Juventus in no rush to extend Evra, Barzagli
Juventus are in no hurry to extend former Manchester United fullback Patrice Evra, Andrea Barzagli and other players whose contracts are close to expiring, calciomercato.com can reveal.
The priority, rather, seems to be to exercise the club’s options to buy both Juan Cuadrado and make sure Real Madrid don’t exercise theirs over Alvaro Morata.
It is also rather likely that those players who are nearing the end of their current deals are on their way out, anyway. Good examples of this are Simone Padoin and former Genoa one-seaso wonder Rubinho.
Frenchman Evra has been solid as a starter this season, and has played almost every game despite Alex Sandro’s arrival. It turns out that the former Monaco full-back’s experience is being counted on to help Alex to adjust to life in Serie A as smoothly as possible.
Evra and the Bianconeri have never modified his two-year deal, with the Frenchman already expressing an interest in moving away, possibly to Monaco, the club with which he reached an unlikely Champions League final in 2003/2004.
The Old Lady could still choose to stick with him at the end of the year if the transfer market doesn’t offer anything on the left which matches Juve’s wishes. Competent left-backs don’t exactly grow on trees…
Andrea Barzagli’s case is a tad more complicated, with Juventus being able to use him as a very handy emergency right-back despite the injuries which ravaged his 2014/2015 season.
The former Palermo and Wolfsburg man - also born in ’81 like Evra – has yet to make a decision. Things are likely to pick up steam either during the Spring or before the European Championship: if Barzagli were to feel sufficiently in shape to remain as the Old Lady’s first reserve in defence, then a deal friendly to both player and club could be drawn up.
The priority, rather, seems to be to exercise the club’s options to buy both Juan Cuadrado and make sure Real Madrid don’t exercise theirs over Alvaro Morata.
It is also rather likely that those players who are nearing the end of their current deals are on their way out, anyway. Good examples of this are Simone Padoin and former Genoa one-seaso wonder Rubinho.
Frenchman Evra has been solid as a starter this season, and has played almost every game despite Alex Sandro’s arrival. It turns out that the former Monaco full-back’s experience is being counted on to help Alex to adjust to life in Serie A as smoothly as possible.
Evra and the Bianconeri have never modified his two-year deal, with the Frenchman already expressing an interest in moving away, possibly to Monaco, the club with which he reached an unlikely Champions League final in 2003/2004.
The Old Lady could still choose to stick with him at the end of the year if the transfer market doesn’t offer anything on the left which matches Juve’s wishes. Competent left-backs don’t exactly grow on trees…
Andrea Barzagli’s case is a tad more complicated, with Juventus being able to use him as a very handy emergency right-back despite the injuries which ravaged his 2014/2015 season.
The former Palermo and Wolfsburg man - also born in ’81 like Evra – has yet to make a decision. Things are likely to pick up steam either during the Spring or before the European Championship: if Barzagli were to feel sufficiently in shape to remain as the Old Lady’s first reserve in defence, then a deal friendly to both player and club could be drawn up.
