Juventus on Icardi, Manchester United pays 25 million – Corriere.it

To face the first day of the first season AD (after Christian), Massimiliano Allegri takes a few seconds: “Before you ask me questions, yesterday (Thursday, ed) Ronaldo has informed me that he has no intention of staying. He has not trained today and will not be called up. Now we can talk about the match ». Saturday night at the Allianz Stadium, against Empoli.

Three seasons of 101 goals in 134 games cleared in one amen, as if a spring talent had been sold. For certain situations, there could not have been a better coach and, after all, Juve also re-chosen him for this lightness, which does not always mean superficiality.
Meanwhile, with Formula 1 qualifying times, CR7 was already on the lineup of the private flight to Portugal
, for the national team meeting. In the morning he went to the Continassa to greet his companions (a few minutes), then packing his bags (4) in the villa on the hill.

Only towards evening, via Instagram, of course, did the Portuguese greet the Juventus fans, with the tone reserved for customers, as a good player-company: “I’m leaving a fantastic club, the largest in Italy and among the greatest in Europe: I gave my heart and soul to Juve and I will always love Turin ». It was squeezed, he says, but it wasn’t enough: “We have achieved great things, even if not everything we wanted, but we have written a pretty good story “. Still on social media, in the meantime, CR7 had already put on smiling Manchester United’s red costume, the club that launched it and that stole it from City, offering 25 million to Juve and a two-year to the player. He is happy and, judging by the expressions at the press conference, Pep Guardiola is also happy (not to have him). To say: from the team of sheikhs many had called Cr7, from Ruben Dias and Cancelo to Bernardo Silva, not the coach. Unlike Solskjær, the United manager, who had immediately winked at him, in front of the TV, addressing the fairytale return.

Allegri is too big to believe in fairy tales: “I am absolutely not disappointed at Ronaldo: Sivori, Platini, Del Piero, Zidane, Buffon, great champions and great coaches have passed through here, but Juve remains, which is the most important thing.” Pause: “Ronaldo goes away and life goes on”. From the day before, the sports director Federico Cherubini had hooked up to the phone to track down the spare parts: from Kean (favorite) to Scamacca, passing through the loan (complicated at the moment) of Icardi. But even on shopping, the Juventus coach cuts short: “If we can find a player who improves the squad, fine, otherwise we’ll stay like this.” Rather, to hear him, he has solutions a la Brad Pitt’s in mind Moneyball, even if football is much less mathematical than baseball: you cannot replace Ronaldo, but you can try to recreate him, with a sum. To find, there are 30 goals per season: “The team has them in their feet: from Dybala to Morata, from Kulusevski to Chiesa, McKennie, Rabiot,
Bernardeschi“. Therefore: “There will be a better distribution of goals”. It starts tonight: «We must be angry about Udine, where we have drawn the unforeseen card of the Monopoli and we have not been ready». Four days later an even bigger unexpected happened: or a liberation.