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.
03:37And he made it very clear that he wanted to play the World Cup for Juventus and also he wants to stay at Juventus for next season.
03:46So 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.
03:58And we didn't come to an agreement with Juventus regarding the season-long loan.
04:03So past the World Cup, I was about to say very optimistic in football, it'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.
04:22PSG, 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.
05:04But 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 know, you wear that shirt and you sit in that place, the only way to go forward is to try to win trophies.
05:31Unfortunately, there is randomness in football.
05:36Unfortunately, there is luck, there is bad luck, there is the weather, there is better teams, worse teams sometimes, you know, you lose against worse teams.
05:45So we don't control everything.
05:48But whatever we can control, we should control it 100%.
05:51And controlling things at 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.
06:26Look, I had a discussion with Dusan's agent last week.
06:31The 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.
06:44When 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.
06:59And for a player of his stature and his calibre, it's not enough.
07:05But I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is wrong, this is right.
07:09And the previous coach was right or wrong.
07:12And Igor 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, you know, recommend making a decision.
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