Chiesa on the market, no Juve until August 30th. And if it's not goodbye?

From contacts with Roma to rumours about Inter, all negotiations are on hold for now

If an astronaut had landed yesterday after two months in space, without having received any football news, opening the Instagram pages of Federico Chiesa and Juventus he would probably have thought that while he was among the stars the striker and the black and white club had renewed their contract. How else to interpret - from, we repeat, someone who hasn't heard anything for two months - the photo posted by Chiesa in the morning, him celebrating with the Juventus shirt, accompanied by the black and white colors (and the like from Vlahovic), and then the video on the club's account, with Chiesa entering the field to train with his teammates? (Moreover, coming in second behind Weah in the poll proposed to the players on the fastest in the squad).

Chiesa out of the project

Our astronaut would have only needed five minutes to realize that in the last two months what he had thought had not happened at all. On the contrary. And at that point he would probably have asked himself perplexed what was happening: something that many of the fans who have followed the story day by day have done and are doing. Chiesa 's post is not actually too surprising: he has always maintained that he wanted to stay. Explicitly, after the Coppa Italia final - "We'll talk about the contract, I want to stay in this great club, I want to bring Juve back to where it deserves to be" -, or implicitly, as in yesterday's post or the one on August 1st: him in training, the caption "Concentrated" and the black and white colors. Will that however has not been enough in recent months to make him find an agreement with the club on the salary adjustment that he would have wanted to renew. Also because at a certain point the economic factor was put in the background by the position taken by Thiago Motta, who explained to Giuntoli that he did not consider Chiesa ideal for his game: at that point even the old salary of 5 million plus bonuses (still among the highest of the squad) became excessive and, together with the expiration of the contract approaching, pushed the player onto the market. And out of the project.

Chiesa, Thiago Motta speaks

An extraneousness reaffirmed by the failure to be called up for the friendly on August 3 with Brest (and for the one on Tuesday with Next Gen). Certainly not a shocking choice, but not even obvious given that Chiesa had joined the group in full upon the team's return from Germany , unlike the other players outside the project. The facts were then added to by the words of Thiago Motta after the match: «He stayed in Turin for a market situation, like the others. We were clear with each of them. The club is looking for solutions and they must do the same, in the shortest time possible for their own good, for the good of the team, for everyone. These are decisions that have been made» . Words so clear as to make one think of a subsequent exclusion of Chiesa from training as well, denied instead by yesterday's video, which nevertheless highlights a difference between him and the others outside the project.

Chiesa, what future?

Neither this difference nor Chiesa's declarations of Juventusness , which could be an attempt at rapprochement, seem to be able to change the present: he is on the market (so far the subject of rumors, from Inter's interest to that of Milan, but not of negotiations, except for a contact with Roma) and out of the project, therefore from the friendlies and above all from the first two league matches, with Como and Verona. There is less certainty about what will happen after the market closes on August 30 (therefore also in Juve-Roma on September 1), if Chiesa were to still be Juventus's. In this sense, his presence in the group in training could perhaps be preparatory to a possible pragmatic return to the team, given that at that point Juventus will have to both pay him and budget for the amortization at least until January. But there are 23 days left until August 30: very short for those who are or will be on vacation, very long for the transfer market.