Juventus lock in Champions League roster with surprising inclusion

After a season far from Europe and almost 2 from its premier competitors, Juventus are another turning point closer to their return.

Juve haven’t played a Champions League video game given that November 2, 2023, when they lost 2-1 to Paris Saint-Germain to liquidate a miserable group phase removal and demotion to the Europa League.

They go back to the competition in precisely 2 weeks, on September 17, with the very first match of the brand-new league stage versus PSV Eindhoven. Today was the due date for groups to reveal their Champions League teams for the league stage, and Juventus have actually appropriately sent theirs.

There aren’t a lot of surprises on the 22-man A-list, however the one that exists is rather a head-scratcher. Included in the list with the similarity Dusan Vlahovic, Douglas Luiz, and Danilo is one Arthur Melo.

Arthur, naturally, hasn’t bet Juve in 2 years after falling deeply out of favor with the group due to his substandard efficiencies. He had a good year on loan at Fiorentina in 2015, however his salaries made a long-term relocate to Florence difficult and Juve have actually been honestly searching for him a brand-new home for the season, a minimum of on loan if not completely. With most move windows closed with the exception of Turkyie, the choices for that are diminishing.

That makes his addition in the team rather the surprise. Long informed he wasn’t part of the task, the Brazilian is likewise dealing with an overwhelming appearance up the depth chart. Five midfielders have actually played up until now this season, making Arthur’s possibility of making the field rather slim certainly unless a significant injury crisis is come across.

It’s most likely that Arthur has actually simply been consisted of to get the list to the optimum as a just-in-case relocation. It came at the cost of Filip Kostic, another wantaway who is still at the club and apparently wishes to attempt to make his method back into Thiago Motta’s concepts.

Juve likewise signed up 6 gamers on the B list for young home-grown gamers, consisting of Kenan Yildiz, Samuel Mbangula, and Nicolò Savona, which provided that a lot more versatility in utilizing the A list, possibly offering the area to consist of Arthur in the very first location.

Juve’s complete Champions League list (consisting of team numbers) is as follows:

A List

Perin (1), Bremer (3), Gatti (4), Locatelli (5), Danilo (6), Conceiçāo (7), Koopmeiners (8), Vlahovic (9), Nico Gonzalez (11), Milik (14), Kalulu (15), McKennie (16), Adzic (17), Arthur (18), Thuram (19), Fagioli (21), Weah (22), Pinsoglio (23), Douglas Luiz (26), Cambiaso (27), Di Gregorio (29), Cabal (32)