Juve, bench without peace. The objective changes, the idea now is Pioli. Elkann calls a summit

Two noes in two days: first Conte's refusal, who preferred Naples, then Gasperini's, who finally said yes to Roma. A resounding setback for Juventus, a slap in the face that the Bianconeri club is not used to receiving. Now the club is trying to start over, even if it's not easy. And it continues to evaluate possible successors to Tudor, who should stay until the Club World Cup in mid-June-July. So on the radar of the new DG Damien Comolli, already operational while waiting for the official announcement, and Giorgio Chiellini, an idea that had already been toyed with in recent months in Bianconeri circles is back in fashion, before the corporate shake-up launched by John Elkann with the end of the Cristiano Giuntoli era. The Lady is thinking again of Stefano Pioli, currently in Saudi Arabia at Al-Nassr and also in the sights of Atalanta for the post Gasp. There has already been some indirect contact and in the next few days Comolli will decide whether to change gear for the coach of Milan's last championship or whether to take other paths.

Pioli is appreciated for various reasons at Continassa: he has already worked and won with a fairly young team (the 2022 Scudetto with Milan), he is practical, modern and knows Juventus, having lived there as a player in the years spent alongside Michel Platini and the other champions of the time. All qualities that strengthen the candidacy of the Emilian coach, who obviously wouldn't mind coaching a team in which he played. The next few days, Atalanta and competition permitting, will be decisive in one direction or another. In the Juventus list, net of new foreign entries (Marco Silva of Fulham was also sounded out in the last few hours), Roberto Mancini is holding out, having already been approached at the end of March to replace Thiago Motta in the running. In the meantime, Comolli starts with Tudor, who he crossed paths with as a rival during the Croatian's season at the helm of Marseille (2022-23): from Monday, with the resumption of training at Continassa in view of the Club World Cup, he will see him work on the pitch and will have the opportunity to get to know him better.

The Juventus top brass, currently meeting in Munich, will certainly be talking about the coach (above all) and strategies. Yes, put John Elkann, Damien Comolli and Giorgio Chiellini together at the Champions League final. The new Lady is taking shape in Germany. On the table are the choice of coach, the market and the reorganization of the sports area. With the Cristiano Giuntoli era over, who is defining the economic contours of his divorce from the Lady, Elkann has inaugurated another one together with Chiellini, who will have an increasingly strategic role, and Comolli, waiting for the official Bianconeri announcement but already operational after his resignation as president of Toulouse. The nephew of the Lawyer Agnelli, dissatisfied with the last season despite the Champions qualification grabbed on the gong in Venice, has reset the management - also saying goodbye to Pompilio and Stefanelli, Giuntoli's operational arms - and entrusted the sports project to the new managers, the football reference points who will have to design the rebirth of Juventus together with Maurizio Scanavino, a man of accounts and trusted CEO of the ownership. It will therefore be up to Comolli and Chiellini to identify the men from which to start again.

The evaluations of the coaches - from Tudor to Pioli - are intertwined with those of the sporting director. Comolli will be the general director and will also be operational on the market, but he will not act alone in the negotiations: he will almost certainly be supported by a sporting director. Evaluations and surveys are underway. Among the foreigners, Diego Lopez (formerly Lens) is liked, while in Italy Ricky Massara is appreciated, who won the championship with Milan (Pioli) and is coming off the season in France with Rennes. The idea of ​​the Juventus leaders is to expand and refresh the sporting structure at all levels. For the role of vice ds/chief scout, Matteo Tognozzi is moving towards the return. The former Granada director is appreciated by the owners for the work done as chief observer of the youth teams with Fabio Paratici and of the first team with Federico Cherubini, starting with the precious contribution for the arrival of three talents of the calibre of Matias Soulé (now at Roma), Dean Hujisen (Real Madrid) and Kenan Yildiz, the number ten of the Old Lady.