FOCUS: why Sanchez can't join Juve

Today, the Sunday Mirror reported that both Juventus and Atletico Madrid are thinking about the Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez, whose contract with Arsenal will expire in June 2018. How could the bianconeri sign the 28-year-old after that they failed in the attempt to bring him to Turin while he was playing for Barcelona?

It’s true, Juventus’s incomes have augmented in the last two years, and the good performances offered by their team in the Champions League have made Turin an agreeable destination, but a negotiation for the former Udinese man would be in any case too difficult to carry out.

El Nino Maravilla has in fact a €40-million transfer fee and earns €9 million per season (and is in talks with Arsenal to earn more): such amounts are unaffordable for an Italian club, even for Juventus.

Gianluca Minchiotti - precis translation by M.G.