Another angle that i am thinking of is that Chiesa has a superstar status in Juve, also superstar status in the italian NT despite the last few seasons being average and riddled by injuries, is still one of the only Juve players that keeps fetching us waves of new fans around Italy due to the ‘hero’ image from the Euro’s, so if we are to replace him it probably needs to be with someone of similar international status, and by that i mean being a star player in a top national team, then also not sure exactly how the current board sees this but without him we basically have no guaranteed starters in the Italy squad either which historically always a had a core of top Juve players in it, wouldn’t rule out that we might even end up forcing his stay and giving him reassurances on this basis alone,especially now that the Calafiori deal which could have filled that ‘italian superstar’ void seems unlikely.
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Absurd numbers if true.