“?Juventus are set to splash the cash in January with rumours circulating they will look to sign James Rodriguez and Axel Witsel from Real Madrid and Zenit St Petersburg respectively.
The Serie A champions are lining up a move for Real outcast Rodriguez and could be poised to bring in Witsel during the January transfer window as they look to spend the £89m from the sale of Paul Pogba to Manchester United.
“?Corriere Dello Sport claims that Juventus are monitoring Rodriguez’s situation at the Bernabeu after the Colombia international has become increasingly frustrated over a lack of game time under Los Blancos’ current manager Zinedine Zidane.
Axel Witsel reveals he’s joining Juventus while Italian giants target James Rodriguez https://t.co/z5ErjDGcGH pic.twitter.com/kXoWgDIAqH
The 25-year-old has featured on just 10 occasions for Real so far this term, with only five of those appearances coming in La Liga.
The £71m 2014 summer signing would be seen as something of a coup for Juventus, and the Italian club’s CEO Giuseppe Marotta could be set to sanction an offer for the playmaker as early as January in a bid to strengthen Massimiliano Allegri’s first-team squad.
Meanwhile, Belgium international Witsel has claimed that Juventus could sign him at some point in the near future, if comments he made to Belgian radio station “?RTBF are anything to go by.
The defensive midfielder was linked with a move to Turin during the summer amid a three-month long saga that saw the 27-year-old also rumoured to be heading to the Premier League with Everton or Chelsea.
Witsel, who has made it known that he wishes to leave the Russian club at the next available opportunity, stated that he was flattered to be linked with a club of the stature of Juventus, and added that he would like to join them as soon as possible.
He said: “It’s always nice to hear that a club like Juventus are not giving up on me.
“Right now I’m not asking whether it’ll be in January or June, I’m just playing my matches and we’ll see what happens for me. But I’ll join Juventus? That will be the case. Right now I don’t know when.”
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