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Juventus target Berardi’s price tag 'no less than €25 million'
Juventus could add young Italian hotshot Domenico Berardi at the end of the season, but not for anything less than €25 million, according to Sassuolo owner Giorgio Squinzi
“Juventus can exercise the right of first refusal at the end of the season,” Squinzi revealed to Il Giornale.
“If they want him they can have him, they have the right to take him away…but for no less than €25 million. Otherwise, he’ll wear our pretty shirt again.”
Squinzi snatched Berardi during the summer transfer window. The Neroverdi resolved the co-ownership with Juventus by shelling out €10 million for the 21-year-old, though Juventus retained the option to sign Berardi in 2016.
However, it was reported at the time that the Under-21’s eventual recompra would set Juventus back a fee in the region of €18 million.
Sassuolo’s president didn’t hesitate to beef up his player’s standing, adding that “Berardi is our best player, and the most talented Italian out there. A wonderful kid, a bit timid and reserved, but very strong mentally, and the complete opposite of the skirt-chasing stereotype.”
Squinzi also had an original take on this exciting start to the Serie A season.
“I have a theory about these odd rankings. There are too many strangers in Serie A, and many don’t understand what their coaches are asking them to do. That’s why they go off the rails.
