After months and months of waiting, Juventus’ attempts to make Randal Kolo Muani more than a short-term player up front is close to reaching the outcome in which they’ve been seeking since the springtime.
No, really.
It’s looking like it’s for real this time.
According to reports out of Italy from the likes of Sky Italia’s Gianluca Di Marzio and others on Wednesday evening, the negotiations between Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain that have essentially stretched out to before the Club World Cup and a previous
front office are about to close in the way in which Juventus have wanted. That involves Kolo Muani coming back to Juve this summer, with an eventual loan deal made permanent through an obligation to buy next summer. As Fabrizio Romano notes, nothing is done yet, but the two clubs have basically agreed that the total price of the package to bring Kolo Muani back to Turin for a much more permanent move to Juventus will be worth €60 million.
Juventus will likely pay anywhere from €5 million to €10 million up front, with the remainder that will take the deal up to the final price of €60 million set to be the buy price come summer 2026.
Kolo Muani has reportedly for months had an agreement with Juve for a 1+4 contract that will eventually run through 2030 once his obligation to buy kicks in.
According to Di Marzio, Kolo Muani’s return to Juventus is now “closer than ever.” What that means in terms of when Kolo Muani will be back in Turin and posing for a picture alongside Damien Comolli, it’s hard to say. But there does, finally, seem to be a light appearing brighter and brighter at the end of the tunnel.
It’s not at the price that we first heard about even a couple of weeks ago when it looked like the total package would be worth closer to €50 million rather than this new figure of €60 million. The hope was that Kolo Muani’s unwillingness to go anywhere other than Juventus would end up paying off for the Bianconeri and the leverage they might have. Instead, PSG have held firm in their desire to not suffer a loss on their own Kolo Muani deal from a couple of years ago and gotten a price from Juventus that will prevent that from happening.
It will end up being a whole lot of money that Juventus will be spending on a striker.
Who knows what will happen with their other very high-priced striker come the end of the summer transfer window and if this will finally convince him he will have to leave if he wants consistent playing time. But at the very least the end is in sight for Kolo Muani coming back to Juventus — and that’s something that we’ve all been waiting for ever since the 2024-25 season came to a close in Venice back in May.
