Juventus, it is now no mystery, is looking for a new striker to partner with Vlahovic in the next January market. One of the various ideas that Juventus transfer man Giuntoli is examining leads to France and an old acquaintance of the current coach Thiago Motta.
The reference goes to Arnaud Kalimuendoa darting French striker born in 2002 who is now at Rennes but grew up in the Paris Saint-Germain academy, where he was able to get to know Motta himself closely. It was the 2018/19 season and the PSG Under 19 coach brought in this very young striker, who was quite under age considering he had turned 17 just a month ago. Only one appearance, as a starter in the Youth League defeat against Hertha Berlin, but the feeling of having discovered something really interesting. For the rest of the season, before Motta’s farewell, he was no longer called into question but the first stone had been laid.
And Kalimuendo’s subsequent career development would have confirmed Motta’s good vision of young talents. The center forward born in 2002, an atypical profile for a first striker, has proven to be a fairly high level player in Ligue 1 and capable of scoring almost fifty goals in the last 4 years in the top flight beyond the Alps. Abilities also confirmed by the good start this year, in which he scored 3 goals in 6 appearances for the Stade de Rennais, for an average of a goal scored every 134 minutes. Numbers that certainly caught the attention of Juventus, desperately looking for an alternative to Vlahovic in attack. And this could be a profile well known to Mister Motta.