Juventus market, for January there's a big possibility from Manchester

Among the priorities of the Juventus management is to buy a new midfielder to reinforce the team at Luciano Spalletti&#8217s disposal: the coach has asked the Bianconeri leadership team to take action as early as January. They really like Rodri Mendoza, a very young Spanish midfielder who is showing off his skills with the Elche shirt. The club is aware of the interest of Juve and other top clubs and would like to wait until the summer to sell his talent. In the last hours a new possibility has popped up for Luciano Spalletti: it is Manuel Ugarte.

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could be coming soon.

The Manchester United midfielder has different characteristics from Rodri Mendoza but Ruben Amorim has ruled him out of his plans and the opportunity to sign a champion of his caliber would interest anyone. The former Paris Saint Germain man, who moved to England in the summer of 2024 for 50 million euros, has played just 360 minutes so far this season between the EFL Cup and the Premier League and is desperate to leave Manchester in January. Juventus could knock on the Red Devils’ door by proposing a temporary transfer with an option to buy him back at the end of the season, in this way they would immediately have a reinforcement to put at Luciano Spalletti’s disposal without having to shell out a considerable sum immediately.

In addition to the midfield reinforcement, Luciano Spalletti has also asked the management to evaluate a profile to fix the defense. The new name is actually a throwback: it is in fact Leonardo Balerdi of Olympique Marseille, for whom ground had already been sounded last summer. Class of 1999, originally from Villa Mercedes and holder of the dual passport of Argentina and Italy (he would not, therefore, occupy one of the slots reserved for non-EU players), Balerdi is one of the regular starters of the team coached by Roberto De Zerbi and has seen his market value rise to the current 20 million indicated by Transfermarkt. The OM management could take advantage of the opportunity to cash in by starting a real auction among suitors: in fact, there is not only Juventus on the footsteps of the player, who is also interested in the Saudi league and in particular Al-Qadsiya, which snatched striker Mateo Retegui from the Italian league last summer.

Sunday night Juventus came out of the Maradona Stadium defeated: Napoli won 2-1 thanks to Rasmus Højlund’s double and interrupted the streak of 8 consecutive useful results put together by the Bianconeri between the league and Champions League.