Everton reportedly wanted to bring World Cup winner Blaise Matuidi to the Premier League for the first time but he’s staying with Serie A champions Juventus.
A six-time league champion in France and Italy, a World Cup winner with France and with admirers all over Europe from Laurent Blanc to Didier Deschamps, Max Allegri to Carlo Ancelotti, you can see why Everton were interested in bringing Blaise Matuidi to Goodison Park.
According to Le Parisien, The Toffees had expressed a desire to lure the 32-year-old midfielder to the Premier League for the first time in his career.
With his tireless approach to the game undiminished even in the autumn of his career and with a bucket-load of winner’s medals to his name, Matuidi certainly has plenty to offer both on and off the pitch.
But was one of the most decorated footballers of the last ten years ever going to leave Turin for a club who finished eighth in the Premier League last season?
“You were convinced I’d leave in the summer, but I never considered this an option,’ the former PSG enforcer told Tuttomercatoweb.
“I work every day for the team and I’m only thinking about what happens on the pitch. Juve are a great team and they give me so much confidence.”
Matuidi has spent an entire career silencing the doubters and those who predicted that he would be dropped to the bench at Juventus after the arrivals of Aaron Ramsey and Adrian Rabiot have been sadly mistaken.
The veteran Frenchman has started all four of Juve’s games since Maurizio Sarri took over and scored a bullet header in Wednesday’s 2-2 Champions League draw at Atletico Madrid. There’s life in the old dog yet and he still has a big part to play in Turin.
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