not everything has a price for the future

There are those who say no.

“There’s something wrong with this sky, thereit’s someone who no longer knows what time it is.”

After a year of lights and shadows, waiting to conquer the mathematical qualification for the next Champions League, at Juve we are starting to think about the 2024/2025 season, which could potentially see the Bianconeri involved in around 70 matches. A situation that requires, without a shadow of a doubt, a more competitive squad, to be improved both quantitatively and qualitatively. A context that should lead the Old Lady, and more generally Italian clubs, to retain, first of all, their jewels, trying to improve further to reduce the gap with the big European clubs.

But, in all of this, there are those who say no.

Yes, because the Premier League, once again, seems to live in a world apart, far from the crisis that has hit our football. A football in which, unfortunately, everything and everyone seems to have a price, regardless of factors such as age, affection and talent. And not even Juventus today can afford to say no a priori, even if we are talking about a pillar (current or potential) of your squad.

“Some say here, some say there. I’m not moving.”

Who, faced with an offer from a top Premier League club, would respond today with a dry one “I’m not moving”? Probably no one, considering the current situation, which sees Italian football increasingly in difficulty, in the face of an English reality projected, for years now, into a future in terms of facilities, culture and management that our Federation can only achieve with its imagination… and perhaps artificial intelligence.

So, what will happen to those players owned by Juventus who have ended up in the sights of some English club? What to do in the face of incoming offers for Bremer and Soulè? Among the fans, regardless, “there are those who say no“in the hope that, in this football, “maybe something was saved, maybe it really wasn’t all wrong after all”.

From Soulè to Bremer, not everything has a price for the future… or maybe it does?

“You can’t do what you want, you can’t just push the accelerator. Look, we have to be satisfied. Here you can only lose”.

No, don’t get me wrong. I am absolutely not overturning the Bonipertian dogma of “Winning is not important, it is the only thing that counts”, which will be forever engraved in the history of the Juventus club. I’m just reiterating that, faced with the English powers on the market, Italian companies have no choice but to raise the white flag.

Even in the areas of Juventus Turin, they have realized this very recently. Manchester United, in fact, would be ready to pounce on Gleison Bremer at the end of the season, considering that, in the contract renewal until 2028 signed in December between the Brazilian defender and Madama, a release clause of 61 million euros was included. A figure that does not particularly frighten the English club and which makes many fans of the Old Lady turn up their noses, convinced that the former Granata centre-back is worth decidedly more. For the latter, “tothe devil (or rather, to the Red Devils) it’s not sold, it’s given away”. But this time too, “look at that, we have to be satisfied”.

So, if United dreams of Bremer, another player owned by Juventus, instead, dreams of the Premier League. This is Matías Soulè, fresh from an excellent season with Frosinone and a wonderful goal with Argentina’s U21s.

“I would like to stay at Juventus next year. If I could choose the league to go to I would say Premier League. It would be a dream to be there.”recently declared the striker born in 2003, who is very popular with Aston Villa and Newcastle, who are willing to offer up to 40 million euros to take him away from the Piedmontese capital.

At this point, therefore, the question is twofold: would the player resist the allure of England? But above all, could Juventus say no to a similar offer for Soulè and monetize for the future?

In all these reasonings, the hearts of the fans are inserted, fortunately still far from dynamics of this type, but increasingly anesthetized by a football in which feelings no longer prevail. “And in the end you don’t even cry anymore.”.

There are those who say no: because it still makes sense to hope

If on Bremer, in the event of an offer equal to the termination clause valid from 2025 (between the parties, however, there would be a verbal agreement to consider offers around that same figure already in the next summer transfer window), it will depend on the will of the player , the matter is decidedly different for the future of Soulè.

The Argentine footballer, like all Juventus players, is not included in the list of untransferable players and, despite the flashes of genius shown this year in Ciociaria, he has no certainty of being part of the Old Lady’s 2024/2025 squad. In fact, against a minimum offer of 40 million, the Juventus club will evaluate the sale of Frosinone’s number 18, a sum that will be partly reinvested on the market, with the aim of improving the quality of a team that, next year, will (probably) have to compete with the big clubs in Europe and (certainly) with the top teams in the world. But why look for quality elsewhere when you already have it at home? What more does Matias Soulè have to do to demonstrate that he deserves space and a future under the Mole?

And then, for both of us, there is nothing to do but wait. In the hope that, next year, at least one of the two will be able to continue (or start) writing important pages of Juventus history and will be able to proudly state in front of the cameras: “I’m still here, yeah”.

Maybe it won’t be a real ending, but it is the ending that Juventus fans hope to read and experience. “Like in fairy tales”.