More than a negotiation, this has been a pursuit. “Try and catch me,” and Juventus have been trying. More than that — they are now succeeding. Randal Kolo Muani is closer than ever to becoming a Juventus player once again, and according to Tuttosport, PSG have all but resigned themselves to letting him go on Juventus’s terms.
The Proposal That Has Changed Everything
There has been no dramatic breakthrough, no single decisive phone call that transformed the situation overnight. What has finally tipped the balance is a war of attrition — Carnevali and Massara applying relentless, patient, methodical pressure over weeks and months until PSG’s resistance crumbled. The latest and probably decisive offer now exceeds €40 million, structured with bonuses and a sell-on percentage for PSG built into the terms. It has been submitted formally, officially, and with the full confidence of a club that finally believes this is the deal that will hold.
PSG are resigned. They are not happy — the money falls short of their original ambitions — but they have accepted the reality that Kolo Muani is going nowhere from Paris. The French champions have already relegated him to training with the Under-19 squad, the unmistakable institutional signal that a player has no future at a club. His presence in that environment has become untenable by the day.
The Player Who Has Always Known Where He Wants to Go
No one doubts Kolo Muani’s position. In the final days, he has been in increasingly frequent contact with his former Juventus teammates — Kalulu and Thuram, his French-speaking friends, and the senior figures of the squad, above all Weston McKennie. The memory he left during his loan spell last season is vivid enough to cross administrations and managers — no one at the Continassa has ever questioned his quality or his desire to return. Spalletti first whispered his name to the previous administration back in January, asking why they weren’t trying harder. He has been consistent ever since.
Kolo Muani himself had already identified Monday as the day he wanted to be on a plane to Turin. That target may slip by a day or two as the final formalities are concluded — the incentive structures, the sell-on percentage, the precise bonus mechanisms — but the direction of travel is clear and, for the first time all summer, irreversible.
The Perfect Symmetry — Openda Out, Kolo Muani In
The timing of this breakthrough carries a particular symmetry. Openda — Comolli’s panicked Plan B substitute when this same Kolo Muani deal collapsed last summer — is set to leave for Lyon at the start of next week. One legacy of the previous administration departing precisely as the corrected version of the deal it failed to land finally arrives. The torch being passed, as Tuttosport puts it, from one era’s mistake to the current administration’s long-pursued solution.
For Spalletti, who faces the Standard Liège friendly tonight without either Ekhator or Milik, the arrival of Kolo Muani cannot come soon enough. The squad has a desperate numerical and qualitative need for a centre-forward. The summer has been the longest of chases. The finishing line, at last, is within reach.
A five-year contract at €5 million per year. Just over €40 million to PSG. One year, one long exhausting summer, and one unbending conviction that this was always the right deal — and that patience, in the end, is the most powerful weapon in the transfer market.
