00:00First of all, to confirm that Igor Tudor will be our coach for next season, not only for the World Cup, but for next season.
00:08We made this very clear to him on several occasions, and I sincerely hope that this will go beyond the World Cup, beyond next season also.
00:21And we are working on this, so I understand, you know, we are a massive club, and there is a lot of speculation around those key positions.
00:34But I repeat, and it's very clear, Igor will be with us for the 25-26 season, and hopefully beyond as well.
00:43There has been a lot of speculation regarding the sporting director position.
00:47Well, actually, we are thinking about hiring two types of people, not only one.
00:54So we are going to have a sporting director.
00:57We'll be in charge of contract management, transfers, relationship with agents.
01:02We'll sit on the strategy committee, obviously, and be involved in everything in relation to the transfer window.
01:09And we'll also have a look in terms of transfer window at the next gen and the academy, who will report to me.
01:22And then we will have a technical director, who will be dealing on all the performance side of the club day-to-day, who will also report to me.
01:32So it's actually not one role, it's two roles.
01:36We discussed this at length with Giorgio, with Maurizio, with the president, with the owner, to think what will be the best structure.
01:44And we are convinced it's the best structure that we can have in place.
01:48So the technical director will be the day-to-day point of contact with everything in relation to performance, whether it's medical, sports science, analytics, video analysis, coaches, head coach, players as well.
02:05And I'm very clear in my head of the type of individual we need for those two roles.
02:19Obviously, you might ask me for names.
02:22I won't give you any names, as you can expect.
02:25But in my head, I've got names.
02:27And for both roles, it's a process.
02:32We don't want to rush into making decisions.
02:35And I've spent a few years in my life doing that job, both sporting director and technical director, most of the time at the same time, in big clubs as well.
02:44So I know the role.
02:46And rather than rushing into making a decision, we want to take our time.
02:52It's a recruitment process for those two key positions.
02:57It doesn't happen overnight.
03:00The important thing for us was to decide on the structure.
03:03Once we decide on the structure, then we decide what type of individual we want.
03:10Once we decide what type of individual we want, we look at the market.
03:14And that's where we are at the moment.
03:15I'm pleased to announce that we reached very late last night in an agreement with PSG, Paris Saint-Germain,
03:23regarding the extension of the loan of Randal Coromani until the end of the World Cup.
03:28I spoke to the player last week, the day after the very difficult game that France had against Spain.
03:38And he made it very clear that he wanted to play the World Cup for Juventus.
03:42And also he wants to stay at Juventus for next season.
03:47So I had several conversations with PSG about this.
03:52The deadline to register players for the FIFA World Cup, club World Cup, sorry, is today.
03:57And we didn't come to an agreement with Juventus regarding the season long loan, so past the World Cup.
04:06But I was about to say very optimistic in football.
04:10It's not a good term.
04:11I'm optimistic that we can come to an agreement with PSG regarding the loan for the entire 25-26 season.
04:21PSG, Paris Saint-Germain have certainly not closed the door to a loan.
04:26And they know the player wants to stay with us.
04:29The player is more than open.
04:32So obviously that's good news.
04:35That's good news not only for the World Cup, but it's good news for the next season.
04:43Look, I mean, the first time I met the owner, he said, what do you want to achieve?
04:51I said, I want to do everything possible to win.
04:54I'm not going to guarantee anyone in this room or any fan in our community or the ownership or my colleagues here that we are going to win.
05:05But I can guarantee you we will do everything we can to win every competition we're playing.
05:12So if that's a shortcut to your question, then it's quite simple.
05:19I mean, in my head, there's not even an hesitation that when you wear that shirt and you sit in that place,
05:28the only way to go forward is to try to win trophies.
05:31Unfortunately, there is randomness in football.
05:36Or fortunately, there is luck, there is bad luck, there is the weather, there is better teams, worse teams sometimes.
05:44You know, you lose against worse teams.
05:45So we don't control everything.
05:48But whatever we can control, we should control it 100%.
05:52And controlling things 100% when you have a good coach and you have good players, you have very good chance of winning.
06:00There's still the randomness and the bad luck.
06:02And that's why we are all football mad, because anything can happen at any time.
06:07But trying to win will be my obsession on a daily basis.
06:13And I want to pass on that obsession to everyone at the club.
06:18You know, I think it's the culture of the club.
06:20So I will just try to maintain it or reinforce it.
06:24Look, I had a discussion with Dusan's agent last week.
06:32The player is coming back, if I remember well, because he's still staged tomorrow at three.
06:37So I'm planning to have a conversation with him to understand what he's got in his mind.
06:41When I look at what has happened recently, obviously he's a top player.
06:50This season he hasn't worked out for some reason.
06:52He started five games between the 1st of January and the end of the season in the league and in the Champions League.
07:00And for a player of his stature and his caliber, it's not enough.
07:04But I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is wrong, this is right.
07:08And the previous coach was right or wrong and ego is right or wrong.
07:13I don't know yet.
07:14You know, I need to speak to the player to have a feel for how he feels.
07:18As I said, there is no doubt he's a top player.
07:21There is a contract situation that needs to be resolved or not, depending on what he wants and how we feel also about him.
07:30So unless I speak to him, until I speak to him and have a deep understanding of where he's at psychologically,
07:38and as far as relationship with the club is concerned, then I will be able to recommend making a decision.
07:47And then, again, a piece of tissue.
07:49Alright.
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