Market: from Huijsen to Fagioli, homegrown youngsters immediately sold. Next Gen rhymes with balance sheet. Juve lets talents go

New generation yes, but third party. In the watermark of the summer and winter sessions of the transfer market of Juventus 2024-25, there is in fact one aspect that inevitably catches the eye: with the passage of Nicolo Fagioli to Fiorentina (loan with obligation to buy that, in fact, will become definitive at the end of the season), in a few months the black and white club has cut the umbilical cord with yet another symbol of its youth sector, one of the many that seemed destined to represent the future of the Lady. Instead, no.

Fagioli is just the latest example of this strategy that capitalizes on the best products of the youth system and Juventus Next Gen: between July and January, the club let go, permanently or with formulas that will become permanent, Dean Huijsen, Hans Nicolussi Caviglia, Enzo Barrenechea, Samuel Iling-Junior and Matias Soulé and, indeed, the new Viola midfielder who left the Lady after more than ten years of militancy, starting from the youth teams. Their careers tell of a total of 174 appearances with the Next Gen and 154 with the first Juventus team, proving that, evidently, all the boys could have been there, at that level, maybe not as starters, but at least in the squad, in the now famous rotations.

The operations mentioned above alone have already brought about 65 million to the Bianconeri coffers, which will become about twenty more when the time for redemptions arrives. Fagioli could have followed in Marchisio's footsteps, from the Pulcini to the Bianconeri glory, but instead he will follow in Moise Kean's footsteps. More than Next Gen, the generation of the future, it is next time: it will be for the next time. Never before has the role of the second team become so clear, that is, helping budgets suffering from sanctions and the aftermath of the capital gains case.

By choice and necessity, here is a series of farewells to which should be added those, in the recent past, of Koni De Winter, Radu Dragusin and Filippo Ranocchia. And the next one - even if he is now on dry loan - will likely be Fabio Miretti. Oxygen for the balance sheets and questionable choices: Lloyd Kelly, born in 1998, new Juventus player, until last season was a Bournemouth centre-back who, now, is enjoying his counterpart Huijsen, born in 2005, who Juventus sold for less than the price agreed with Newcastle for Kelly.

Was it worth it? Yildiz, Mbangula and Savona remain in the first team today. Who, perhaps, will also make Thiago Motta's fortune, but dreaming of flags, in Turin, now makes little sense: it is a reason of State, not fairy tales.