Besiktas vice-President Hüseyin Yücel has confirmed that his team have recently been interested in pursuing a deal for unwanted Juventus and Italy forward Federico Chiesa, but he claimed that the club have since moved on after hearing of the player’s ‘illogical’ salary request.
Chiesa is widely tipped to leave Juventus before the end of the summer transfer window, as he is not part of coach Thiago Motta’s plans heading into the 2024-25 season.
What Yücel said about Chiesa and Besiktas interest
Yücel suggested that there are seven clubs who are interested in striking a deal with Juventus for Chiesa, but the Old Lady are yet to receive a formal offer for the former Fiorentina man.
The Besiktas vice-President also confirmed that he and his colleagues had discussed the idea of bringing the 26-year-old to Turkey for ‘about 10 days’, but now they will move on to other targets.
Yücel believes that Chiesa is asking for a salary of around €9m per season.
“It’s true, we were talking about Chiesa for about 10 days,” Yücel said, reported via Corriere dello Sport.
“I would like to point out that the player has a salary expectation of around €9 million, on top of Juve’s request to settle for around €15m.
“Currently, seven clubs are on his trail, but the requests are illogical and it is not possible for us to satisfy them. For that reason, the player is no longer on Besiktas’s agenda. The club’s interests are more important than the names of the players.”
Besiktas recently welcomed another Italy representative to the club in Ciro Immobile, who joined in a permanent deal from Lazio earlier this summer.
🤔Il vice presidente del #Besiktas: "Stiamo parlando da dieci giorni #Chiesa, ma le sue richieste…" https://t.co/2ThkicXnCa
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Chiesa obviously wants to stay put, see his overpayed contract out at Piemonte Calcio and then leave like a free man he is.
If Chiesa decides to stay put he will be banished to the stands and he can stay put sitting with the fans. It’s the last thing he needs to do given his long lay off with the ACL. One year out of the game will kill him as a player so Inter can have him then because he will be only a shadow of the player he was and probably on a very high salary.
Chiesa and Immobile would be nuts! Is this comment acceptable ? You don’t publish any of my others for some bizarre reason!