From Dybala to Pjanic: now Juve can say no

TORINO – «We have always tried to keep our players better, not to sell them», but also «We must be attentive to the dynamics of the incoming and outgoing market. Opportunities arise to make assessments. It is valid for Dybala as for the other players of the rose ». The Juventus market will unfold next summer between these two sentences delivered by Fabio Paratici at the shareholders' meeting on Thursday. Trying to make predictions today about who will arrive and who will leave would be like trying to predict what the July 1st time will be, traditionally the date of the official start of the negotiations: it can be right or wrong, but it would be a matter of guessing or a little more. If one cannot predict the weather for a single day, however, it is certainly not wrong to say that in the summer it will be hot. And it is not wrong either to foresee that the Juventus market will also be hot, coming in as well as going out. As is the case for years now.

DIFFERENT POTENTIAL

Years during which the Bianconeri company has grown, bringing the turnover from 172 million in 2010 – the beginning of the Andrea Agnelli era – to today's 621 that represent only an intermediate goal, as the Bianconeri president himself pointed out. A growth that allows the management to move the route towards the first of the aforementioned sentences by Paratici: "We have always tried to keep the best". Only three times, Juventus general manager explained, Juventus failed in that intent: with Vidal, Pogba and Bonucci "which we then bought back". Apart from the fact that the defender may not be the last of the three to be bought back, given that the French have long been in the sights, the current company would probably also have been able to afford to retain the two midfielders, sold in 2015 (Vidal) and in 2016 (Pogba).

CAPITAL GAINS

Certainly he can now afford to answer no to even the most attractive offers, such as those that could come for players who are re-evaluating from game to game, from Alex Sandro to Dybala passing through Pjanic. A lot will depend on the evolution of the season: from which players will gain a status of fixed points on which to build also for the future, from how much the value will continue to grow. The only certainty at the moment is the departure in January of Mario Mandzukic, most likely together with that of Emre Can: neither of them has re-evaluated in these first months, but for the Croatian Juventus has almost completely amortized the card while the German it arrived at zero parameter and would certainly represent a conspicuous capital gain. However, we are talking about non-central players in Sarri's projects, as evidenced by the exclusions from the Champions list. As much as it can increase its value, almost certainly those who had to knock on the Bianconeri's doors for Pjanic would feel they were saying no.

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