Juventus market, Di Gregorio in the balance: big name back in fashion for future between the posts
Juventus continues to reason about what could change, from next season, in the role of goalkeeper: Michele Di Gregorio, who has made some mistakes between the Bianconeri posts this year, could in fact not be confirmed and in his place the management would choose, as his successor, a goalkeeper of proven international experience, the Brazilian Alisson, currently with Liverpool. The former Roma man’s name had already been circulating in recent months but in recent days the hypothesis has regained momentum, in Italy as well as across the Channel.
The 1992-class goalkeeper, who won the 2018-2019 Champions League with the Reds, renewed not long ago, until 2027, precisely with Liverpool, which, however, between technical reconstruction on the horizon and a market that could lead to unexpected choices, would not rule out an outgoing negotiation in the face of an offer deemed congruous, taking into account that the market value of Alisson himself has fallen, according to quotations provided by Transfermarkt, from 90 million euros seven years ago to the current 17 million.
Economic issues aside, Liverpool will also have to figure out whether the technical leadership will remain the same next year (Arne Slot is not yet certain to stay on the red bank of the Mersey) and whether, regardless of who will sit on the bench, Giorgi Mamardashvili, the Georgian goalkeeper whom the Reds took in the summer of 2024 from Valencia for 30 million euros, leaving him in Spain for a year before finding him space in the squad, as a twelfth, this season, will be given a chance.
Another doubt regarding Alisson is related to his physical condition: he has missed several games this season and for more than a month, from the beginning of October to the first ten days of November, the Brazilian was out with a thigh muscle problem. Another muscle problem is keeping him out these days so much so that even Carlo Ancelotti, Brazil coach, preferred not to risk him in the international window, preferring Ederson, Bento and Hugo Souza.
A constantly evolving scenario, then, with Juventus assessing in the coming weeks whether there will be the conditions to finally sink the blow and bring back to Italy Alisson, who had played for Roma from 2016 to 2018, finding among other things precisely Luciano Spalletti on the bench in the first Giallorossi season of the now 33-year-old goalkeeper.
