the names of the out of pink – Corriere.it

to the words, Cristiano Giuntoli
, followed up with the facts: “We must all put the ego aside and think like us,” he said, introducing himself as head of the Juventus technical area. Moral: those on the market will train separately, including Leonardo Bonucci, one of 502 games, 8 championships, huge experience and cumbersome personality. Sometimes, the ways are the message. Even if then – seen through the eyes of the club – there was respect for the now ex captain: Giuntoli himself and sporting director Giovanni Manna went to the player’s house, explaining the situation and the decision to him. A cut, agreed with Massimiliano Allegri, exclusively for technical and tactical reasons: it was not part of the coach’s plans. What’s more: in the Juventus staff there was also the belief that Leo could not have had a deluxe exchange season, like Barzagli.

As a good decision-maker and stubborn workaholic, Giuntoli thus began the not easy job: he has a reputation for being quick-tempered, but who also knows how to be an aggregator inside a club, scouring every square metre. He is not one of those who is closed in the office, in the literal sense: in these first days at Continassa, so to speak, he has put his feet and eyes everywhere, from the gym to the field. “I’d like to put many heads together with one heart”, another phrase of his which is already a slogan. A little bit of a demolisher, inevitably, a little bit of an architect, with patience. There was no other way for the players considered outside the technical project. At the cost of giving up whoever wrote the club’s recent history. He dies a little in order to live.

So: launch pad also for Zakaria, McKennie and Arthur. Consideration of the company: they will train at different times from the team, avoiding embarrassing situations, for people who still have a career behind them. Bonucci, who would also like to stay and who will (rightly) show up on the pitch, just has to evaluate possible offers: more Italy (there is an idea from Lazio, after the first call from Sampdoria), than abroad (yes Fenerbahce alive). For the midfielders, however, they expect calls from the Premier League.

From the redundancies to the exuberant, Vlahovic and Chiesa: two who, given the choice, would perhaps have preferred a technical swerve. The center forward is always on the menu of Chelsea, Psg and Bayern (which has not yet closed with Kane), while the winger is in the midst of a dilemma: leave or resist, betting on a new coach in a year. Once the agreement with Francesco Calvo – the one who pushed to take him – was sealed even more with a couple of dinners in a restaurant in the center of Turin, Giuntoli also finds himself grappling with a market and mental situation that has no recent precedents, Juventus home. First, there are too many players, and with too high salaries; second, if there is no duty to win, the imperative to want to do so remains. An aspect that has been questioned for certain matches in the last two seasons: for this reason we needed to give it a break, even with heads.