Pierre Kalulu has admitted that a conversation with Thiago Motta helped convince him to join Juventus during the summer transfer window.
Heading into the summer there wasn’t too much speculation about Kalulu leaving Milan, but then the signing of Strahinja Pavlovic seemed to push him towards the exit door.
Juventus took an interest and a deal was eventually worked out after early suggestions that the Frenchman was unsure about the move. Since then, he has consistently started for the Old Lady, given Gleison Bremer’s injury.
The Bianconeri have a €14m option to buy built into the deal and it seems that will become a formality within the next few months, which might leave Milan with a tinge of regret.
Kalulu gave an interview to DAZN in which he spoke about his decision to join the Bianconeri in the summer mercato, with his comments relayed by MilanPress.
“I have never made easy choices in my career. When you feel the trust of the club and you understand that someone really wants you, then you can give your best. We are human and we work with our hearts,” he said.
“When I called the coach, he immediately said to me: ‘Are you ready to play every 3 days?’ I replied: ‘Yes, where do you see me playing?’ And he: ‘On the right, in the center and on the left’.
“There I thought: if he sees me everywhere, for me it’s the best. And then he closed by saying: ‘Know that the choices for games are made based on training!’ And at Juve it’s like that.”
Kalulu > Emerson…
He made a couple of good games but since then his from has been so-so.
He’s not a cb and his from will be so-so whenever he plays cb.
He might be so-so, but our defenders are so bad-so average. It’s not like we had Nesta in the CB and Cafu the RB position. We spent 33M€ to downgrade our defense.
He was also bad-so when he was at Milan. Or injured.
It is what it is. Tho I’d 100% play him over royal on rb. 1000%
The fúck did we need to buy royal whe we had 5 rb players. Idiots
Got rid of Tonali and brought in RLC (yes RLC as he wears #8 and no, not Reijnders who’s a completely different player). Trash.
Got rid of Gabbia (thankfully only on loan) to bring in Pellegrino. Trash.
Got rid of Kalulu to bring in Pavlovic. Trash.
Now they want to get rid of Calabria because of Emerson. Trash.
The bozo show is what this is.
You’re such a tough guy Ted, calling other human beings trash, professional footballers no less, from behind your keyboard.
Tonali was/is an average player. We got way more money then he is worth which allowed us to bring in multiple players both RLC who scored 10 goals and was MVP of the team for the month of January last season and Reijnders who is now playing better than Tonali ever has or ever will. It was a great move by the team. Meanwhile Tonali is coming off the bench for a mid-table premier league club.
Calabria is washed up as a RB. He can’t stay with anyone anymore. Emerson has not been great but he’s been better than Calabria.
Sorry to introduce some reality into your fantasy.
Ted is a hindsight warrior. Beyond any objectivity or common sense.
You two snowflakes who constantly insult snd call people out because you cannot deal with their opinions, should get a room. And blow each other.
Not an insult. Just my opinion of you. Don’t get bent out of shape. This place isn’t for anyone with delicate sensibilities.
Wait LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 pot calling kettle here or what. You’re the one to talk about name calling? You’ve called ppl here mor.on stu.pid etc. I’m pretty sure you’ve called “professional footballers no less” trash. Origi comes to mind.
What this world coming to? Haha thx for the laughs though
One of the most hateful and insulting persons on this blog calling me a keyboard warrior. And to top it all, he’s doing so while missing the context.
Where am I insulting them as a human beings? You know what, nah don’t bother. Blow me.
That’s a lot of sexual references, Ted.
This would’ve made sense if Pavlovic wasn’t so raw and Tomori/Thiaw weren’t seesawing between playing like Maldini and Zapata.