The investigation into Juventus finances has also provided some intriguing secrets of their approaches for Erling Haaland, Nicolò Zaniolo, Sandro Tonali and Gianluigi Donnarumma, plus other moves that did go through.

As part of the investigation from the public prosecutor of Turin into financial irregularities, Juve directors were regularly wiretapped and the details have since been released as part of their evidence dossier to request a trial.

There is no jury system in Italy, so evidence regularly gets released to the public because there is no risk of influencing a jury.

An email from November 2019 was sent by director Fabio Paratici – who has since left to join Tottenham Hotspur – to his assistant Federico Cherubini.

Also involved was Claudio Chiellini, the brother of defender Giorgio and currently the director of sport at Pisa, but at the time was working for Juventus in their scouting network.

“Young players to track: Haaland – Malen – Zaniolo – Kulusevski – Tonali – Kumbulla. Milik and Donnarumma to be tracked as their contracts run down in 2021.”

Some of those moves did indeed go through eventually, albeit in a different way to what was expected in 2019.

Dejan Kulusevski was purchased from Atalanta in January 2020 for €35m and left on loan at Parma for another six months, before his sale to Tottenham Hotspur.

Arkadiusz Milik did move to Juve eventually on loan from Olympique Marseille, but it was well known in 2020 that he was pushing to leave Napoli for Juventus, with the Partenopei refusing to let him make that switch.

Gianluigi Donnarumma did let his contract with Milan run down and it was widely reported that Juventus decided against signing him, so he went to PSG instead.

As for others, Juventus had been tracking Haaland since at least 2018 when he was at Molde, but at the time they backed out because he would’ve only joined the Under-23 squad.

8 thought on “Juventus transfer strategy from 2019 revealed in wiretaps”
  1. What is the purpose of publishing these in Italy, other than selling papers? Nothing is wrong here and it contributes nothing to the trial, but also seems like nothing is private.

  2. what bothers me, is that everything gets revealed – transfer strategies, internal conflicts, information about players that can be an easy buy for other clubs. Is this even fair? There is a lot of documentary that should not be revealed. One thing is a closed investigation. The other thing is this absurd revenge that fifa and ueafa are pushing against clubs. Double standard.

  3. Haaland is a lucky boy to have dodged Operation Bungle. One session with PhD Max and he will be hypnotised into defending.

  4. Even Giogrio’s brother was wheeling the dumpster around Turin. One has to wonder how deep this watergate style operation goes.

  5. ros and ravenelli – you need to understand these are release partly to us as they figures behind the transfer bid wre bent

  6. @Mohammad you NEED to understand that not all of the wiretapped are relevance to the case, hence why are these published? Afaik, the inflated transfer fee case was also alleged to other clubs, but we don’t hear the wiretapped from other clubs.

  7. kunz – stop crying, you have to understand that we’ve been corrupt, yet again, evidence is all over – start to admit to it.

    were valued as much as bitcoin or the zimbabwe currency

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