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Juventus board pull the rug from beneath jittery giants
Today news has broken out of the Juventus camp as they announced that their £115,000,000 deal with PSG for defensive midfielder J_Lepenant is now off.
A deal between the two clubs had been agreed weeks ago, however at the time that the deal was made public by Banks and Juventus, the PSG board & manager Simon Clarke seemed like they weren’t fully committed to the deal, making comments in public which led people to think that the French club wouldn’t actually go through with the deal.
Since then, the PSG board and manager Simon Clark have raised concerns on multiple occasions over the £115,000,000 deal with Juventus, going as far as to claim that Juventus head coach Andy Banks wasn’t serious when he agreed the deal weeks prior with the latest coming in a sale thread for Premier League team Arsenal where PSG had no business being.
The Juventus board seem to have now had enough as they will no longer be signing Lepenant as they now make their own claims that PSG were the team who weren’t serious about the sale and suspect that Clarke had plans to offload the player elsewhere and to snub Banks & Juventus with Neil Kirby’s Fiorentina being the favourites to sign him now.
Where does this leave Juventus now? Did Juventus really need another defensive midfielder? Here to answer those questions and more, Juventus manager Andy Banks;
“Of course it’s disappointing that the board members here have felt the need to act now before we end up with egg on our faces.
Ever since we met the fee required by PSG, their representatives have made it hard to keep the deal in place with their manager shouting the odds in the media every few days…trying to chop and change the deal which was already agreed. We let a lot of that slide but now since the latest comments…in the Arsenal for sale thread and this week the constantly asking if the deal was still on, that was too much.
It just seems like they’re regretting making a deal with us and are trying their hardest to make it collapse and they’ve got their wish now.
We had made a separate deal with J_Lepenant involved which would see him and another player in our squad leave with another coming in but now that deal has to be put on the back burner or reworked too and that’s why making deals for the end of the season can be tricky especially when dealing with shady characters like that Simon Clarke.
We’ll pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off, we have a few irons in the fire and we’ll see where they take us. I just hope that others can learn from this experience and avoid the pitfalls of dealing with certain football clubs.”
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