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Juventus are reportedly gunning to signal not one, however two defenders in January, albeit by totally different formulation.
Thiago Motta has been left with a depleted backline following the ACL accidents of Gleison Bremer and Juan Cabal. The Brazilian centre-back and the Colombian left-back are anticipated to stay on the sidelines till the tip of the season.
In latest months, the Bianconeri have been linked with a plethora of potential candidates for the function, and Antonio Silva has now emerged as a major candidate for the function.
The 21-year-old has misplaced his beginning berth at Benfica following the appointment of Bruno Lage who prefers Tomas Araujo and Nicolas Otamendi on the coronary heart of the backline.
Due to this fact, the younger Portuguese is seemingly wanting to league Lisbon as quickly as potential, and his agent Jorge Mendes may mastermind a switch to Turin because of his glorious rapport with the Juventus administration.
In keeping with La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Giovanni Albanese, the Bianconeri will probably be hoping to lure Silva on an preliminary mortgage deal. Nonetheless, the supply believes Motta is extra enticed by one other profile, particularly David Hancko.
The 27-year-old is a Slovakian defender who has been plying his commerce at Feyenoord since 2022. He additionally had a earlier expertise in Serie A, notably at Fiorentina. He also can play as a full-back when required, so the membership believes he might be the long-term inheritor of Danilo.
Nonetheless, the Dutch membership isn’t open to letting Hancko go away on mortgage, so Juventus must splash circa 25 million euros in the event that they want to safe his companies in the midst of the season.
Due to this fact, Albanese believes this deal may solely develop into believable if the Italian giants have been to sacrifice one in all their very own gamers subsequent month, with Nicolo Fagioli thought-about the almost definitely answer on this entrance as a consequence of his dwindling standing at Motta’s court docket.
Due to this fact, the report expects Juventus to attempt to signal Silva no matter how their pursuit of Hancko pans out, however signing each could be the last word goal.
