‘Juventus won’t spend big’

Beppe Marotta has told Juventus fans to forget about any major signings before the end of this month.

The Old Lady have been strongly linked with a possible bid for Shanghai Shenhua ace Didier Drogba, but the director general seems to have ruled out that option.

“The transfer window will close without any major signings,” he told Sky Sport Italia. “The January market is not offering important names for Juventus.

“We are looking around, evaluating, but in the meantime we want to recover those players who are absent with injury or participating at the African Cup of Nations.

“We’re missing important elements like Claudio Marchisio, Giorgio Chiellini, Kwadwo Asamoah and Simone Pepe, while Mirko Vucinic is not playing continuously because of fitness issues.”

Juventus were hot favourites to retain their Scudetto, but a run of just one point from the last two games has seen their lead at the top of the table cut to just three points.

“January is perhaps a month where we don’t collect as many points as at other times of the year,” he said after the 1-1 draw at Parma.

“If we compare it to last year, after the win at Lecce we won three and drew four in a row.

“We’re calm, let’s distance the pessimism, we’re realists. The Championship can be likened to the tour of Italy, not Milano-Sanremo.

“We are targeting the finishing line. Juventus are always obliged to win.”

The biggest move we will possibly see is Llorente and that's it. We may try to bring back a loaned out young player, but I don't think that will be successful because many of those teams are fighting to stay in Serie A and really need those players. A player like Lopez won't be available for the price we want or the type of transfer we want (a loan). People better mentally prepare for Peluso being the only transfer this month. .

I think we will be ok once we got our injured players back and don't forget Pepe would scores a good few goals! We defo need to bring in immobile or gabbiadini though!

inderbaby wrote:I think we will be ok once we got our injured players back and don't forget Pepe would scores a good few goals! We defo need to bring in immobile or gabbiadini though!

I agree. Something has to change with our attack. Even if we set aside the fact that our forwards have trouble scoring consistenting, we are one injury away from being in major trouble up front. We shouldn't permanently sign an aging player like Lopez, unless he comes really cheap. We either need a loaned player to return or the Llorente deal needs to be completed quickly.

Another disgrace. We need a new forward and the longer we wait, the longer we suffer.

juveman17 wrote:Another disgrace. We need a new forward and the longer we wait, the longer we suffer.

I support us to postpone it until the summer because now there are only average strikers out there I don't want another Bendtner case just to get striker just because he is striker. In the summer they sell quality so why not ?

juveman17 wrote:Another disgrace. We need a new forward and the longer we wait, the longer we suffer.

The January market is a fool's market to try and buy a big name player. You will over pay and the quality usually isn't that great. There are a few exceptions, like Dzeko, but players like that rarely move in January. January is the time to add depth players that are average to above average. For example, players like Matri and Peluso.