Emre Can believes his transfer to Juventus was fate as his agent had been in contact with the Bianconeri for ‘many years’.
Can was finally unveiled as a Juve player on Monday, and the former Liverpool midfielder hinted he had turned down the likes of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to join the Old Lady, who share his ‘mentality’ of winning trophies.
“My first impressions of the club? I knew it was a huge club before, you can see it through the headquarters and facilities,” he began.
Emre Can believes his transfer to Juventus was fate as his agent had been in contact with the Bianconeri for ‘many years’.
Can was finally unveiled as a Juve player on Monday, and the former Liverpool midfielder hinted he had turned down the likes of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to join the Old Lady, who share his ‘mentality’ of winning trophies.
“My first impressions of the club? I knew it was a huge club before, you can see it through the headquarters and facilities,” he began.
“It’s my first day, everything is good and I’m really happy to be here. I had contact with Sami, he told me before the club was big and I’m very happy to be here.
“My first manager when I started playing football, he was Italian and I’m still in contact with him.
“He’s a huge Juve fan and when I was 6-7-8, he told me that one day I’d play for Juve. Now I’m here, it’s a very cool story and he’s very happy that I’m here.
“As for players [when I was growing up], there was Nedved, Del Piero and a lot of [other] good players.
“I don’t think the World Cup will be a problem for the players. Juve have good players and it won’t affect us next season. After the World Cup, they’ll be rested and fresh again.
“Ronaldo? I think for every player, it would be great to play with a big player like Cristiano Ronaldo.
“Honestly I don’t know if there were contacts between the club and the player, I’m focused on my stuff, but obviously if he comes it would be great.
“Why I chose Juve? The club had good contact with my agent for many years, I know what a huge club this is, the mentality, they just want to win titles and that’s my mentality too. I came here to win titles.
“My first target is Serie A and then the Champions League. I know they haven’t won it for 22-23 years, and of course our aim has to be the Champions League.
“That’s why I’m here, I want to help the team and altogether we can do it because we have a great team, but our main focus is Serie A.
“I’ve talked to the manager but not yet about tactics, although I think it’ll happen in the next few days or weeks.
“My favourite role? I can play in a lot of positions but I feel at home in midfield, although the manager decides. I just want to help the team, if I play defence, striker, goalkeeper or midfield. One of my biggest idols was Zinedine Zidane, he played here too…
“Bayern and Madrid? I had a lot of offers from very good teams but I decided to come to Juve because the project is very big, they have very big aims and I want to be part of the project.
“Problems with Klopp? I’ve heard that for the first time… I had very good relationship with Klopp, he wished me all the best
“I know how Juve play, I watched a lot of their games last season, the players welcomed me very well and asked me about my holidays and injury.”
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