Report: Luciano Spalletti could sign Juventus contract extension ahead of this weekend’s Atalanta clash

We appear to very a lot be coming into the #SpallettiWatch portion of the contract extension announcement for Juventus and their veteran Tuscan supervisor.

In keeping with La Gazzetta dello Sport, issues are just about all wrapped up with regards to contract phrases between Juve and Luciano Spalletti with regards to his contract extension that he’s anticipated to signal. That “anticipated” has at all times felt like a certainty at the same time as contract talks have gone on, and now the sensation is that Juventus may very effectively announce Spalletti’s new deal that can run by means of 2028 earlier than Saturday evening’s showdown with Atalanta in Bergamo.

Spalletti is predicted to earn upward of €6 million per season, making him one of many highest-paid managers in Serie A alongside all people’s favourite serial winner Antonio Conte of Napoli, AC Milan’s Max Allegri and Gian Piero Gasperini at Roma.

For all we all know, it could possibly be one other week or two earlier than Spalletti’s deal is introduced. When Juventus sporting director Marco Ottolini spoke to Sky Italia forward of Monday’s win over Genoa, he didn’t precisely make it sound like an announcement was iminent, solely saying: “With the coach, as he himself mentioned, there isn’t any rush. We’re focused on these last video games, however talks are at a complicated stage.”

It looks like issues have been at a complicated stage for fairly a while. Spalletti is clearly in no rush to get his contract extension signed, as a substitute actually making an attempt to maintain the give attention to the job he’s doing within the current day relatively than shift issues to the longer term for much more than a day or so. And irrespective of who has talked from the Juventus entrance workplace, the massaging has at all times been that Spalletti is the person they wish to lead this membership into subsequent season and that they’re assured issues will get achieved in due time.

There’s no cause to doubt them at this level that one thing will get achieved as a result of they’ve by no means strayed away from the truth that they need Spalletti to be their supervisor past what his present contract says. It doesn’t matter if it’s been Damien Comolli, Giorgio Chiellini or Ottolini, Juventus’ message has been clear — they need Spalletti as Juventus’ supervisor subsequent season, there may be mutual curiosity in that occuring and {that a} deal goes to be achieved in due time.

Simply when that point really finally ends up leading to Spalletti sitting alongside Comolli and signing his contract nonetheless stays to be seen. It could be this week, it could be later this month. Who is aware of, proper? However Juve need Spalletti to stay round and that isn’t going to all of the sudden change.