The goalkeeper situation at Juventus has become openly acrimonious. In a stunning public intervention, Carlo Alberto Belloni — the agent who represents Michele Di Gregorio — has launched a fierce and unambiguous attack on the club’s management, accusing Juventus of using his client as a scapegoat for failures that originated far beyond the goalkeeping position.
The Statement That Has Shaken Italian Football
Taking to social media in an explosive post, Belloni did not hold back. His central accusation is one of injustice: that Juventus spent in excess of €130 million on three strikers — Vlahović, David, and Openda — who collectively delivered a season the agent describes as “impresentable,” and that having overseen that catastrophic investment, the club has chosen to lay the blame for its failures on the goalkeeper.
“We demand respect,” Belloni wrote — three words that cut to the heart of his fury. In his view, Di Gregorio arrived at Juventus in good faith, performed his role with professionalism, and is now being pushed out of the door not because of any specific failure of his own but because the club needs to be seen to be acting decisively after a disastrous season — and a goalkeeper change is the most visible, least painful way of signalling that change.
The Context Behind the Anger
Di Gregorio’s situation has been uncomfortable for some time. Since Luciano Spalletti made clear his dissatisfaction with the options available to him between the posts, the goalkeeper has found himself in limbo — officially part of the squad but widely understood to be surplus to requirements as the club pursues alternatives including Dibu Martínez, Guglielmo Vicario, Mile Svilar, Marco Carnesecchi, and David De Gea.
For an agent watching his client’s market value potentially erode with every passing week of uncertainty, Belloni’s frustration is understandable. The longer Di Gregorio remains in a state of public limbo, the more difficult it becomes to find him a destination that reflects his genuine quality — a goalkeeper who, it should not be forgotten, was bought from Monza for a significant fee and performed capably in a squad that collectively underperformed.
Carnevali’s Unenviable Task
For Giovanni Carnevali, Belloni’s broadside arrives at an unhelpful moment. With the goalkeeper search ongoing and multiple options still in active consideration, the last thing the new chief executive needs is a public confrontation with an agent whose client remains on the payroll and contracted to the club.
Whether Carnevali responds formally or allows the matter to settle without comment, one thing is clear: the Di Gregorio situation needs a resolution — for the player’s sake, for the agent’s blood pressure, and for the orderly management of a goalkeeping rebuild that has been anything but orderly since the day the decision was made to pursue a replacement for a goalkeeper who never truly had a fair chance to prove himself the wrong man for the job.
