Understandably, it’s been a little while since we’ve much of anything about Igor Tudor following Juventus parting ways with the Croatian manager back in late October. It is usually that way — and especially so when you are dismissed early in a season in a league in which managers can’t just jump right back in the game due to league rules.
But Tudor took a step to get back in the game outside of Italy.
According to Sky Sport Italia’s Gianluca Di Marzio and other reports in Italy on Thursday, Juventus
have terminated Tudor’s contract, which will allow him to sign for a job if he is to receive a potential offer from anywhere else in Europe. That seems to be the potential play here since, according to Italian transfer reporter Nicolo Schira, Tudor has already received several approaches from foreign clubs about potentially coaching them in the near future.
This is a step that the man Tudor replaced, Thiago Motta, still hasn’t done, as he continues to weigh on Juve’s payroll through the summer of 2027 after being sacked all of 10 months into his spell as manager in Turin.
Tudor, like Motta, had a contract that previously ran through 2027, one he signed prior to Juventus’ participation in the Club World Cup last summer amid talk that the Bianconeri had previously tried to sign the likes of Antonio Conte and Gian Piero Gasperini
While there is no word on how much it may have cost Tudor to agree to a termination of his contract, you have to believe that it’s a decent chunk of money so that both the club wouldn’t have to pay him as much as the contract would have mandated and that he can potentially take a job in the very near future. We don’t know exactly where that next job for Tudor may be, but it’s clearly something he thought strongly enough about to want to be able to be free of his Juventus contract now rather than wait a little while longer.
However, Tuttosport has reported that Juventus will save €5.5 million per season with this early termination.
Considering the fact that Tudor’s contract ran through 2027, that is not an insignificant amount of money saved if it is indeed that amount of cash. And for a club like Juventus who are still very much strapped for cash on top of the fact they’re still paying Motta while they currently employ Luciano Spalletti, any savings is a important thing to remember in all of this.
So this will be viewed as one last gesture from a Juventino to help out the club a little bit. And, at the same time, Tudor gets the chance to get back to work faster than he might have if he waited until the summertime (or even longer than that).
