Jonathan David has understood. That is the central fact from which everything else in Tuesday morning’s Tuttosport flows. After a summer of resistance — declining Crystal Palace as beneath his ambitions, watching Aston Villa’s interest go nowhere, deflecting Paris FC as insufficient — the Canadian has finally come to terms with the reality that has been evident to everyone else since May: Juventus is over for him. The question is no longer whether he leaves, but whether the final hours of the window can produce a deal that works for all parties.
Atletico’s First Official Offer: Loan with €30 Million Option — but Juventus Resist the Wage Subsidy
Atletico Madrid made their first formal written offer to Juventus on Sunday evening, alongside late returns from Como and Borussia Dortmund. The Spanish club’s proposal: a loan with a right of purchase fixed at €30 million, and approximately half of David’s €6 million annual salary shared between the clubs. Juventus’s initial response was, as Tuttosport’s Cristiano Corbo describes it, “rather timid” — not because they don’t want to move David on, but because paying approximately €3 million to subsidise the wages of a player they won’t have for a full year and who must in any case be replaced is a financial structure they find difficult to accept.
Conversations continued through Sunday night. Resolution, one way or another, is expected before the 8pm deadline.
Spalletti Calls Woltemade Directly — the Manager Has Made His Preference Known
The most striking personal detail of the morning’s reporting is that Luciano Spalletti has made direct contact with Nick Woltemade — calling the German striker personally in the past 24 hours to make clear how much he wants him and how central he believes the Newcastle United forward could be to his attacking system. It is an unusual and telling step from a manager who typically leaves transfer communication to his directors: a direct call to the player signals the depth of Spalletti’s conviction.
Newcastle have indicated their openness to a loan arrangement, making Woltemade a genuinely accessible option in the window’s final hours. Zirkzee remains the primary target — his new formal offer of a loan with €30 million purchase option submitted on Sunday evening — but with Fiorentina also in the picture for the Dutch forward and the window closing in hours, Woltemade’s availability from a receptive club gives Juventus a credible and compelling alternative.
Sorloth: Still Possible — but Only Through David
The Norwegian remains a parallel possibility, but his route to Turin runs directly through the Atletico-David negotiation. Should the Spaniards land David, freeing both funds and a squad slot, Sorloth’s pre-agreed personal terms with Juventus become immediately activatable. Should the David deal collapse, Sorloth goes with it. The two are inextricably linked.
Milik: Contract Termination Back on the Table
In a further development that underlines the urgency of creating attacking space, talks have resumed over a consensual contract termination for Arkadiusz Milik — the Polish striker who has spent the majority of the past three years in various treatment rooms and whose minutes against Parma were his most meaningful of recent memory. Freeing his wages and squad slot would give Juventus additional room to manoeuvre in the striker market and accelerate the arrival of the physical, aerial centre-forward Spalletti has been requesting since the Frosinone opener. The negotiations are delicate but alive.
The Final Hours — and a Dream That Is Not Quite Impossible
Tuttosport closes the article with one further name that has been placed on the table in the chaos of the final morning: Serhou Guirassy of Borussia Dortmund. Almost impossible, almost certainly too expensive, and yet included — because, as Corbo writes, on deadline day the dreams do not shrink even when the time does. Juventus need a striker worthy of their ambitions. Before 8pm tonight, they will have their answer.
