Juve, contacts with Montella to monitor Yildiz’s recovery

The championship is over, the season is not. Juventus could “accompany” Kenan Yildiz to the World Cup, even physically. On the Turin-Istanbul axis, updates are daily and the latest idea is to send a man from the Juventus staff to the Turkish retreat to closely follow the playmaker’s recovery. The Juventus managers are on alert for the physical condition of the 21-year-old from Regensburg, who has just recovered from knee tendinopathy and the calf injury that caused him to miss the derby with Torino. The team coached by Vincenzo Montella will make its debut on the night between 13 and 14 June against Australia, in Vancouver (Canada), and at the moment the Juventus star is traveling on a thread of days. If not a race against time, something similar.

AXIS WITH MONTELLA

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The Lady wants to support and closely follow the run-up of her most valuable player, one of the few untouchables for John Elkann. The Juventus staff has already been in contact with that of Türkiye. Relationships facilitated by the presence of Montella, who boasts a direct link with Luciano Spalletti. Montella was first a teammate of the former coach, at Empoli, and then his player in Tuscany, in Sampdoria and Roma.

RUNNING UP

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Montella crosses his fingers and Spalletti does the same. Among the regrets of Luciano and all of Juventus is also that of not having been able to exploit the best Yildiz in the crucial phase of the Champions League sprint. The inflammation of the Turk’s knee is not enough to justify the Bianconeri’s harakiri between Verona and Fiorentina and their relegation to the Europa League, but in the last seven stages of the championship Spalletti had to deal with Kenan being part-time or completely absent as against Torino. Certainly not a small detail. Yildiz, despite a final complicated by injuries, proved to be the Lady’s best scorer in 2025-26 with 11 goals, one more than Dusan Vlahovic (10). But the Turk’s season is not over yet. Montella needs the Juventus player’s goals and assists to transform his national team into one of the possible loose cannons of the World Cup.