Hot end to the transfer window for the Bianconeri, who have to reassure Spalletti but also have budget and squad construction constraints. This is why even two deals done risk vanishing…
Months of chats, discussions and negotiations to get here: to the moment of truth. An hour in which Juventus risks being found unprepared, blocked by waste from leaving the Continassa by some of the redundancies that Spalletti has indicated as not useful for the next sporting project. ‘No, thank you’ are painful because they leave the operational possibilities of the Old Lady in a sort of stalemate that brings together the technical needs, the numbers of the squad and the balance that the accounts must reach also to satisfy the requests of UEFA.
This is why, after having worked for a long time on these profiles, Juventus risks being overtaken by Roma and Fiorentina in the race for Franck Kessie and Joshua Zirkzee. And while it may not be an insurmountable problem for the attacker, given that Spalletti continues to forcefully ask for a profile different from that of Zirkzee and much more similar to Sorloth or Mateta, the Ivorian midfielder would be difficult to replace on the wish list a few days before the end of the transfer window.
The Kessie story is the most interesting to tell. The former AC Milan player has been waiting for the Bianconeri for weeks and Juventus has always linked the final push to having managed to free up space in the list and in the wages. Now, however, Gasperini’s Roma have forcefully entered and the change of scenario has forced the Juventus managers to change their approach: Kessie must arrive immediately, regardless of other exit market logics.
In the last meeting with the entourage, a two-year offer of 3.5 million euros net per season was proposed, with a possible option for a third. Enough? It depends on what Roma is ready to put on the table with the aftertaste of revenge on the part of Massara, who was sent away by Gasp and mocked in the Celik deal, which ended up at Juventus. In short, not just a question between clubs but also… personal.
For Zirkzee, however, it was Fiorentina who attacked with interesting arguments having to replace Kean destined for Como. Paratici spoke with the agents to prepare the offer (loan with right of redemption) for Manchester United. The Dutchman would have a central role in Grosso’s team and, above all, it is no longer certain that he is Juventus’ favourite. Who finds himself one hundred hours from the end of the transfer window with the match in hand and a situation that is not easy to resolve to please his coach.
