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Evaluating Juventus options to replace Alvaro Morata next summer
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Alvaro Morata joined Juventus on a loan in June 2020, Juventus paid Atletico Madrid a £10M loan fee with option to extend it for another year by paying an extra £10M which the Bianconeri inserted in the summer. Juventus are yet to make a decision on Morata’s future, the Bianconeri have an option to buy him permanently for £35M in the summer 2022.
Today we evaluate Juventus options should they decide not to buy Morata permanently.
Juventus has identified a clear and defined goal for the attack of the future: Dusan Vlahovic. We have written it and we keep you constantly updated on the developments of the affair: the plan of the Bianconeri, the will of the Serbian striker, the position of Fiorentina. In Turin, however, they do not want to be caught unprepared if the purchase of Vlahovic (in January or in the summer) does not go through. Juve have confidence, but the variables are many – from the possible inclusion of clubs much richer than the bianconeri (from Tottenham to Paris Saint Germain) to the diktat of Commisso (Vlahovic never to Juve) – and the outcome is anything but obvious.
ICARDI – Plan B therefore, which exists and is made up of a series of names. Among these there is a by now old workhorse of the bianconeri, that Mauro Icardi who was for a long time, and for several market sessions, in the sights of the bianconeri. Juve continues to follow him, even if with the departure of Paratici , a great admirer of the PSG striker, interest has waned a bit. And even if, with a view to a progressive rejuvenation of the squad, the 29 years that the former Inter will celebrate in February are starting to put him a little on the limits of the ‘ideal player’ to start a new winning cycle.
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NUNEZ – A striker who meets the right age requirement is Darwin Nunez, born in 1999 from Benfica. Also in this case, as for Vlahovic, we are talking about important figures: without disturbing the release clause of the Uruguayan (150 million), the starting base with which we start with the club chaired by Rui Costa is at least 50 million. Unlike Vlahovic, for whom we travel on similar figures, for Nunez there would be no environmental complication that always surrounds any possible deal between Juventus and Fiorentina.
THE OTHERS – In addition to Icardi and Nunez, Juve’s plan B list as an alternative to Vlahovic also includes other strikers, different from each other in age, experience, characteristics and costs: Alexandre Lacazette (born in 1991 with Arsenal expiring in June 2022), Anthony Martial (born in 1995) of Manchester United), Gianluca Scamacca (born in 1999 with Sassuolo)