The decisive month. August represents the turning point in the summer market, the one in which the choices are made which, barring significant winter corrections, definitively direct the season. Furthermore, this 2021 session, due to the well-known economic problems that football is going through, is a particularly complicated session, where the margin of error is even lower than usual: translated, clubs have little money and they have to spend it in the best way, trying to get the right price. Now, however, despite going slowly, the deadlines are starting to get urgent, because if it is true that the market will only end on 31 August, it is also that the championship will start 10 days earlier, forcing executives to complete a large part of the operations by that date.
La Juventus, for example, knows he has to buy at least one midfielder within a few days and the hot name is always that of Locatelli, for which a truly endless negotiation is underway. The problems have been known for some time: Sassuolo are asking for 40 million, the Bianconeri have never gone so far. Now, however, after Carnevali's words ("the boy wants Juve, but we dictate the conditions"), the decisive acceleration is expected from Turin, also to avoid a useless (and embarrassing) start for the player retirement with the neroverdi.
For the rest, waiting for the green light to arrive from Barcelona for Pjanic, the other hot name is to Kaio jorge, 19-year-old from Santos already on Milan's notebook. Juventus beat the AC Milan competition by reaching an agreement with the player, but now a real mystery has come on with the Brazilian club, which claims to have signed the striker until 2023 and not until December, as reported by many news outlets. The difference is not insignificant, because Santos, while not opposing the transfer, are asking for 15 million, making the deal certainly more onerous.
After all, the accounts are the number one discriminating factor in this market, almost everywhere, apart from PSG. It is the case ofInter, which he continues to treat undercover to reinforce himself on the wingers, currently unguarded after Hakimi's departure. Until a few days ago Nandez of Cagliari seemed to have defeated the competition, but in the last few hours important signals have arrived from London Belleri: Arsenal in fact said yes to the loan option with the right to buy, bringing the Brazilian's candidacy back into vogue.
Nothing rules out that both can arrive: indeed, the new wingers could even be three if it were to go through the Perisic-Florenzi exchange with Roma, favored above all by the fresh European champion, who has decided not to return to the capital not even with Mourinho. Who, in turn, would welcome the purchase of Perisic, certainly more functional to the 4-2-3-1 that he has in mind.
The Special One must be satisfied quickly, also because he had to say goodbye to Xhaka granite, the first goal for the midfield for a long time. The Swiss, on the other hand, after trying in every way to free himself, decided to renew with Arsenal until 2025, effectively removing himself from the market and forcing the Giallorossi to look elsewhere.
Il Milan instead he seems ever closer to locking down his best midfielder, or rather that Frank Kessie expiring in 2022. The Ivorian, after sending soothing messages from Tokyo, had a significant rapprochement with Maldini and Massara, obviously through his agent George Atangana: the meeting with the Rossoneri managers went well, so much so that the distance between demand (7 million) and supply (6 plus bonuses) it seems increasingly less clear-cut.
However, the scenario is different Insigne, the renewal of which is still on the high seas. Lorenzo should meet De Laurentiis on August 5th, the day on which he will join his teammates for the second phase of the training camp in Castel di Sangro. At the moment, the premises do not allow for optimism, given that the blue president has no intention of raising the initial offer, which is very far from the player's requests: however, it is unlikely that the matter can be resolved with a divorce, at least in the immediate, given that Insigne has already made it known that he would not leave Naples before the June 2022 deadline.
In short, hot days, also because from abroad, in the meantime, anti-crisis barrels continue to arrive. The Real Madrid, for example, is making a very tight court to Mbappé, so much so that in Spain there is talk of a monstrous offer of 25 million per season, but above all of a signing bonus of 40. PSG will try to relaunch, there is no doubt about this, but if the Frenchman refuses any agreement , the most sensational transfer of the summer will materialize, with all that could ensue. Al-Khelaifi would pounce on Pogba, after which he would try to take another top striker and here we go back to talking about Ronaldo, whose silence authorizes us to think that the games are not completely done.
Nothing to argue about instead Chiellini, who will sign a renewal with Juventus on Monday: his salary will drop to 2,5 million, but the blue captain will have a 1+1 contract, which will allow him to pursue the last two major goals of his career, namely the Champions League and the World Cup in Qatar.
