Free Transfer Kings
Juventus FC are always considered to be a force to be reckoned with when the Italian league is mentioned during the course of any conversation. Juventus FC is a very big Club as far as Serie A is concerned.
However, unlike most top clubs around Europe, Juventus do not spend much money on player recruitment or spend huge sum on a single player. They have managed to attract good players without paying a transfer fee. Below are some key transfers the Turin based outfit have managed to pull off for free.
Outstanding transfers in time past
1. Fabio Cannavaro Real Madrid 2009
2. Andrea Pirlo A.C Milan 2011
3. Paul Pogba Man. UTD. 2011
Photo: Paul Labile Pogba Gettyimage
4. Lucio Inter Milan 2012
5. Llorente Atletic Club 2013
6. K. Coman PSG. 2014
7. Sami Khedira Real Madrid 2015
8. Dani Alves Barcelona 2016
9. Emre Can Liverpool 2016
Juventus have won several scudetto in the past seven Italian League season, a look at some of their latest recruit for the 2019/2020 season on free just shows you how good the Turin based side’s transfer policy is.
According to Transfermakt, the Italian side signed Adrien Rabiot, 24 (PSG), Gianluigi Buffon, 41 (PSG) and Aaron Ramsey, 28 (Arsenal), with the later being on a bumper deal worth 400,000 Euros per week, all for free.
Photo: screenshot from Transfermakt.com
- Despite focussing their attention on free agents, Juventus pulled off a massive deal with the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid for a reported fee worth around 100million euros for a then 33year old in the summer of 2018 and followed that up with the signing of former Ajax Captain, Mathijs De Ligt for over 85.50million euros in the summer of 2019 (Transfermakt).
Photo: Ronaldo and his teammates celebrating a goal
Current Deal
According to Calciomercato, Juventus are looking to make an approach for Chelsea FC player Willian, who is set to become a free agent by the end of the 2019/2020 campaign, with the report also claiming that the Brazilian wants the move to the Alianz Arena.
Photo: Willian
If this deal goes through, Willian will join an exclusive list of players who were signed for free by the Old Ladies.
