Thursday 3 June. The day in which the new Juventus will take shape has already been decided. Call it the day of “Allegri II”, or maybe “Allegri VI”, depending on whether you want to consider the beginning of the second era of the Livorno coach on the Juventus bench or if you want to count Allegri’s seasons at the helm of the team with which has won five league titles in five years, but the substance changes little.
On Thursday 3 June, the “new-old” coach who has just returned to the saddle, the president Andrea Agnelli, the deputy Pavel Nedved and the new sporting director Federico Cherubini, substitute for Fabio Paratici, will meet to define the programmatic lines of Juventus’ summer 2021 market .
A market that, as for the other big clubs in Europe, will still be affected by the collapse in revenues caused by the pandemic, and which for this reason will first require cash, possibly by June 30 for budgetary reasons, and then think about the reinforcements.
At Juventus, in detail, the knot to be solved is obviously what concerns the future of Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese is under contract until June 2022 at 31 million net. Giving up the cascade of goals guaranteed by Cristiano in particular in the last season is not a decision that is taken lightly, but according to rumors Allegri is ready to “advise” Agnelli to renounce Ronaldo, who himself did not hide the own discontent in recent times.
Getting rid of such an engagement would trigger a real domino effect for Juventus, because it would give oxygen to the corporate coffers, already destined to breathe with the sale of non-strategic elements, such as Aaron Ramsey, and would allow the club to aim straight for the future on Paulo. Dybala. Allegri is among the sponsors of the renewal of the Argentine’s contract, which expires in 2023, could return to being the fulcrum of Juventus, as before the arrival of Cristiano.
Moreover, the domino effect would also be triggered in the European market, because a free Ronaldo could convince PSG to put him under contract to form a dream couple with Neynar and at the same time freeing Kylian Mbappé, the Real Madrid dream of Florentino Perez and Carlo Ancelotti, and one between Mauro Icardi and Moise Kean, both candidates for the role of Juventus center forward of the future, in which there should also be room for Alvaro Morata, whose loan from Atletico Madrid will be renewed.
Meanwhile, as reported by ‘Il Messaggero’, Allegri would have made a request to Agnelli, regarding a great return, that of Andrea Barzagli. The former Juventus defender, who after leaving football had been part of Maurizio Sarri’s technical staff except to leave the club after the Tuscan coach’s exoneration, could return to Turin and become one of Allegri’s closest collaborators, with which Barzagli is united by a historic friendship that dates back to the times of the common militancy as players in the Pistoia area.
OMNISPORT | 02-06-2021 07:57
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