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It feels like the bulk of Juventus\u2019 transfer dealings is centered around trying to find some clarity about the attacking group Igor Tudor will have to work with next season. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s somebody joining the club (Jonathan David or Jadon Sancho) or somebody almost certain to leave (Dusan Vlahovic), the rumors are constantly churning.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s somebody who is essentially stuck in the middle at the moment: Randal Kolo Muani.<\/p>\n
Juventus have already had one bid to try and retain Kolo Muani\u2019s services for next season rebuffed by Paris Saint-Germain. But it looks like another bid with a little bit more money on the front end is set to be submitted to the Parisian side that is currently beating up on Real Madrid in the Club World Cup semifinals as this sentence is being written. This bid, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, will be worth an initial loan fee of \u20ac10 million with an option to buy around \u20ac40 million. That would allow PSG to not suffer a loss on a player that they invested nearly nine figures worth of a transfer fee in just two summers ago, but it\u2019s not the kind of formula that they have been pushing for.<\/p>\n That\u2019s right, you probably can guess what\u2019s next. PSG are still fully entrenched on trying to get Juventus to make their proposed option to buy into an obligation so they know for a fact that the \u20ac40 million worth of money come next summer is a guarantee.<\/p>\n Is that something Juventus might be willing to do? At this point, we don\u2019t really know for sure. We know they want to keep Kolo Muani around. We also know that Kolo Muani is plenty happy with how his first six months on loan in Turin went and would quite like to stay at the club rather than potentially going back to a roster where he is very much out of their plans and not on good terms with the coach.<\/p>\n But the catch is that PSG don\u2019t want Juventus to have an option to buy and are probably hoping Kolo Muani\u2019s willingness to stay in Turin tips things in the end. <\/p>\n So as much as Juve might be in a standoff of sorts with one of their current strikers, it also appears they\u2019re in a bit of a holding pattern when it comes to see if PSG will agree to a deal that is more on their terms or if they\u2019ll have to up things even further to get the current European champions to agree to a deal that allows Kolo Muan to stay in Serie A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n