Report: Kenan Yildiz wants to be Juventus’ highest-paid player as part of new contract

The Kenan Yildiz contract extension talks have taken a brand new flip.

It’s not essentially a foul one per se. Neither is it one which we ought to be notably shocked by contemplating his extraordinarily quick trajectory to impending stardom. Nevertheless it’s a growth nonetheless — and one which feels prefer it’s now on Juventus’ desk to try to determine their subsequent transfer.

In accordance with La Gazzetta dello Sport’s Giovanni Albanese on Wednesday, Yildiz has primarily set two main situations in the case of the contract through which his camp and the Juventus entrance workplace are presently discussing. The primary, as you would possibly anticipate, is that he needs a aggressive membership that shall be in competition for silverware in a comparatively fast style. The second, and arguably simply as vital, is that Yildiz — in addition to his agent Jorge Mendes — needs to be Juventus’ highest-paid participant when he does find yourself signing the brand new deal that we have now been repeatedly advised by Giorgio Chiellini will occur in due time.

Yildiz, who has signed contract extensions the earlier two season since being totally promoted to the Juve senior squad below Max Allegri initially of the 2023-24 marketing campaign, presently earns a wage round €1.7 million internet per season.

You may squabble about Yildiz’s camp asking for such a big wage — that’s comprehensible. The idea that it will be extra like what Jonathan David earns — about €6 million internet — than the extraordinary wage that Dusan Vlahovic presently pulls in through the closing 12 months of his contract this 12 months. That’s the great factor.

However as time goes on and Juventus are nonetheless ready to comply with a brand new deal, put up a grand press launch and have Yildiz snap some photographs whereas signing his large new contract, it’s simply drawing out the method of arguably crucial deal this membership has tried to shut with a participant already on their roster in at the very least a few years.

There is no such thing as a danger of Yildiz leaving on a free like Vlahovic, Federico Chiesa or Paulo Dybala, however it’s fairly clear that the Yildiz camp — specifically super-agent Mendes — needs the younger man that they characterize to be paid because the membership’s high participant ought to probably be performed. It’s reflective in simply how briskly Yildiz has developed right into a budding star that we’re sitting right here speaking a few third contract extension in as many seasons, with this one clearly holding extra of a monetary dedication than the earlier two. Is it too early to commit a wage upward of €6 million internet for a participant who doesn’t even flip 21 years outdated till July? Possibly. However, on the identical time, Yildiz is the form of expertise that you might want to maintain locked right into a contract through which he’s happy with for so long as potential.

As a result of the very last thing Juventus want is for any kind of temptation to play in one thing aside from bianconero and name a metropolis aside from Turin his residence.