For the last couple of years, there’s been no question as to who was the highest-paid player at Juventus. No matter how you felt about him as a player, Dusan Vlahovic was the biggest beneficiary of a previous sporting director and his front office working a very large escalator into his contract that saw his salary rise to a Serie A-high €12 million net the last couple of years.
If Vlahovic is to stay at Juventus beyond the 2025-26 season, then it’s pretty safe to assume that said annual salary is going
to have to be noticeably lower than it currently is.
But … how much lower?
According to a Friday report from Italian transfer reporter Matteo Moretto on Fabrizio Romano’s YouTube page, Juventus are aiming to renew Vlahovic’s contract with a salary of around €6 million or €7 million net. Do the math and that’s about half of what Vlahovic currently makes, and something that reportedly has Juventus feeling optimistic about negotiations that have seemingly picked up plenty of steam over the last few days since the Bianconeri’s front office had a round of talks with his representatives.
Here is the clip of what Moretto reported on Friday …
From where things stood just a couple of months ago — let alone at the beginning of the 2025-26 season — to now that they’re actually weighing up a contract offer that his a sizable pay cut compared to what he’s made the last couple of years, that’s quite the development. It was only a couple of days ago when we heard from Sky Italia’s Gianluca Di Marzio that there had been a meeting between Juventus and the Vlahovic camp, and the big question coming out of it besides the obvious of what the chances of him re-signing with the Bianconeri might be is just what it might cost for him to stay in Turin beyond the upcoming summer.
If this does end up being what a potential salary is, that feels a lot more reasonable than what he’s been paid the last couple of years.
And maybe that is because a €12 million net figure is something few players who don’t call the Premier League home can rival in Europe’s top five leagues. A net salary of €6 million or €7 million would still have him in the upper echelon of player salaries at Juventus next season. As things stand now, Kenan Yildiz and Jonathan David would be the highest paid players at the club once Vlahovic’s current contract expires.
Now we see where this goes and if Juventus’ optimism about potentially getting a deal done with Vlahovic actually comes to fruition. At the very least, there’s a whole lot more talk about it potentially happening as compared to a few months ago — which has to tell you the Juve front office are certainly thinking of bringing Vlahovic back for next season and beyond.
