Skriniar wants Juventus: the truth about his salary

CM editorial team 14 minutes ago

Juventus has a crack in its wall: since Gleison Bremer ended his season with a serious injury on the night of the Champions League in Leipzig, the Juventus goal has begun to concede goals with a frequency unknown at the beginning of the season. Declining in numbers, with Bremer only one goal conceded, namely that of PSV Eindhoven after the match ended at the Stadium on the first day of the League Phase; without Bremer, they score three goals in the Champions League (two from Leipzig and one from Stuttgart) and seven in the league (one from Cagliari, four from Inter, two from Parma). Total, one before and ten after. INTERVENE – For this reason, beyond Thiago Motta’s choices, a reinforcement needs to arrive in the defensive department. Having discarded the hypothesis linked to the free agent market, the plan is to act on the January market; and among the possible alternatives, such as the coach’s protégé Beukema from Bologna or Leo Ortiz from Flamengo, the most suggestive one is the return to Italy of Milan Skriniar, taken two summers ago from Paris Saint-Germain at zero from Inter. OPENING – This path is viable thanks to a double opening: not only that of the French, who over time have seen Luis Enrique’s hierarchies change and Skriniar essentially become a reserve, in the background compared to Beraldo, Pacho and Marquinhos; but also that of the Slovakian defender himself, who at this point would look favorably on returning to a championship with which he has confidence to find continuity of employment and physical form. KNOTS TO BE UNSOLVED – However, it is not a smooth road. First of all, we must consider that Skriniar lost his place not only due to the exuberance of his young competitors, but also due to physical problems that kept him sidelined in his first Parisian autumn, the 2023/24 season. After that, there is the question of salary, which amounts to around eight million euros net, too much for the Juventus coffers. This is why in the first instance we could study a loan with salary paid in part by PSG, an extremely advantageous formula which has already been exploited in the past by the teams in our Serie A (a recent example is Wijnaldum at Roma) and which would allow the club to Al-Khelaifi to lighten his wages a little. All UPDATES in REAL TIME! Join the CALCIOMERCATO.COM WHATSAPP channel: click here