli is closing the negotiation to bring in Turin a top-level footballer like Douglas Luiz.
Juventus targets Xavi Simons, does Giuntoli take information from De Ligt?
And it seems that, moreover, this was a request from Motta, who would also have asked the sporting director to try to sign another young attacking midfielder. The new Juventus coach he strongly wishes to have the young attacking midfielder Xavi Simons in his team.
It won’t be easy for Giuntoli, given the cost of his price tag, but it seems like it the sporting director has decided to call the former Juventus player De Ligtgiven his Juventus past, to get information on this young talent and perhaps understand if the Dutchman, also being one of his national team teammates, can convince him that Juventus is the right team for him.
