Juventus and Milan: is the football alliance back for Roberto Baggio?

"I had bought Roberto Baggio. But at a certain point Gianni Agnelli called. The Lawyer sent a Fiat helicopter to Arcore, I went up with Berlusconi and they took us to Turin. I understood that Berlusconi was having second thoughts and I lost control. In the end, in the name of good relations, the president decided to give up Baggio". Year 1990, narrator Adriano Galliani: it was the "Holy Alliance" between Juventus e Milan. A sort of football pact between two winning clubs, to keep prices from skyrocketing. A gentlemen's agreement in the name of non-belligerence. Which could, in some way, become relevant again.

Far away are the times of Christian Abbiati's loan to the Bianconeri, a form of compensation for the injury suffered by Gianluigi Buffon during the Berlusconi Trophy. Or of Juventus' withdrawal from the negotiations for Carlitos Tevez, one step away from Milan in January 2012, with a photo of the Argentine at the table with Galliani: negotiations then fell through (and Tevez to Juventus in the summer of 2013). Less distant are the times of the shirt changes, after the historic ones of Andrea Pirlo on one side and Filippo Inzaghi on the other, above all, without forgetting precisely Roberto Baggio and Gonzalo Higuain, or Edgar Davids and Lorenzo Bonucci, up to Carlo Ancelotti. On the bench, last year Thiago Motta had also been approached by the Devils. While this winter Fikayo Tomori had seemed very close to moving to Turin to reform the pair of the last Rossoneri championship with Pierre Kalulu. In the Super Cup, however, Conceiçao had relaunched him. And even the talks with Tottenham had not come to fruition. Interests that could come back into fashion. Kalulu himself, moreover, was recently redeemed by Juventus (14 million plus 3 in bonuses). Inaugurating, perhaps, a session in the name of the Milanello-Continassa axis.

Maybe with a sort of hot potato swap: translated, Dusan Vlahovic and Theo Hernandez, both expiring in June 2026. There is no air of renewal between the Serbian and the Bianconeri: Fenerbahce is ready to shell out 30 million for the 25-year-old, who landed in Turin not by chance during the Massimiliano Allegri years. Max is said to have explicitly asked for a centre-forward and between the two, who challenged each other to score from the corner at the end of training between teasing and laughter, there has also been some recent contact. Weighing (and not a little) is the striker's salary: the increase foreseen in the contract, this summer, will bring him to 12 million per season. The atmosphere is much worse between Theo Hernandez and Milan. The Frenchman, after the agreement between the Rossoneri and Al Hilal for 30 million plus 5 in bonuses, rejected the Arabs (same thing, in January, with Como) and proposed himself to Atletico Madrid: negotiations fell through. The Juventus lead had already emerged during Giuntoli's management. And it may not have faded away yet.

A difficult intersection, however, the one with protagonist Andrea Cambiaso: among the favorites precisely for the replacement of Theo Hernandez, but a few months ago valued at 80 million in front of the City court. "Here I feel the trust of everyone, I'm fine and I never asked to leave", the recent words of the winger. The one who would have asked for it is Mattia Perin: the 32-year-old, out since February for the operation on a finger of one hand, is not part of the black and white expedition to the Club World Cup. A phone call with Allegri's assistant, the former goalkeeper Marco Landucci, could well have taken place.