Giuntoli’s Juventus revolution begins with Thiago Motta’s official status. The ball returns to the center of Juventus, bouncing off the stands of the Allianz Stadium until it forms the new coach’s initials on the pitch: this was the metaphor chosen to describe the turning point, broadcast for the first time on all Juventus channels. A message to unified social networks for a team that wants to be young, in its interpreters and concepts: modern, effective, with the ball as the protagonist. A way to update the motto coined by Boniperti: winning remains the most important thing, but now so is the path to achieving them. A three-year journey that opens the Giuntoli era: after a season of adjustment, the director took control of Juventus. On the pitch it will be up to Motta, a coach with modern ideas that he will put into practice with intense training, but also with the market, chasing the right profiles to rejuvenate the Old Lady and revolutionize the most conservative club in Italian football.
Thiago Motta wants few fixed points
Few fixed but essential points: twenty starters, none with a guaranteed place, to be competitive on all fronts. Complete and flexible footballers, who adapt to roles, positions, to his football made up of space occupation, pressure, aggression. In front of Di Gregorio, good with his feet and reactive between the posts, the four-man defense will have the very confirmed Bremer in the center, who Giuntoli and Motta would like to support Calafiori, a left-footed central defender who Bologna is trying to retain but who has already expressed his desire to dress in black and white. Di Lorenzo remains a concrete objective, Cambiaso the certainty after a year as a protagonist, Danilo the experience, both as a goalscorer and as a winger. In midfield, the coup of the summer is one step away, the manifesto of Juventus’ ambition: Douglas Luiz of Aston Villa guarantees the leap in quality on advantageous conditions.
Hujisen and Soulé to get to Koopmeiners
The 18 million plus Iling-Junior and McKennie are the price to pay to secure Casemiro’s heir in the Brazilian national team. Koopmeiners remains the midfielder of dreams, which could become reality with the sacrifice of Hujisen and Soulé, on which West Ham is back strong, while the renewal of Rabiot would transform the midfielder into the beating heart of Motta’s game. In attack, with Chiesa ever closer to the start (Rome or Naples), Vlahovic will be the point of reference: Yildiz is ready for consecration with the number 10 on his shoulders, the market will do the rest. Wingers are needed: Greenwood has already said yes to Juventus, even if the resistance of Manchester United remains to be broken, stuck in the request of 50 million for the talent reborn at Getafe. The most intriguing idea, however, lies in the other half of Manchester, the City-branded one: the left-footed Savinho, a 20-year-old Brazilian who was unknown before exploding at Girona, is the right profile to get the Motta project off the ground. Made of ideas, intriguing players and of course the ball, which has returned to the center of Juve.
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