Allegri: "With Bonucci it was already clear from February

The Juventus coach clarifies the Bonucci case: "I'm sorry it ended like this. We have to accept the possibility of quitting".

Leonardo Bonucci is now a foreign body at Juventus , one year after the expiry of the contract: the club has long since communicated to him the exclusion from the project, which is why the search is underway for a new team from which to start again (Genoa, Lazio and Union Berlin the most interested).

A topic addressed by Massimiliano Allegri in the interview granted to 'DAZN' (the complete version will be released on Thursday).

In the first excerpts aired, the coach from Livorno also spoke of Chiesa , Naples and Spalletti , recently appointed coach of the national team in Mancini's place.

BONUCCI OUT OF THE PROJECT

"I'm sorry it ended like this. We've been clear with Leo since last February, I've spoken to him several times. Both me and the club, saying that next year would be a year in which he would have to decide whether to continue from another When you reach the age of 36, you have made Juve history, 500 games and you were a player on the pitch, even lame... He gave a lot to Juve, Juve gave a lot to him. He has to make an important decision for him, looking at the future and not at a year. He's young. What I say I said to him in unsuspecting times: it's normal for a champion like him to reach the end of his career, if it's not this year he will be there next year, and there is fear of quitting, it's normal. I haven't been a champion, quitting was easy for me. The dynamics are the same. The difference is that one must have the capacity to accept: if he does it first, it is good for himself. Otherwise it's boring . For me it was important, decisive. It remains in Juve's history, 500 games are played in just a few."