After Aaron Ramsey completed a move to Rangers FC from Juventus yesterday, it was inevitable the knives would be out in Italy.
The new Ibrox arrival’s move to the Italian club from Arsenal can now comfortably be labelled as a disaster, with injuries meaning the club never saw the best of him.
That’s naturally left a lot of ill-feeling with the Serie A club, particularly given the money involved and Gazzetta Dello Sport cover that today.
They explain that despite arriving from Arsenal on a free transfer in the 2019, the deal was not really free for Juventus.
That’s because he signed a €7m a year deal until 2023, earning more from his contract as part of a strategy from Juventus to lure free signings.
However, unlike those deals, it is ‘difficult to sustain’ that in the deal for Ramsey, the ‘benefits have been greater than the costs’.
That’s because Ramsey’s deal actually went above €8m with bonuses and so means the investment has been €26.4m so far for Juventus.
That’s a huge figure given the amount of playing time they’ve gotten out of him, and Gazzetta have run the numbers, equating it to €8,800 gross per minute.
Those are huge figures, to say the least, and certainly demonstrate why Juventus were keen to sanction a deal to Rangers on deadline day.
On that, Juventus’ hopes are that in June, the Ibrox side can help turn a ‘see you into a goodbye’ so they can get rid of Ramsey’s salary a year early.
For that to happen, he’ll have to convince Rangers and Van Bronckhorst with performances that make the reported purchase option of €6m to turn the loan into a permanent move seem a bargain.
