Juve Table Bid For Ferrari
Juventus have launched a bid to sign Roma defender Matteo Ferrari, the player’s agent has confirmed.
The Bianconeri are desperately short of numbers in defence, and for this reason they have delayed Jean-Alain Boumsong’s move to Lyon.
Juve currently have Giorgio Chiellini, Jonathan Zebina and Jorge Andrade out injured, while Domencio Criscito has been sent out on loan to Genoa.
Sports director Alessio Secco is frantically looking around trying to sign a centre-back as not including Boumsong, Juve have just one natural centre back available (Nicola Legrottaglie) at the moment.
Secco believes that Ferrari could be the perfect option, as the 28-year-old’s contract runs out at the end of the season. Therefore it is hoped that Roma may be tempted into selling him for a minimal fee.
“I am working hard to try and find an agreement with Roma, so it was a thunderbolt to hear that Juve were interested, even if it was good news,” Ferrari’s representative Gianni Corci stated on Romanews.eu.
“I’m not surprised that Juve are interested in Matteo, but at the moment the priority is renewing his contract at Roma.
“Still, in football anything is possible even if I don’t think that there is time for a move in January. I don’t know where Roma stand – all I know is that Juve have requested Matteo.
“There is no fixed date for a meeting with the Giallorossi yet and they haven’t called to say that Matteo is for sale so I am calm. But who knows what will happen before the 31st?”
It is believed that Juventus will forbid Boumsong’s move to Lyon to go through until at least one centre-back is brought into the club as a replacement.
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