Juventus Official Announcements and Interviews

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Jean-Claude Blanc speaks across the board



Exactly two weeks before the new season kicks off, the new 2008/09 Juventus continues to take shape. In a period where even the European championships risk being obscured by all the summer transfer rumours, it was up to Jean-Claude Blanc to recap the situation. The Managing Director gave a long interview with Sky Sport, showed during the “Euro Calciomercatoâ€

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27 June 2008
Transfer market: joint-ownerships settled yesterday.

The 25th of June was scheduled to be the last day to sort out joint ownership contracts. And Juventus indeed solved all the situations still pending.

One day after extending his contract (until 2013) and renewing the joint ownership with Udinese, Michele Paolucci was again the star of Juve's negotiations. Indeed Juventus approved the striker's temporary transfer from Udinese to Catania.

These are the other operations finalized yesterday; they all concern young players grown up at Juventus who last season played in teams from Serie A, B and C.

Matteo Cavagna: joint ownership with Ravenna was renewed and the player's contract was extended until 2011;
Andre Cuneaz: Juventus bought out full ownership of the player, paying Pistoiese € 500;
Davide Di Berardino: Juventus bought out full ownership of the player, paying Juve Stabia € 8k;
Stefano Dicuonzo: Juventus bought out full ownership of the player, paying Ravenna € 500;
Tomas Guzman: joint ownership with Piacenza renewed;
Andrea Luci: Ascoli and Juventus will make undisclosed bids for the player and the highest one will win;
Matteo Paro: Genoa bought out full ownership of the player, paying Juventus € 2m.
Giuseppe Rizza: Juventus bought out full ownership of the player, paying Juve Stabia € 50k;
Matteo Trini: Juventus bought out full ownership of the player, paying Juve Stabia € 5k;
Francesco Volpe: joint ownership with Livorno renewed;
Pietro Zammuto: Piacenza bought out full ownership of the player, paying Juventus € 170k.


No word re Lanzafame! Ihope they haven't sold him! We might regret that!

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looks like our management is confident with the defenders we have. I don't see knezevic as a starter, merely a solid back-up to mellberg, legro or andrade.

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1 July 2008

Renzo Castagnini is the new chief scout

As of today, July 1st 2008, Renzo Castagnini is the new man in charge of Juventus' talent scouts.

Born in Reggello (near Florence) on November 14th 1956, Castagnini played professional football between 1975 and 1990. After his long career as a footballer, he became a manager and since 1992 has been working as Director of Sport at many clubs, among them Barletta, Salernitana, Catania, Genoa, Vicenza and finally Piacenza, the last position he covered before reaching Turin.

At Juventus he will be working under Alessio Secco.

The new man in charge of the scouts expressed his satisfaction via a press release sent out by the Club: «I'm proud to be working for an internationally renowned Club like Juventus».

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Maybe this guy will be able to scout better players.

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I just hope that Legrottaglie has a season like he had last year, because I have no confidence in Mellberg, Knezevic or Andrade (especially after a knee injury). What happened to the Lugano deal?

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