Agent: Boumsong Staying At Juve
The agent of error-prone Juventus defender Jean-Alain Boumsong has declared that his client will not be leaving the Stadio Olimpico.
The 28-year-old Frenchman, who was born in Cameroon, has not featured this season for the Bianconeri due to injury.
Despite playing 33 games in last year’s Serie B promotion campaign, the Italian media strongly suspect that Boumsong is no longer wanted by Juventus.
“The lad’s future is still in Turin,” Vincenzo Morabito told Tuttomercatoweb.it.
“He is happy in a Juve shirt and he and his family like life in Turin. It would be hard to leave and he would only do so for one of the world’s biggest sides.
“There was no concrete contact with Lazio. In the summer there was a tentative approach from Lyon, but nothing came of it.
“Recently there have been whispers that Real Madrid are interested in my client, but at the moment they are just whispers and nothing more.”
Boumsong joined Juventus last summer for just over £3m, following a nightmare 18 month spell at Newcastle United.
Having signed for the Magpies from Rangers in January 2006 for a whopping £8m, Boumsong made a string of high-profile errors and formed a calamitous central-defensive partnership with the equally accident-prone Titus Malachi Bramble.
Boumsong has won 22 caps for the France national team and was in Les Bleus squad for Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006.