If Luciano Spalletti was hoping to have some sort of depth on the left side of defense in the final two months of the 2025-26 season, it doesn’t look like that is going to actually be the case.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday, Juventus fullback Juan Cabal will miss the Bianconeri’s final six games of the season after picking up an adductor injury in training late last week ahead of Saturday night’s trip to Bergamo to face Atalanta. It could very well be the final chapter of a two-year
stint in Turin in which Cabal has been more unavailable than he actually has, with last season’s ACL injury while on international duty with Colombia highlighting his time with Juventus after signing from Hellas Verona.
It’s the fourth different injury absence for Cabal this season. He finished up his recovery from ACL surgery and marked his return in early October, only to injure his hamstring in that same game against Villarreal. He has also dealt with muscle fatigue in the final two weeks of 2025.
In total, Cabal has appeared in just 12 Serie A games and 19 in all competitions. He has played a total of 523 minutes and started five games — which turns out to be a fewer number of minutes than the 617 he played a year ago even though he suffered his season-ending ACL injury in early November.
Cabal’s last appearance was in Juventus’ 5-2 loss to Galatasaray in the first leg of the Champions League play-off round. In that game, Cabal was shown a pair of yellow cards and sent off within 20 minutes of coming on for Andrea Cambiaso — who himself had picked up a first-half yellow — to begin the second half. What happened after that red card to Cabal is something we won’t discuss again mainly because it didn’t involve anything good.
But if that’s the final time Cabal appears in a Juventus jersey, then it’s pretty safe to say that’s the moment in which Spalletti lost any remaining faith in the 25-year-old Colombian, who signed for Juventus two summers ago for an initial fee of €11 million from Hellas Verona. He has three years remaining on his contract.
For Juventus to not take a loss on that deal, they will have to sell Cabal for around €8 million this summer.
Cabal has reportedly drawn interest from clubs in the Premier League as he has seen his playing time under Spalletti take a serious downturn as the season has gone on.
