Juventus will target the Scudetto above all else next season, insists patron John Elkann, and that means keeping Sebastian Giovinco.
“We will adopt a transfer strategy in line with the resources at our disposal, preparing the moves so that we can maintain results over a period of time,” said the new President of Ifil, the company owned by the Agnelli family.
“Next year we will fight for first place, because our objective is to always get into Europe from now on.”
It has already been a remarkable campaign for the side that spent last season in Serie B, as they have finished in the top three and qualified for the Champions League preliminary round.
Next term they aim to capture their first Scudetto since the Calciopoli scandal and the two titles stripped from the record books in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Among the transfer stories debated in the peninsula at the moment is the claim that Palermo want Giovinco in exchange for Amauri, which is why the move for the Brazilian has collapsed.
“We will do everything we can to keep Giovinco with us,” said Elkann.
“He is a great player and we need people of that level, because soon there will be the preliminary round. It’s going to be a tough summer and we’ll be fighting on many different fronts.”
Support striker Giovinco was the undoubted star of the title-winning Juventus youth team and spent this season on loan at Empoli.
