The Juventus Courier
Squad23 Aug 2027
Kenan Yıldız in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventus this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Francesco Verde at Juventus
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Francesco Verde is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Juventus training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dušan Vlahović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Juventus
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market23 Aug 2027
Francesco Verde attracts admirers
The name of Francesco Verde has come up in conversations Juventus were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Kenan Yıldız
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
One of those days for Kenan Yıldız
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Salvatore De Angelis joins the Juventus first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Salvatore De Angelis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Juventus promote Pietro Villa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pietro Villa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Juventus promote Leonardo Vannucci from within
- Squad A late step up for Arthur
- Player ratings One of those days for Dušan Vlahović