From around mid-February onwards, we started to see some rumours about Juventus being interested in Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus.
The Brazilian has been a hit for the Etihad based club ever since he arrived from Palmeiras in a £28.8m deal, scoring 63 goals in 139 appearances in all competitions, as well as assisting another 25.
This level of output and consistency hasn’t gone unnoticed, and Tuttosport started pushing that Juventus were keen on signing him this summer.
Maurizio Sarri is apparently ‘in love’ with him, and it seems that desire to see the 22-year-old in Turin is shared by the club’s chief football office, Fabio Paratici.
Gazzetta dello Sport look at the Serie A leaders’ plans for the summer, which will include bringing in a striker if they can somehow get rid of Gonzalo Higuain.
Should they manage to sell the Argentine, then it’s stated the man Paratici is ‘mad for’ is Gabriel Jesus, although they do make it clear he is currently an ‘untouchable’ at Manchester City.
However, with the prospect of the Premier League club missing out on Champions League because of UEFA’s decision to ban them from European competitions for the next two years.
That has since been appealed by City, but with all proceedings currently on hold due to the Covid-19 outbreak, things are uncertain at this moment in time.
It still seems like a long shot, as Gabriel Jesus seems like the ideal successor for Sergio Agüero in the long run, and it would cost Juventus a lot of money to convince them to veer off that route.
