From the mockery of Kessie ending up at Atalanta, to the rebirth of two players destined to leave. And how does the Old Lady behave now? The Tuscan technician is pressing for people to put their hands on their wallets…
From the mockery of Kessie moving to Atalanta after months of courtship and an agreement that seemed to have been found, to the joy of the victory against Parma remedied by clinging to the shoulders of the redundancies. Juventus’ Saturday was two-sided and with very different nuances. The no from Kessie, who preferred to return to Bergamo despite the pressure with an offer of 3.5 million euros for two seasons and the option of a third, was a hard blow to digest. But then the camp arrived and the camp said that Luciano Spalletti has cards to play even in the absence of transfer market moves.
For how long? The session is in its final sprint and we need to follow the thread of the words of the Tuscan coach. He didn’t hide behind a finger: “With Thuram’s difficulty confirmed, we need a player in midfield – admits the coach -. The club had organized an interesting situation, then it vanished. Now we’ll see.” Translated, we need a midfielder and quickly too, a priority given that Thuram is not available and may not be available for long.
The solution is called Pape Sarr, he comes from Tottenham and the right formula is that of an expensive loan (3 million) with the right to buy for 30 without any mandatory conditions. Is he the right man? He certainly isn’t the first choice of a summer in which Juventus pursued different profiles in midfield, imagining first having to find a man of order and then having to add weight and muscle. Sarr is coming off a bad year with Tottenham, he was discarded by De Zerbi, but he comes from the Premier League which often sends redundancies to Italy that make the difference.
The news, however, is that while the Bianconeri were licking their wounds for the revenge of Cristiano Giuntoli, now at Atalanta and the perpetrator of Kessie’s “snatch”, Spalletti has drawn the strength to go beyond Parma in a complicated match from Giuntoli’s disputed transfer market in the summer of 2024. Nico Gonzalez was the best and not only for the goal scored, Teu Koopmeiners put the seal and showed signs of life. Above all, the Argentine can be useful to a team that has lost Yildiz for at least three months and that still doesn’t have faith in the Bosnian crash Alajbegovic, who Spalletti still doesn’t see as a starter in his natural role.
The crux of this market ending, however, is not easy to unravel. While there are no offers for Koopmeiners, the dilemma regarding Nico Gonzalez is real because he could enter into an operation to get to Soloth, a striker that Spalletti wants like hotcakes. Keep it or sacrifice it? Unless we find a way to say goodbye to Jonathan David, the only one of the redundancies who did not respond to Spalletti’s call. It remains on the market, for now without a solution.
