After seven seasons and 295 games spent under the Parisian tunic, the 34-year-old Argentinian hopes to revive in a new championship.
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Finally. Angel Di Maria landed in Turin on Thursday evening, putting an end to long negotiations. Free party from Paris-Saint Germain after a complicated last season, “El Fideo” should sign a one-year contract at Juventus after having passed his medical examination on Friday morning. A nice blow for the Old Lady, who gets a top player for free.
Di Maria has arrived to undergo his medical tests ahead of his move to Juventus. pic.twitter.com/1FaBxQjXDg
— Max Aimé-Thierry (@maxaimethierry) July 8, 2022
After Blaise Matuidi in 2017 and Adrien Rabiot in 2019, a new Parisian midfielder is leaving Ile de France for Piedmont. Arrived in 2015 from Manchester United for 63 million euros, the silky South American will have scored 93 goals and delivered 119 assists with the capital club.
From Ligue 1 to Serie A, Di Maria can hope to weigh within the workforce of the Bianconeri. Always valuable for his technical qualities and the finesse of his game, he also benefited from the departures of Paulo Dybala and Federico Bernardeschi. The coach of the transalpine club Massimiliano Allegri, who heavily insisted on recruiting the Argentinian, had to deal with a lack of manpower on the wing last year. Often used in this position during his career, Di Maria is clearly a candidate for a starting position.
Even before entering the locker room, Di Maria already seems dubbed by the sacred transalpine cows. On June 20, his former teammate in Paris and icon of Juve, Gianluigi Buffon, did not hesitate to compare him to another Argentinian legend in an interview for La Gazzetta dello Sport. “Today Serie A has become extremely impoverished technically, that’s undeniable. In the current Serie A, therefore, he would be like Maradona” claimed the man in 931 games in the Italian league.