<p>Juventus transfer market, Sancho's agent in Turin! Nico Gonzalez: the Inter-Atalanta connection is heating up.</p>
The English winger is getting closer to wearing the black and white shirt: a meeting is underway at Continassa to resolve the issue of his severance pay from United.
The countdown to the training camp, scheduled for exactly one week from now, is ticking away in the corridors of Continassa . The sand in the hourglass is thinning: Comolli wants to speed up the transfer market to give Tudor the most complete Juventus possible, which is why he's digging a hot knife into Sancho's butter. Even though the long-awaited transfers haven't arrived yet, even though a definitive solution hasn't yet been identified for Nico Gonzalez , the almost daily discussions in the triangle between Juventus, Manchester United , and Jadon Sancho's entourage underwent a significant evolution yesterday. Nigerian Emeka Obasi, the English winger's agent, showed up in Turin to take stock of the increasingly fluid negotiations. And to iron out the details that still stand between the deal and the finishing line, evidently. Details that don't concern the agreement between the Bianconeri and the player, given the agreement in principle for a four-year contract worth approximately €6 million plus bonuses.
Nor is there any agreement between the two clubs, since the Red Devils have come to the conclusion that they'd accept offers like the one Comolli put on the table in recent days, amounting to approximately €17.5 million for the player. The crux of the matter, if anything, is the 25-year-old Londoner's request for a severance payment to leave Manchester, a fee estimated at between €5 and €6 million. This is too much, according to United's management, who have requested direct intervention from Juventus to at least split the additional outlay. And this was precisely the request brought to Turin by Ambassador Obasi, eager to reach a definitive settlement to satisfy his client, who already sees himself wearing a black and white shirt and refuses to listen to Fenerbahçe's repeated advances in the last few hours. But can Juventus afford the investment without first selling a player in the defense? Technically, yes, because the Juventus club has no problems with the desired liquidity ratio and even the recent capital increase was "only" conducive to consolidating net worth.
The 'trouble' Nico GonzalezAfter that, as you can read in the accompanying article, several departures are now one step away from being finalized: Weah has never been so close to joining De Zerbi's Marseille, Mbangula is now on his way to the Bundesliga, with Werder Bremen favored over Wolfsburg. These two departures, when added together, would give Juventus an even greater sum than the expected outlay for Sancho. The problem, if anything, would be the situation surrounding Nico Gonzalez . Acquiring the Englishman without having yet sold the Argentine would, in fact, entice suitors for the former Viola player to keep their offers low, knowing that Turin will need to get rid of – at that point – a genuine surplus of players. Not that everything is at a standstill around Nico Gonzalez; on the contrary. The linchpin of Scaloni's Seleccion has instructed his agents to explore the Arabian option, which was already ruled out a year ago after Al-Ahli approached him about bringing him to the Saudi Pro League. Not only that, Tudor's lack of consideration, also evident in the United States during the Club World Cup , has led the attacking winger to consider other destinations in Serie A: his name appears on Inter 's shortlist as an alternative to Lookman, the first option, while Atalanta , in the event of the Nigerian's departure, could similarly approach Juventus for the Argentine.
The certainty of the Juventus attacking midfielder, alongside the dogmatic Yildiz , is therefore called Conceiçao . Or rather: it will be Conceiçao soon, if the final pieces of the negotiations with Porto fall into place. The buyout has been set at €32 million, slightly above the clause, as a "disruption" for the payment being spread over four installments, but the Dragoes are still waiting for Chico's written commitment to give up the share of his own contract, approximately 20%, which he claimed after the imaginative deal that brought him back from Ajax to Porto. This is the last bureaucratic step before the official confirmation.
The countdown to the training camp, scheduled for exactly one week from now, is ticking away in the corridors of Continassa . The sand in the hourglass is thinning: Comolli wants to speed up the transfer market to give Tudor the most complete Juventus possible, which is why he's digging a hot knife into Sancho's butter. Even though the long-awaited transfers haven't arrived yet, even though a definitive solution hasn't yet been identified for Nico Gonzalez , the almost daily discussions in the triangle between Juventus, Manchester United , and Jadon Sancho's entourage underwent a significant evolution yesterday. Nigerian Emeka Obasi, the English winger's agent, showed up in Turin to take stock of the increasingly fluid negotiations. And to iron out the details that still stand between the deal and the finishing line, evidently. Details that don't concern the agreement between the Bianconeri and the player, given the agreement in principle for a four-year contract worth approximately €6 million plus bonuses.
Nor is there any agreement between the two clubs, since the Red Devils have come to the conclusion that they'd accept offers like the one Comolli put on the table in recent days, amounting to approximately €17.5 million for the player. The crux of the matter, if anything, is the 25-year-old Londoner's request for a severance payment to leave Manchester, a fee estimated at between €5 and €6 million. This is too much, according to United's management, who have requested direct intervention from Juventus to at least split the additional outlay. And this was precisely the request brought to Turin by Ambassador Obasi, eager to reach a definitive settlement to satisfy his client, who already sees himself wearing a black and white shirt and refuses to listen to Fenerbahçe's repeated advances in the last few hours. But can Juventus afford the investment without first selling a player in the defense? Technically, yes, because the Juventus club has no problems with the desired liquidity ratio and even the recent capital increase was "only" conducive to consolidating net worth.
The 'trouble' Nico GonzalezAfter that, as you can read in the accompanying article, several departures are now one step away from being finalized: Weah has never been so close to joining De Zerbi's Marseille, Mbangula is now on his way to the Bundesliga, with Werder Bremen favored over Wolfsburg. These two departures, when added together, would give Juventus an even greater sum than the expected outlay for Sancho. The problem, if anything, would be the situation surrounding Nico Gonzalez . Acquiring the Englishman without having yet sold the Argentine would, in fact, entice suitors for the former Viola player to keep their offers low, knowing that Turin will need to get rid of – at that point – a genuine surplus of players. Not that everything is at a standstill around Nico Gonzalez; on the contrary. The linchpin of Scaloni's Seleccion has instructed his agents to explore the Arabian option, which was already ruled out a year ago after Al-Ahli approached him about bringing him to the Saudi Pro League. Not only that, Tudor's lack of consideration, also evident in the United States during the Club World Cup , has led the attacking winger to consider other destinations in Serie A: his name appears on Inter 's shortlist as an alternative to Lookman, the first option, while Atalanta , in the event of the Nigerian's departure, could similarly approach Juventus for the Argentine.
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