With Sarr confirmed and Woltemade’s medical scheduled for today, Juventus are sprinting for one final signing before tonight’s 8pm deadline: Nicolás Tagliafico, the 34-year-old Argentine left-back who celebrated his birthday on Monday and who represents, in the words of Tuttosport’s Cristiano Corbo, the last cherry on an extraordinarily rich cake. The structure is agreed, the player is willing, Lyon are cooperative — but everything depends on Juan Cabal finding a permanent exit to Atalanta in the next few hours.
The Tagliafico Deal: Total Agreement — €3 Million Gross, Lyon Connection Helps
Full agreement has been reached between Juventus and Tagliafico on personal terms of approximately €3 million gross per season — a modest and entirely reasonable commitment for a player of his experience. The existing warm relationship between the two clubs, established through Lois Openda’s loan to Lyon earlier in the window, has facilitated swift and uncomplicated negotiations on the club-to-club level. Lyon will receive a compensation payment. The deal is ready. The only missing piece is Cabal’s departure.
Why Tagliafico specifically? Spalletti’s request was explicit: not a wide, attacking full-back in the Cambiaso mould, but a defender-first left-back capable of providing genuine defensive solidity — one who covers the space that Juventus have too often left exposed on the left flank, particularly when Cambiaso’s forward runs leave the back line short. Tagliafico, a World Cup winner who has played at the highest level throughout a long and distinguished career, embodies precisely that profile. He will not be a guaranteed starter. He will be a composed, experienced, and tactically intelligent rotation option whose presence gives Spalletti something Cambiaso alone cannot provide.
Why Cabal Must Go — and Why Spalletti Lost Faith After Galatasaray
The article provides the clearest and most authoritative account yet of why Juan Cabal’s Juventus career is definitively over. The moment that ended it is identified with precision: the Champions League match against Galatasaray last season, in which the Colombian received two yellow cards in the space of four minutes — reducing Juventus to ten men in a match they could ill afford to lose. From that moment, Spalletti’s confidence in him collapsed entirely and has never recovered.
Cabal himself initially resisted the idea of departure, hoping to force a change of opinion through pre-season performances. The arrival of Çelik, the versatility of Kelly and Lucumí, and the confirmation of Cambiaso made that ambition unrealistic. He has come to understand this — and in the window’s final days has shifted from resistance to acceptance, with Atalanta the destination that appeals most. Sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli, who originally signed Cabal for Juventus under the previous administration, is a known admirer — and a competitive spot at Bergamo alongside Kolasinac and Bernasconi represents the fresh start the player needs.
The key sticking point: Atalanta want a loan; Juventus insist on a permanent sale. Conversations continued overnight and are expected to reach their conclusion this morning. Both sides have until 8pm.
The Remaining Outgoing Files — At Least Five Players Still in the Window
Beyond Cabal and Tagliafico, Corbo maps the full picture of players whose situations remain live as the final day begins. Zhegrova heads the list — Saudi Arabian interest persists, with the Saudi window remaining open until 12 October, providing a route that the European deadline cannot close. Koopmeiners has Galatasaray watching from Turkey, whose own window closes on Friday — adding a few days of grace beyond the Italian deadline. Milik’s contract termination remains an intention rather than a completed fact, with strong motivation on the club’s side but no fixed timeline. Gatti and Rugani both have domestic and foreign interest — the article confirming that one of the two centre-backs could yet leave before 8pm should a sufficiently attractive offer materialise in the final hours.
The window closes tonight. The last cherry waits for Cabal’s buyer to confirm. The summer that has defined a new era at the Allianz Stadium is not quite, entirely, over yet.
