Todibo to Juve: when it closes with Nice, the formula and the details

For the Frenchman, the exact formula of the loan is being discussed: once the main transfers are closed, Giuntoli will move to Atalanta

R exists, the “If”. And it will resist - as always on the market - until the signatures cancel it. But it is now starting to be overshadowed by the “When”. That is, when Jean-Clair Todibo will become a Juventus player . Barring any sensational surprises, but always possible in this area, the negotiations between Cristiano Giuntoli and his Nice colleague Florian Maurice seem to be heading towards a happy ending. Happy for Juve, who, having lost Calafiori, had chosen the twenty-four-year-old Frenchman (already courted in 2018 when he was at Toulouse and Barcelona won) as the first objective for the defense, and happy for Todibo who, blocked by UEFA from his transfer to Manchester United because Nice and the Red Devils have the same ownership, once the Bianconeri had come forward had told the Rossoneri not to accept other destinations.

The offer to Nice

A little less happy for Nice, who would have preferred to sell him to West Ham for 30 million, but ultimately acceptable. Also because otherwise they would not accept the Juventus proposal. Which proposal? The one that Giuntoli and Maurice still have to give definitive form to, but on whose structure they have already reached a basic agreement, solving the main issue: the loan. Nice has accepted the formula, the details of which must now be worked out : it will be expensive, because the French want to cash in something immediately, and almost certainly with an obligation to redeem, perhaps conditioned on easy objectives. The final cost should in any case be around 25 million: how many immediately, how many in a year, how many tied to a technical counterpart that could be Nonge, how many to possible bonuses, are other topics of the negotiations of these days. Which should lead to the closing of the operation in a short time. How little will also depend on the Huijsen situation , which you read on the side.

Koopmeiners, the situation

More time will be needed, even if the fresh money from the sales of the Dutch defender naturalized Spanish and Matias Soulé were to arrive shortly , to reach the other big target of the Juventus market : Teun Koopmeiners . More time will be needed, because first an agreement will have to be found with Atalanta on the valuation: 40-45 million for the Juventus club, where the Dutchman is said to be ready to move, 60 for the Nerazzurri club. The distance is not unbridgeable, but it is important: to bridge it, steps will be needed from both sides and the feeling is that no one is in a hurry to do the first, nor does it have the intention of taking a long time. But halfway can be reached even with small steps.