At this point last year, Dusan Vlahovic looked to be heading out the doors of Continassa by the end of the summer transfer window. Contract talks had stalled, and just a few months earlier he had seen his good pal Federico Chiesa leave the club with a year left on his contract because the front office didn’t want to see him leave on a free.
That’s all what we assumed would happen with Vlahovic, too — a situation all too similar with a player who the club has spent a whole lot of resources on during
plenty of changes (and not much for the better) over the span of his contract.
But Vlahovic has stayed. And that could very much be something we say about him more and more over the next few weeks and months, too.
According to Sky Italia’s Gianluca Di Marzio and La Gazzetta dello Sport over the last couple of days, Juventus’ front office and Vlahovic’s main representation — i.e. his father — are set to meet again to discuss a short-term contract extension that would mean the Bianconeri’s No. 9 wouldn’t be leaving this summer like so many have expected him to do. It would be a one- or two-year deal, according to La Gazzetta, and would likely see him take a significant pay cut from his current Serie A-high salary of €12 million net per season. The expected meeting between Juventus CEO Damien Comolli and Vlahovic’s father is expected to happen before Easter.
We had previously heard reporting that said that Juventus would like Vlahovic to agree to a salary that’s about half of what he currently makes, putting his net salary at around €6 million or €7 million over the course of the short-term deal the two sides are discussing.
The fact that Vlahovic’s father is heading to Turin is a pretty good indication that the tide is turning and that Vlahovic staying at Juventus beyond the 2025-26 season is very much a possibility now. How much Juve’s lack of consistent production from their other strikers during his absence played into it who really knows, but it’s impossible to avoid the simple fact that Luciano Spalletti has been wanting a striker with Vlahovic’s qualities more and more as his time as manager in Turin has gone on.
The solution to that for the 2026-27 campaign may well be in-house.
Vlahovic recently returned from an adductor injury that kept him out 112 days. He has 64 goals in 163 appearances in all competitions since his January-record signing from Fiorentina in 2022.
