During the interview given to today’s edition of Florentine Courierthe president of Fiorentina Rocco Commisso he commented on the exits of Chiesa and Vlahovic as well as that of Nico Gonzalez: “In football, are contracts made to be torn up? …as happened to us with Nico Gonzalez. I didn’t want to send him away but what can I do…We had extended his contract. Then this summer I went to visit him in New Jersey at the Argentine national team retreat: Quarta came to say hello. Nico stayed in his room. Maybe he was tired…
Did he want to go to Juve? This is life, what can be done… The problem is not tearing up contracts, but tearing them up and not losing anything. This is not good. Juventus sold Chiesa to Liverpool for 12 million. Who made the deal? The fans don’t understand that we are a company that must take into account the sporting and financial side. It was right to keep Chiesa the first year, right to sell him the second. It was also right to believe Vlahovic: if we hadn’t let them go they would have left for nothing. The 150 million that Juve earned for those three helped us build the team.
Vlahovic? He had another season left on his contract. The agent told us: either let him go or he’ll be out for a year and a half. We had no other choice. I tried to talk to him, but he firmly wanted to go to Juventus. Then he introduced himself saying ‘I have Juve DNA’…But explaining this to the fans is difficult. And in any case it seems to me that Vlahovic hasn’t done great things at Juventus yet”.