Pierre Kalulu’s move from AC Milan to rivals Juventus in the summer is attracting an increased amount of attention as the defender continues to shine under Thiago Motta, and a report claims that a decision regarding his future beyond the current season is imminent.
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via Radio Rossonera) has given an update on Kalulu, who joined Juve from Milan on a loan with option to buy deal towards the end of the summer transfer window, a move that surprised some fans.
Director Cristiano Giuntoli has made the permanent signing of the Frenchman from Milan one of their priorities, given how his first few performances for the club have gone plus the fact Gleison Bremer will be out for months after a ligament injury.
The paper states that the acquisition of Kalulu ‘is one of those actions to be done that the Juventus technical director has already marked on his agenda’, and the only positive for the Rossoneri is that they would net a nice capital gain.
If the move were to be made permanent, Milan would get €20m divided as follows: €3/3.5m for the loan, €14m for the option to buy plus a further €3m in bonuses.
Fabio Capello recently questioned the call to let Kalulu join Juve, while journalist Franco Ordine suggested that in doing so they had ‘solved a problem for a rival’.
sad what red birds done to this club
No me sorprende… Si contratas a un campeón de UCRANIA como DT (FONSECA) SE MIRA TODO CLARO 🤮🤮🤮😡🇺🇲🇵🇹🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Dudes been injured more than played in the last 2 years, he wasn’t gonna get much gametime so when and opportunity came he and the club decided to do it.
It’s not like they forced him out.
And it’s easy to shît on these decisions with hindsight..
I personally don’t give a fûck about Kalulu. Players like him are dime a dozen.
The cdk matter..now that one was a stupid management decision, from start to finish.
Not to mention motta has a knack in bringing what he needs from his players.
Juve has 3 primavera players playing atm and doing fine. He trust them. Our primavera players are struggling at futuro or benched in first team.
I bet if motta had them at his disposal he’d have them playing and getting confidence.
Not going hard after Motta and hiring Fonseca tells you exactly what this management and ownership sees this club as. Lack of ambition, only interested in capital gains.
Fonseca is just a mouthpiece for management. Everyone he praised during preseason was either shipped out or ended up excluded from the club’s plans. It’s no wonder the players don’t respect his direction on the field. The whole Tomori-Abraham-Pulisic debacle was hugely disappointing but not surprising to me.
What makes you think that the same players who are struggling mightily in Serie C would do any better in Serie A? Playing time? They are getting plenty of playing time in Serie C and accomplishing nothing, having the worst offense in Serie C and are in 19th place among the 20 teams in their group, even losing to a newly promoted team from Serie D.
I’m not upset at how poorly they are doing in Serie C because the objective for Milan Futuro is player development, not winning trophies or promotion. However, their difficulties in Serie C should calm the people who keep insisting that they should be playing in Serie A.
Muscle development and experience are important factors. The young players in Milan Futuro struggle to compete against grown men who have several pounds of muscle more than they have, and are much more experienced. If you add to those factors the technical skills that the grown men in Serie A have in more abundance than their Serie C counterparts, the disadvantages for the youngsters are even bigger.
Look at Bartesaghi: after 5 minutes he played in Serie A, he got expelled because of a naive tackle = lack of experience. He left the game in tears. How did that help his confidence???
These youngsters are NOT ready for Serie A. Allow them to develop in peace.
Camarda last season played for the majority of minutes in a Serie A game. He accomplished absolutely nothing in that game and looked completely out of his depth. I remember well that game. I was happy for him that he was getting a first San Siro experience but the truth is that he looked out of place.
It’s interesting that Milan Futuro is classified as a U23 team but our players are more like a U19 team which explains a lot of their struggles. See, Camarda who can’t score in Serie C, immediately scored when he played next for Italy’s U19. He can play well against other people his age but not against grown men (and that’s just fine and expected).
People like to point to the exceptions rather than to the rule. Yamal is young and can play in La Liga and the Spain National Team. Well, that occurs once in a generation that a player his age can shine so much among grown men. Think of Pele with Santos and Brazil. It never happened again in Brazil for several decades. Now the closest they have produced to that is Endrick who is doing terribly with the Brazilian National Team, and Ancelotti has given him just a few minutes with Real, declaring to the press that Endrick still needs a lot of help (and Endrick looks a lot readier than Camarda; still, he’s struggling; center backs easily bump him to the ground).
The vast majority of youth players in the world are not ready for their country’s top league. Sorry but our Futuro players are no Yamal ( and are no Endrick either). Maybe in a few years one or two of them (most likely, Camarda and/or Liberali) will get closer to that level but they are not there yet.
I’m not familiar with Juve’s young players who are playing for the first team. Maybe they are exceptions to the rule too, or readier than ours. Ours, though, don’t seem ready because despite the huge number of minutes they are getting in Serie C, they aren’t getting much done. That bodes really poorly for what they’ve been doing in Serie A.
Same payers played fine last season under abate. It’s the coach 80% and players 20% in our case.
Boner’a is cràp
Last season they were playing in Primavera league, which is different from Serie C against grown men as Luigi pointed out.