The Argentine was sacrificed by the Bianconeri in the summer of 2024 on the altar of the budget and his replacements performed less than him
Mortgaging the future to spend in the present, at the cost of repenting. The policy that Juve has undertaken for a few years now, which has led it to use Next Gen like an ATM, selling the best young players from the second team to have resources to invest in the market, continues to cause regrets and discussions. The last one is called Matias Soulé, author of 3 goals and two assists in the first 6 days of the championship and among the leaders of league leaders Roma. The moral is that, in three transfer sessions, the Bianconeri spent over 80 million on players who play in the same role as the Argentine when they would have had the right profile, at no cost, at home.
Juve, 80 million for wingers and playmakers
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The calculation is easy to do: last summer a total of 33 million came out of the Juventus coffers to snatch Nico Gonzalez from Fiorentina, this summer 37.4 million for the permanent purchase of Conceiçao from Porto (30.4 plus the 7 of the 2024 loan) and 14.3 for that of Zhegrova. In total they spend more than 84 million on wingers and playmakers who play with their feet reversed on the right flank, which is the characteristics of the current Giallorossi. Sacrificed, however, and it is no mystery, on the altar of the budget and of a market blocked by the impossibility of selling players with heavy contracts. “When we understood that Juve had to send him away, that they had money and budget problems and had to sell, we decided that Roma would be the perfect place for Soulé”, revealed Martin Guastadisegno, the Argentine’s agent, the day after the transfer to the Giallorossi was made official.
soulè performs more than its substitutes
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A mere economic question, also because Thiago Motta liked Soulé (unlike Huijsen, the other great Juventus regret) and quite a lot. “He saw me well in his plans and in his attack. But now the decision was made, I was needed to raise cash”, the Argentine never hid, defining the end of the relationship with the Bianconeri as “a sore point”. It took place in the Herzogenaurach training camp when the then Juventus director, Cristiano Giuntoli, found himself struggling with a stalemate, caused by the inability to sell the big players (from Chiesa to Kostic) outside the squad and, consequently, to acquire the identified reinforcements (Koopmeiners and Nico above all). In hindsight, a failure: excluding the Dutchman, who is still a ghost, Conceiçao and the Argentinian ex Fiorentina put together a goal or an assist every 208′ with the black and white shirt (a total of 14+10), while Soulé one every 191′ with that of Roma (8+7). And in the meantime Juve also finds itself with 50 million less in cash…
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