Juventus very much want to have Randal Kolo Muani as a part of their roster for the 2025-26 season. That is something that doesn’t take a whole bunch of reporting at this stage of the game — it’s obvious, and it’s something we’ve known Juve have wanted to try and make happen for weeks, if not months now.
Paris Saint-Germain seem perfectly OK with Kolo Muani leaving the European champions’ roster this summer. But they’ve made one thing perfectly clear: it will come under their conditions, not those
that are set by another club that wants to try and bring Kolo Muani in this summer.
And thus, the standoff is basically underway.
At this rate, it’s probably not a surprise to see that Juventus want to sign Kolo Muani on loan with an option to buy — the kind of formula that doesn’t lock them completely in to a big financial commitment a year from now but also allows them to see if the talented Frenchman can recreate some of the same kind of success he had on loan last season. PSG, a team that isn’t struggling for money whatsoever, want Juventus to agree to a deal that will see Kolo Muani spend the upcoming season on loan but also stay in Turin beyond that thanks to an obligation to buy. It is that loan-plus-obligation formula that would have Juventus handing over around €40 million in total to PSG, according to Tuttosport this weekend.
#KoloMuani, la #Juve non si muove e il #Psg lo richiama: che succede ora https://t.co/ONCK6AuOmE
— Tuttosport (@tuttosport) July 18, 2025
And to quote the Turin-based publication: “This figure is beyond the reach of the Bianconeri.”
Like we said ... it’s a standoff.
Even with Jonathan David’s arrival earlier this month, it’s pretty obvious at this point that Juventus also want to retain Kolo Muani’s services for at least one more season. The thing is, though, there’s been absolutely no reporting that PSG will even be considering a deal be on the kind of terms that doesn’t guarantee them to post some sort of loss on Kolo Muani. The €40 million figure — €10 million for a loan fee and another €30 million in terms of a price to make it permanent — gets the Parisians as close as they could potentially get to that.
But again, that’s their terms. That’s not Juventus’ terms.
So if Juventus want to have Kolo Muani for a full season, it appears that new general manager Damien Comolli will either have to budge from his current terms or somehow get PSG to adjust theirs. Somebody will have to make the move and adjust what they want if they want to make a deal happen. And let’s not forget, Kolo Muani has very much made it known that staying at Juventus would be his preferred option this summer.
Kolo Muani, with his future up in the air, is set to report to Paris Saint-Germain training on Wednesday, July 23, and be part of a group that Tuttosport says has been dubbed as “the undesirables” — those who are likely to leave this summer because they’re out of Luis Enrique’s plans. Not exactly what you would expect for a player who cost PSG a whopping €90 million just two years ago, huh?
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