After an unfortunately time injury right on the cusp of the start of the 2025-26 campaign, young Juventus midfielder Fabio Miretti is back in action after making his season debut in last week’s draw with Sporting CP in the Champions League. It was a return to wearing Juventus colors that had to be delayed for a couple of months following a very strong preseason showing for then-manager Igor Tudor.
With Tudor or and Luciano Spalletti now in, Miretti still finds himself in a situation where playing
time appears to be a bit of an uphill battle considering the names that are ahead of him on the depth chart.
That doesn’t mean that Juventus are leaning toward another (half) season out on loan come the new year.
According to Italian transfer reporter Nico Schira on Tuesday, Juventus would like to keep ahold of Miretti during the upcoming January transfer window. That comes as Schira says that multiple Serie A clubs have asked for info on a potential Miretti loan deal, but up until now nothing has really come about it. That’s mainly because of Juventus’ desire to keep him around during the winter transfer window when other clubs in Serie A — especially those who are going to be in the bottom half of the table — are looking for some sort of upgrades to their rosters.
There’s also a key piece of information: New Juve CEO Damien Comolli has said that the club likely won’t be all that active in January as a result of potential Financial Fair Play worries, thus meaning the roster that Spalletti has at his disposal now is likely going to be the same one he has until the season finale in May.
The 22-year-old Miretti is back at Juventus following a season-long loan spell at Genoa that was viewed as a quite positive one. Miretti played in 26 games, starting 22 of them, and played nearly as many minutes as he did when he first broke into the Juventus squad two years earlier as a teenager under Max Allegri.
But now that he’s back at Juventus — and already on his second manager of the season who he has worked with for less than two weeks — he’s going to be competing for minutes a lot more than he did when Patrick Vieira was still manager at Genoa. That could be especially true as Spalletti continues to work out his tactical setup even as he tries to rotate his squad a bit knowing that the schedule is going to basically be non-stop from late-November to March with no other international breaks set to take place over the four-month period.
Would another loan spell benefit Miretti? Yeah, probably. But because Juventus both desperately need the depth in midfield and probably won’t be able to spend much of anything in January out of fear of angering the FFP gods at UEFA. Therefore, you can completely understand why Juventus don’t intend to send him out on loan for the second half of the 2025-26 season even if it could be the best thing for him just as last year proved.
