The month-long hunt for Juventus to bring in some help on the wings and provide the chance for Kenan Yildiz to get a bit of a breather from time to time has officially come to an end on the first day of February.
Juventus announced just prior to Sunday night’s game against Parma that they have signed Nice winger Jérémie Boga on loan for the second half of the 2025-26 season with an option to buy in the summer. To make Boga’s move to Turin permanent, Juventus’ option to buy has a cost of €4.8 million — a relatively small fee for a player who burst onto the scene in Serie A with Sassuolo before a disappointing move to Atalanta wasn’t able to replicate the same kind of production. Boga has since played with Nice for the past season and a half, only to now return to Serie A and provide Juventus with one of their desired areas of need during the winter transfer window.
Boga will begin training with his new Juventus teammates come the beginning of the new work week and will almost certainly be available for Thursday night’s Coppa Italia tie against Atalanta in Bergamo.
Here are the official details of the deal, courtesy of Juventus’ press office:
Turin, 1 February 2026 – Juventus Football Club S.p.A. announces that an agreement with OGC Nice has been reached for the temporary acquisition, on a free loan basis, until 30 June 2026, of the registration rights of the player Jérémie Boga.
The agreement further entails the right for Juventus to definitively acquire the player’s registration rights. The agreed consideration for the potential definitive acquisition is € 4.8 million, payable in two financial years.
Boga’s playing time has been limited this season — and especially so after the incident with Nice supporters at the end of a Nov. 30 game against Lorient. Following the incident that saw a pair of Nice ultras make their way onto the team bus and saw Boga and teammate Terem Moffi “both punched, spat at, kicked and insulted,” according to a report from ESPN, the players were granted a leave of absence by the club. It was that Nov. 30 loss to Lorient in which Boga made his last appearance for Nice prior to his move to Juventus.
Boga was not part of the Ivory Coast squad at the recently completed Africa Cup of Nations.
Now back in Serie A, Boga will be the primary backup for Juve’s talented No. 10 — a transfer target the club had been trying all January to try and fill. Yildiz has been one of Juventus’ leaders in minutes played for the vast majority of the season, with only Pierre Kalulu — who has played every minute of every game — playing more full 90s than the talented Turkish attacker. Boga should provide Spalletti the chance to rest Yildiz a little bit as we approach the final months of the season, something that will prove key with how compact the schedule is between now and the March international break.
In his 14 appearances for Nice this season in Ligue 1, Boga had two goals and recorded two assists.
