Juve, the number 9 shirt between Vlahovic and David

It is not that Juventus are missing a ninebut it is possible that next season 9 There is not. Besides the role of role, there is that of shirt and an iconic number that risks disappearing in Tudor’s team. But let’s go in order. In front, to now, the situation is this: Jonathan David has melted the mystery only on the day of his presentation, 26 days after the official arrival at Juve, and chose to wear 30 for his father Jean (“I started playing for him”), Kolo Muani – with 20 in his first six Juventus months – he continues to be a negotiation that the DG Comolli carries on with a slow fire with the PSG, and Vlahovic will be. On the margins but he is still a lady’s player and above all the number 9 is still owned. But in this other summer of changes, it is the transfer market that can be judge of the future of the number 9 shirt.

The speech concerns first of all Vlahovic. The 9 is he who is at the same time that player with (very rich) contract expiring that “can go away if an adequate offer arrives, but at the moment it has not arrived”. Word of Comolli who photographed, at 24 days after the start of the championship, the situation of the Serbian with the suitcase in hand but still at Continassa. And of course it is in all respects an element of the rose available to the coach: this year in fact Juve has not put any footballer out on the market.

Between the beginning of the championship and the end of the market …

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The dotted date is August 24, the day on which Juventus will make its debut in the new championship at home against Parma. The rule is clear: a footballer will have to keep the number that has been assigned to him until the end of the season or until he leaves the club. In essence: David will begin the season with 30 on the shoulders and that is the number that will continue to wear (at least) until May as a regulation; If Vlahovic will return to the field with his 9, that will remain on his shirt. But watch out for the transfer market that ends on September 1, 8 days after the start of the Serie A 25/26 … and Kolo Muani? Those who hypothesize a possible change between him and the Serbian must remember that everything will depend on the timing of his arrival and the possible farewell of the owner of the 9; But if the French (#9 at the Ointracht Frankfurt and Nantes) should arrive before the start of the championship, with DV9 still in the squad, and therefore it was ‘forced’ to choose another number and with that it will start the new season will no longer be able to change it.

The regulation on the assignment of numbers

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The latest variation to the regulation of game uniforms for the sports seasons 2024/2025 – 2025/2026 – 2026/2027 in point 8 of article 6 is clear: “Each club is required to assign a shirt number to all players in the staff starting from the first official race organized by the Serie A League, even if temporarily unable to take part in the races of the first team, as well as to the young people who are used in official races of the official races First team. And in addition: “It is specified that the number assigned to the footballer who is used on the field on the occasion of the official races of the first team cannot be reassured to another player until the moment in which the transfer of the first or in any case until the end of the sports season does not intervene”.