Tuttomercato believes there have already been talks between Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur that would include the departure of Serge Aurier and the arrival of Juventus’ Alex Sandro.
One way of kickstarting the transfer window in a damaged economy is the addition of the old “swap” element into the equation. Ordinarily, this is a suggestion I’d dismiss as fantasy, few if any such deals make it from the back pages to reality. However, the financial backlash is very real. To bring Sandro to London would, it is thought, require Serge going the other way, and Daniel Levy topping up the deal with cash.
Capturing the 29-year-old would be a coup of sorts, the player has been on the radar of Premier League heavyweights such as Chelsea and Manchester United. The £44million asking price for Sandro is prohibitive, but to move Aurier on at the same time, could be seen as killing two birds with the same stone.
The forthcoming windows will require agility and guile – which we are told by many – Levy has in spades. This type of deal would prove it…
Yep.
We’re not spending big on a 29 yo. No chance!
So, we give Juve Aurier and top the deal up with cash, that’ll be £44m we pay them then!
Agility and guile for land and property deals, idiocy and sloth for football matters. We’ll start the new season with Aurier and most of the present squad. Players on fat pre Covid contracts are not going to move, especially for a lower salary. It will be hard to tempt players to leave their present clubs for the same reason. I think the academy players will play a far bigger part for every club. The transfer market will fall especially for the second rate and injury prone of which we have so many examples, Davies, Rose, Walker – Peters, Aurier, Lamela, Clark. The market for quality will dip but stay strong for the top players.
Sandro is too old for Levy to authorise.