Cutting loose one of the most talented young centre-backs in Europe so you can re-sign a striker you sold two years ago? It doesn’t sound great on paper.
Then again, Juventus have history when it comes to questionable recruitment – at least recently. Selling Joao Cancelo and replacing him with Danilo? Releasing Gonzalo Higuain four years after signing him for £81 million?
Paying £100 million for a 33-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo only to find themselves slipping further away from Ol’ Big Ears in the intervening years?
Juventus are in a financial mess of their own making.
That, if you were wondering, is probably why Andrea Agnelli, the club’s uber-unpopular chairman, is at the heart of those ghastly Super League proposals, European football’s looming Grim Reaper.
So if Juventus are determined to bring Moise Kean back to Turin – two years after selling him to Everton in a £27 million deal – they will have little choice but to make a grim sacrifice as long as monetary worries remain.
Gazzetta dello Sport reports Demiral, the tough-tackling, Nemanja Vidic-influenced central defender, could be heading to Goodison Park as Kean goes in the other direction.
With just 12 Serie A starts to his name this season, Demiral is struggling to step out of the shadows of Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci.
Calciomercato reports Juventus chief executive Fabio Paratici is now willing to sell the £35 million-rated defender having previously deemed him “unsellable”.
But if Paratici and Andrea Pirlo have doubts about Demiral, those concerns certainly aren’t shared by the Juventus fanbase. At least someone in Turin values him.
Here’s what some Juventus fans had to say on Twitter about the possible deal:
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