Nod if you’ve heard this one before: Juventus’ finances, even before the failure to qualify for the Champions League last month, aren’t exactly in the greatest of shape. And because of that, there are some Financial Fair Play rules that have to be met if Juve want to avoid any sort of serious sanctions from being handed down.
As we head into the final two days of June (and the 2025-26 fiscal year), new Juventus CEO Giovanni Carnevali is looking for one final influx of cash to get things right on the books
before month comes to an end.
That looks to be the sale of midfielder Fabio Miretti.
Why Miretti? Well, being a Juventus youth academy product, a sale over the next two days would be pure profit on the books. And for a club that reportedly needs around €13 million to make everything good on the books, Miretti looks to be the right kind of candidate for that, with Juventus valuing the 22-year-old Italian midfielder who first made his debut in 2021 around €15 million, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Gazzetta says that Bologna have offered €14 million for Miretti, but that doesn’t mean that the two clubs have come close to agreeing to a deal ahead of the self-mandated June 30 deadline to get a nice capital gain on the books before the end of the fiscal year.
There, of course, is a little more to things with Bologna than just talks of a potential Miretti sale over the next couple of days, though.
The line of thinking feels rather understandable: Bologna buy Miretti by the end of June, they get their FFP concerns out of the way for the fiscal year and then turn their attention toward another player, center back Jhon Lucumí, a player who is very much the interest of Juve manager Luciano Spalletti. Lucumí has a €28 million release clause that reportedly expires in the middle of July, with the turn of the new month being the Bianconeri’s potential chance to actually do some business on the transfer market — especially for a player who has had a pretty good showing at the World Cup thus far.
When it comes to Miretti, he is basically the only option the club currently has to get things right on the books. He is the sacrificial lamb to the FFP gods because of the simple fact that he’s going to be sold for a pure profit. There are, of course, other players that Carnevali would surely like to sell, but none of them would be able to be sold this quickly — if a deal with Bologna does happen in the next two days — or for the profit on the books that Miretti would provide.
And if a Miretti sale does happen, then it will signify the latest example of how Juventus has used the Next Gen setup as a financial boon for a club during their challenging financial times. Miretti’s time with the senior squad has not turned out to what many hoped it would be, and that (as well as the plusvalenza of it all) has made him an expendable asset that Juventus are willing to part with.
