In the summer, Pierre Kalulu experienced several possibilities. A right-back, a third-choice central defender, but it ended with him being a Juventus player. With the Frenchman already impressing, some have compared the move to Edgar Davids’ departure from AC Milan.
Looking back to the summer, Milan knew in the early stages that they wanted Youssouf Fofana to improve the midfield. The same clarity was not had in other areas, though, and this shone in the defence.
During the early parts of pre-season, Paulo Fonseca had trialled Kalulu at right-back, and the defender was impressing. However, with the Rossoneri reigniting an interest in Emerson Royal, the defence looked bloated, and a sacrifice needed to be made.
When Juventus came in for the defender, there were two contrasting reactions. The fans, and more importantly Kalulu, were not sure of a move, but the club seemed happy to part with him.
Now, with him thriving for the Old Lady, fans are once again questioning the decision, especially considering the Bianconeri have a €14 million buy option in the loan contract, and even though it could rise to €17m, this still feels like a bargain.
Milan News have recalled how a similar event occurred in the 1990s, as the Diavolo parted ways with Edgar Davids, only for him to become a mainstay in the Juventus team. The future is now out of the Rossoneri’s hands, unfortunately, but it could be a decision they live to regret.
Somebody in the club needs to answer for this!!
It’s an absolute farce.
The squad we have is an utter mess, not suited to any formation. How many players have been signed since the takeover after winning scudetto? 20? 30?
Instead we get dominated by Leverkusen, who incidently were beaten by Leipzig recently (the team Juve beat with Kalulu staring again)
And we have Emerson F-cking Royale!!
I have complete understanding if a good player is signed and they don’t work out, for many reasons. I cannot tolerate selling a good proven, loyal player to bring in someone who EVERYONE knows is Cr^p!!!!!
FYI
“Kalulu 8.5 – What a performance from the Milan loanee. He just got better and better during the match and made two key blocks when the Bianconeri were one goal up and one man down. Absolutely stunning.”
GdS named him Man Of The Match against Napoli as well. But hey, capital gains baby!
1. Calcio math doesnt work!
2. Actually Leverkusen is one of thr best playing Clubs.
3. Calcio math doesnt work!
4. Aston Villa Beats Real Madrid.
But I agree with you about Kalulu.
While I loved Davids as a player due to his aggressiveness, Davids just didn’t work well with our system back in the day for some reason or the other. However we’ve seen Kalulu play very well with us and was functional to our team. There’s a bit of a difference there
“During the early parts of pre-season, Paulo Fonseca had trialled Kalulu at right-back, and the defender was impressing.”
He was impressing so much at right back that he didn’t play one single game in pre season at RB and he played in 4 out of 5 pre season games. In one of those pre season games, Saelemaekers was playing ans started as a RB but not Kalulu. Saelemaekers also isn’t with the team anymore.
It was nothing but a report that we were reading that he was impressing. If he actually was, he would have played as a RB in the games.
He plays as a CB at Juventus. If he stayed at Milan, he would have sat on the bench. He isn’t starting over Gabbia nor over Tomori.
I wish all the best to Kalulu, but let’s stop with the exaggeration. It’s been only a handful of games. We watched him for 4 years at Milan. He couldn’t keep the starting CB position that was his, nor he could beat out Calabria or Florenzi for the RB position, and those 2 have missed a lot of time because of injuries in the last 3,years.
Looks like Juventus just lost for the season the best CB in the league. Let’s see how good Juventus defense will be without him.
Youre right Z, we Never know how things would have gone, if kalulu stayed.
We also dont know, how Calafiori would have been, if he played a year for us instead Bologna.
He gave us the funds for Emerson. Same as Tonali gave us the funds for non functional crop of midfielders.