Juventus market, Luciano Spalletti does not hide and asks the club for reinforcements

Juventus soccer club: Luciano Spalletti is still not satisfied. The Juventus coach, speaking in a press conference on Sunday on the eve of the match with Cremonese, admitted that he still does not consider his team complete. Hence an appeal to the management, which is actually already active on several fronts, and toward which the Certaldo coach nevertheless said he has complete confidence on the operations to be completed in January. Highlighting, however, that they will have to concern different departments.

“I say that in a couple of positions we are a bit short – Spalletti explained to the press, addressing, however, not even too indirectly to Juventus’ market managers -. In some places we have to complete the roster, then it is obviously our directors who make the market. And I trust them completely. However, we must always keep our antennae straight, because in these positions we need to have more alternatives and dual roles.” And from this point of view, work is in full swing especially for a right flank and a quality reinforcement for the midfield.

In the latest meetings with the management and the new sporting director Marco Ottolini, Luciano Spalletti has in fact highlighted the need to hire a new right full-back to alternate with Pierre Kalulu, who this season due to the lack of a replacement is playing constantly. Noussair Mazraoui, a Moroccan arrow who is not playing much at Manchester United, has ended up in the Old Lady’s sights. Also being monitored with great interest is Brooke Norton-Cuffy, a great surprise of this Serie A: the speedy Englishman is impressing everyone with the Genoa jersey.

Interesting also is an open front between Milan and Juventus, who could soon sit down at a table to treat a possible market exchange between Federico Gatti and Ruben Loftus-Cheek. After a market summit at the Continassa, the go-ahead for the operation would come from the Bianconeri leadership. After all, Spalletti has long been looking for a versatile midfielder, capable of playing in multiple areas of the midfield, and the former Chelsea man could be right for him.

All is silent instead, at least for the moment, on the Federico Chiesa front. The striker, who is playing as little as he is well with Liverpool, is at the center of inferences that would want him back in Turin, on which Spalletti, however, has not budged. While returning to an old comparison of his, when in his days as national team coach he referred to him as “the Jannik Sinner of Italian soccer.”