Giovanni Carnevali wants to build a younger and above all more Italian Juventus. This is the CEO’s stated and publicly reiterated mantra — and it explains, inevitably, why the club’s attention has landed in recent weeks on Antonio Raimondo. Seven goals in the first seven Serie A appearances. Braces against Fiorentina and Venezia, and a hat-trick against Sassuolo. An atomic impact on the top flight from a 22-year-old born in Ravenna who was Italy Under-21’s most exciting forward prospect before this season and is now positioning himself as a genuine senior international.
The Scout at the Stadio Stirpe — Three Birds, One Friday Evening
The operational confirmation that Juventus’s interest has moved beyond scouting reports and into live observation: Tuttosport’s Nicolò Schira reports that a bianconero scout was present at Frosinone’s Stadio Stirpe on Friday evening. The scout had three specific assignments that night: Vasilije Adžić — the Juventus-owned midfielder currently on loan at Frosinone who scored the 94th-minute winner against Juventus in September and did not celebrate; Luca Palmisani — the Frosinone goalkeeper born in 2004 who has been on Juventus’s January radar since the summer with the Gatti formula already discussed; and Raimondo himself. The striker responded “in the best possible way” — the hat-trick against Sassuolo. The ideal manner to sharpen a big club’s appetite.
The Price — Bologna Want €25m. Contract to 2028
Raimondo is Bologna’s player on loan at Frosinone. His contract with Bologna runs to June 2028, and the club’s asking price is confirmed by Tuttosport at €25 million. The structure of a January operation would follow the Gatti template precisely: Juventus purchase the registration from Bologna in January, and Raimondo continues at Frosinone on loan until the end of the season. The player remains in an environment where he is thriving, the deal is done before the English clubs — who are actively watching — can accelerate, and Juventus secure the asset at a figure that will only rise if they wait for the summer.
The Frosinone Obstacle — Convincing the Club to Release Their Striker Mid-Season
The specific challenge La Gazzetta dello Sport identified last week — Frosinone’s resistance to releasing their leading scorer in January — is named directly by Tuttosport as the operational complication that makes this a “pazza idea” (crazy idea) in the short term. Frosinone are a promotion-chasing club. Raimondo is their top scorer. The Gatti template requires their cooperation: they must agree that the player returns on loan, and the terms of that loan return must be attractive enough to compensate for the disruption. Frosinone’s relationship with Juventus is warm — the Gatti operation, the Palmisani interest — but asking them to give up their striker in January in exchange for a loan-back arrangement is a significant request.
Mancini About to Call Him Up for the Nations League
The additional context that elevates the urgency: Roberto Mancini is ready to include Raimondo in the Italy senior squad for the November Nations League double-header against Belgium and France. A first senior call-up, at 22, for a player already scoring at the rate of one goal per game in Serie A. The profile rises with each week. The premium on moving quickly — before the summer, before the England market comes fully to bear — rises in parallel.
