The knot is always the same and will only be resolved on the Turin-Manchester-Naples axis, with a possible stop in Madrid. To hold court in the Italian and European transfer market are always the events related to Gonzalo Higuain and Paul Pogba. The Napoli centre-forward seems increasingly willing to change the air (even if in reality he only let it be known through his brother-agent, he is on vacation and has not yet spoken), but De Laurentiis continues to block: any aspirant, Juventus including, must pay the clause of 94,7 million euros, non-negotiable. "And we need the player's yes", added the Neapolitan president: in reality this would seem to be the least of the problems, but the Napoli number one so wanted to put psychological pressure on the Argentine attacker, who by leaving "would betray himself and the his love declared to the Neapolitans”. The deadline for payment of the clause is set for July 31st, however, afterwards, apparently, it would still be possible to take Higuain away from Naples by adding a further penalty to the total amount: at the moment the only practically certain thing is that in any case the Argentine, who is en route with De Laurentiis but who has an excellent relationship with Sarri, should go to Dimaro on Monday 25 July.
In any case, to support an investment it is likely that Juventus must first place Pogba at Manchester United. Paul already has a deal with the British, 12 million euros net plus one bonus per year for 5 seasons. Yesterday in the evening the Equipe had opened the site talking about an agreement already reached between the clubs for 120 million and a done deal, but only denials came from Juve. In reality it seems that 20 million euros are still dancing between supply and demand. The knot to solve is the amount that Pogba will have to collect: based on a gentleman agreement, the player is entitled to about 20% of the total amount paid to the Lady for his card. For this reason, the Bianconeri do not want to go below 120 million and have already pointed this out to Ed Woodward, the CEO of United. 90-95% of the deal will be done, barring twists and turns: one of these could be the inclusion of Real Madrid in the negotiation, at Zidane's insistence who would like to secure the services of his compatriot.
