Well despite my earlier comments I guess we are just waiting for the announcement..
Poulsen To Protesting Juve Fans: I'll Win You Over
Soon to be Juventus player Christian Poulsen is confident he will get through the resentment from the Tifosi...
Christian Poulsen's new Italian adventure has not started yet, but is already raising a few eyebrows, with Bianconeri fans admittedly against the transfer and the media constantly rehashing his past run-ins with the likes of Francesco Totti and Gennaro Gattuso, which had made the Dane a household name in the peninsula.
He is expected to formalize his move from Sevilla in the next days by signing a 5-year contract, which will make him one of the top earners at Juve: only Buffon, Del Piero, Trezeguet, Amauri and Nedved manage to surpass his wages.
Evidently, this star treatment for a player who has always been considered a midfield hard man, but not a maestro, does not sit well with hardcore Juve fans, who made it abundantly clear yesterday at their pre-season training camp in Pinzolo, by displaying an unequivocal banner that branded him "rubbish".
Two summers ago Milan were also rumored to be very keen in bringing to Lombardy the Danish international, but allegedly some of the locker room veterans vetoed the transfer, on the grounds of his bad temper.
But all this stories do not seem to faze Poulsen: " I know that playing in Italy will not be easy for me at the beginning, especially in Milan and Rome. I also know that my reputation as a trouble-maker precedes me, but I am one that always gives 100 per cent."
"I am not worried and I know I will have to win over fans, but I'm a proud man who does his talking on the pitch. I'm very happy to be at Juve, because it's a wonderful club, play the Champions League and it's one of the best known sides in Denmark".
One to endorse his switch to Italian football is Sevilla' s goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis who told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "He's a great professional, who always gives his all and knows how to play different roles, he even played at centre-back last season!
"He's not merely an ankle-biting hard-man, he also has good feet, in spite of what people say. He has what it takes to wear the Bianconeri shirt."