Despite the weakened squad, Victory is confident Friday night's game will be a sellout, with just 6000 tickets still available.
"A little bit of disappointment I guess that Trezeguet is going back to Italy, but it's still a fantastic squad coming," Victory football operations manager Gary Cole said yesterday.
"This is the most successful football team in the world -- 51 trophies, 40 of them in Italy -- and the young squad that's going to be here are the stars of the future of a massive club.
"Juventus is one of the largest football brands in the world because they've got such a fantastic football history.
"Yeah, they've got a number of big-name stars missing, but you don't win the amount of silverware they do without having fantastic depth.
"This is going to be a fast, attacking, high-intensity brand of football that's going to be fantastic entertainment."
Victory was given guarantees that Juve would bring its best squad, but Cole denied the club would be seeking compensation.
"The contract was organised by the commercial department. There were some guarantees but what do you say to David Trezeguet?" he said.
"There are always clauses. We can't help the fact that Euro 2008 is on as well."
From Victory's point of view, the main interest continues to be Archie Thompson and his Socceroo aspirations.
Thompson was overlooked by national coach Pim Verbeek for Sunday's World Cup qualifier against Iraq to allow him to improve his fitness.
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