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Beppe Marotta has commented on ongoing contract negotiations with Juventus players and describes Paul Pogba’s salary increase as ‘appropriate’.
The director general today confirmed that the France international has extended his contract with Juve until June 2019, with it expected to increase his salary from €1.5m to as much as €4.5m.
“We deem the salary increase for Pogba appropriate to his value,” Marotta has told today’s shareholders’ meeting.
“I remind you that in the Bayern battleship which beat Roma, there are many players who earn more than €10m.”
During his segment, Marotta also gave an insight into Juve’s recent transfer activity, the possibility of their young loanees making the breakthrough and the decision to offer outcast Jorge Martinez a new deal.
“Contractual situations vary in age, and human and technical values. All six players – Chiellini, Buffon, Giovinco, Storari, Lichtsteiner and Pepe – have great human values, but the conditional factor is the sporting one. We have started negotiations with all of them.
“We have no less than 64 players out on loan. Barring some seniors like De Ceglie and Martinez, all the other [loan] reports are of great interest to us.
“This is the list of our 10 most interesting youngsters of 1993 or 1994 who are ours outright – Berardi, Boakye, Gabbiadini, Leali, Magnusson, Rosetti, Rugani, Sorensen, Spinazzola and Sturaro.
“The market in January? Today, it’s difficult to give any answers. We'll see how the Champions League goes and whether there will be any opportunities.
“Usually there are not many [opportunities] to add quality to the team. Martinez? We renewed his contract in order to reduce his salary by 50 per cent. We hope that this is the last year he is on our books.
“The negotiations of the market? I’m proud to say that we’ve achieved the [market] goals we put in place.
“Zaza and Berardi? Both players are under our watch, and our relationship with Sassuolo is great, if we wanted to bring them to our club.
“We loaned [Sturaro] to Genoa despite some disagreements with them, but we have to be forward-thinking from a sporting perspective, and we know that [Sturaro’s] natural habitat for growth is Genoa.
“Evra? We paid a very low price for him, considering that he is used to winning. When we sign players like Pereyra, for example, it takes time [for them] to understand what it means to fight.”
Marotta then reiterated his stance that Antonio Conte’s exit before the start of the season was not motivated by a lack of funds available to him.
“There was no difficult resolution with Conte, but it wasn’t because of money. It was consensual and friendly,” the ex-Sampdoria director added.