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Feb 04
2009
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Alessandro Del Piero worth £100 million: Deal or No Deal?Posted by Andrew McNair in Serie A, Juventus, Alessandro De Piero |
News Flash: Juventus wouldn't sell Alessandro Del Piero for £100 million pounds.
Of course not "Old Lady", you like to hold onto your sparkling old gems.
Del Piero is one of my favourite all time players and I can remember watching him in his sprightly youth on Channel Four's Italian football show of a Sunday afternoon.
The now 34 year old has been called "past it" by many but the facts don‘t add up. In each of the last three seasons, the 91 times capped DelPiero has hit the 20 goals mark, that would be the three seasons between the ages of 31 and 33.
Not exactly past his best.
This year he has 13 goals to his name with half the season left, I wouldn't bet against him making it four and a row.
Maybe Juventus president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli has a point. Other than his sparkling 1997/98 season that produced 32 goals, the Italian is in the form of his life.
254 career goals and all but one of them for Juventus. The other came for Padova, before being plucked by the mighty Juventus and with his tally of 29 international goals, it all backs up the fact that Alessandro is a class act.
So if I was Juventus, would I sell?
My heart says no, my head says yes in a heart beat.
It won't happen of course, Gigli was just taking the chance to have a go at AC Milan but it brought up a talking point all the same.
Would you want your team to sell its soul?
Del Boy is Juve through and through, his soul will always be black and white.







