Prior to the start of the 2024-25 season, Juventus gave Kenan Yildiz a new contract and a new number, the clearest sign that the then-teenaged Turk was looked upon as a centerpiece of whatever good the club was going to do heading into the future. It was the second time he had signed a new deal in as many years, with a pattern beginning that plenty of us could support considering the trajectory that he was looking to be on.
While not following the same new-contract-every-12-months pattern that was
starting to develop, Juve has now finalized arguably their biggest contract extension in years.
Juventus have announced that they have signed the 20-year-old Yildiz to a brand new contract that will run through 2030. More importantly, it is a statement of intent for the club and the resources they are now dishing out to Yildiz, with the budding Turkish star set to see his annual salary triple from the €1.7 million net total that he reportedly received as part of the new long-term contract he signed in August of 2024 to now a reported figure of €6 million net with another €1 million in bonuses. Yildiz will also reportedly receive a €6 million loyalty bonus as part of the deal that will be billed as something that keeps away the Premier League giants and all of the massive money that everybody knows they have.
With his bump in salary, Yildiz is now one of the highest paid players at Juventus, trailing only Dusan Vlahovic and his Serie A-high €12 million net salary that will expire come this summer.
It’s probably easy to assume what Vlahovic’s status at Juventus is beyond this season. For Yildiz, though, we 100% know that his standing at the club that he has been at since joining from Bayern Munich in 2022 is as strong as it has ever been with him committing to the club with another long-term deal.
Yildiz won’t turn 21 years old until May. He is having the best season of his still-very young career. He’s already scored a career high total in goals in Serie A and has proven to rise to the moment in big games domestically and in the Champions League. He’s the budding star that everybody hoped he could be when he quickly soared through the Juve youth ranks in 2022 and 2023 before making his senior team debut with Max Allegri. (Albeit, as we all remember, we a very different kind of hairstyle than he has now.)
Since that debut, Yildiz has become the biggest piece to the Juventus puzzle not named Gleison Bremer. He was one of the best players on the team as a teenager, and now he’s only continuing that trajectory that has him amongs the best young players in the game today.
And he’s now a Juventus player through 2030, paid even more handsomely than he already was and has a manager that calls him an alien in the most complimentary way that you can. Things are looking pretty good for this Yildiz kid. Let’s see what he will be able to do next.
