We have to go back to the prehistory of the transfer market, to find a summer session, excluding the strange September post-Covid transfer campaign, in which Juventus had not yet struck a beat on July 16. The purchasing box, at Continassa, reads zero: in the third millennium this had never happened, for a precedent it would be necessary to go back to times when the market, for football, was only a parenthesis of relative interest between one season and another, Not the other. To be honest, the bianconeri are not the only ones in Serie A: they are accompanied by Naples, Sampdoria and Sassuolo. However, for a club that has recently made programming its mantra, that empty space is more evident than for others. It weighs the impact of the pandemic, for sure; the Juventus difficulties at the exit; also the renewal at the top, which has taken its time and, who knows, touched on philosophy. However, Juve is missing from the chronicles of a summer that always imagines it as the master of the Piazza Affari of football.
Nock If you are there. Locatelli? Right from the neroverdi, the Old Lady plans to place her first deal. Who then risks being the main one, not only for Juve but for the entire summer session. The name is that of Manuel Locatelli: in the Bianconeri’s ambitions for months now, very welcome to Allegri and in turn very ready to move to Turin. Today he is on vacation, enjoying the gold medal of a European who lived as a protagonist especially in the opening bars. On his return, he will leave Sassuolo, unless there are sensational surprises: all the parties involved know this, and this is what makes a soap opera slightly cloying, the epilogue of which seems obvious. But it is still to be written: in the next few hours there will be a new contact between the two clubs, which have been talking for some time but so far without official offers like the one that came from Arsenal. The terms of the speech are known: Sassuolo values Locatelli 40 million, the Bianconeri something less, moreover with the aim of working on the formula. And maybe insert some counterpart, with Fagioli in the front row and Dragusin not far away. So far, radio market tells of nì to too creative formulas and “let’s see” the counterparts. The second round of a long match will soon go on air: usually, the winner does so out of exhaustion of the opponent.
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