The goalkeeper had returned to Turin in the summer of 2019 after two years in the PSG. He is not sure he will abandon football: “I will evaluate any upcoming offers”
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The eternal boy really closes the door. At least the black and white one. He leaves Juventus after 638 games, 61,232 minutes and 21 trophies, numbers that he will be able to implement in this last part of the season. Gigi Buffon has won everything, except the Champions League, an obsession, including a Serie B championship that he considers a medal.
He agreed to relegate as world champion, to bring the team back up after the Calciopoli storm, he did it after hard years opening a historical cycle, he left to immerse himself in the PSG experience, he returned to help when, chosen Maurizio Sarri, besides a great goalkeeper, there was a need for a keeper of “Juventus”. It is good to remember, now that there is the announcement of the final separation but not the certainty of the farewell to football, because a superficial reading can make one think of an insatiable person who at 43 is not content with being in the shade.
It is not so, it is the opposite. Gigi gave a lesson in humility and team spirit, he said no to the number one jersey and to the captain’s armband that Szczesny and Chiellini wanted to return to him, he knew how to be precious as a reserve, he has always been used to the limelight and intact in his enthusiasm and reflexes, a very reliable goalkeeper and not a monument to himself, a champion caged by the new assignment and not imbolsito talent unable to stop. He could only do it at Juve, but now that the chapter is closed everything changes: because the alternative to retirement is an intriguing offer, possible precisely in the light of the most recent performances.
“My future is clear and outlined – he told Bein Sports, confirming rampant rumors and friendly confidences -. This year this beautiful and very long experience with Juve will end in a definitive way. Either I stop playing or if I find a situation that stimulates me to play or have a different life experience, I take it into consideration. I think I gave everything for Juve. I have received everything and more than this cannot be done. We have reached the end of a cycle and it is right for one to remove the disturbance ».
Do not deceive the last word, there is no drop of controversy, it is a metaphor to make it clear that the mission is accomplished, that he is no longer needed, that the captivity accepted for the good of Juve is not right. And now away with the hypotheses about the future: in Italy, excluding big clubs for Juventus loyalty, Parma was the first cradle and the Genoa for which he supported suggestions: the only track that could be traveled, not easy, was Atalanta who had looked for him in the autumn and who could rely on his experience to relive the European adventure. Obviously, the US and the Emirates wink, but European football is also interested: in France they invite you to keep an eye on Monaco, in Turkey it is Galatasaray to evaluate the idea.
And Juve? The rumors about Donnarumma are weakening in the face of budget problems, and in any case it would be another story, linked to that of Szczesny. The more concrete profiles lead to Perin, owned by Juve on loan to Genoa, who however would like to make the first to try to return to the blue round, to Emil Audero, today at Sampdoria but with the right of pre-emption, or to Musso from Udinese. –