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EXCLUSIVE: How Juve will avoid losses from sale of ex QPR winger
Unfortunately, The Chile Intenational has failed to live up to expectations at the Juventus Stadium, both due to poor play and a serious cruciate ligament injury, which at one stage forced him out for seven months.
Former Juventus manager Antonio Conte hoped he would be able to gallop down the flank as he did in his 152 appearances with Udinese, but Isla could only manage 48 Juventus caps during his two year-spell with the Old Lady.
Now, the 27-year-old is so far removed from Juventus’ good books that the Serie A title holders loaned him to QPR last season, before doing the same with Marseille this season.
The good news for Bianconeri fans is that Juventus CEO Giuseppe Marottam has come to an arrangement with Udinese in order to avoid a capital loss from the future sale of the former Udinese star.
As the last Juventus financial report reads, the club signed Marcelo Amado Djalo Tarstolay and Nico Hidalgo from Granada B in August 2014, respectively on € 1 and € 2 million deals.
Never heard of them? No problem, neither have we, as the best league where the duo have featured so far... is the Spanish third Division.
They both belonged to Granada, a club owned by the Pozzo family, just like Udinese and Watford.
Now, Juventus resolved Isla’s co-ownership in 2014, paying only € 4.5 million out of the nine they'd initially agreed with Udinese. A few weeks after Isla had moved to Turin, Juve bought Djalo and Hidalgo from Granada for € 3 million, and exercised a € 1.5 million buy-out clause for attacking winger Christian Pasquato. Pasquato himself has hardly gone on to greater things, having only played one minute with the Bianconeri throughout his career.
Because of these transactions, the Pozzo family have received the same amount of money (€ 18 million) that the two sides had agreed at the beginning of the negotiations, whilst Juventus have reduced the risk of a potential loss from the sale of the former QPR player, as they have diversified their investment.
Time will tell if they were right.
