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Understandably, it\u2019s been a little while since we\u2019ve much of anything about Igor Tudor following Juventus parting ways with the Croatian manager back in late October. It is usually that way \u2014 and especially so when you are dismissed early in a season in a league in which managers can\u2019t just jump right back in the game due to league rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But Tudor took a step to get back in the game outside of Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
According to Sky Sport Italia\u2019s Gianluca Di Marzio<\/a> and other reports in Italy on Thursday, Juventus have terminated Tudor\u2019s contract, which will allow him to sign for a job if he is to receive a potential offer from anywhere else in Europe. That seems to be the potential play here since, according to Italian transfer reporter Nicolo Schira<\/a>, Tudor has already received several approaches from foreign clubs about potentially coaching them in the near future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This is a step that the man Tudor replaced, Thiago Motta, still hasn\u2019t done, as he continues to weigh on Juve\u2019s payroll through the summer of 2027 after being sacked all of 10 months into his spell as manager in Turin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tudor, like Motta, had a contract that previously ran through 2027, one he signed prior to Juventus\u2019 participation in the Club World Cup last summer amid talk that the Bianconeri had previously tried to sign the likes of Antonio Conte and Gian Piero Gasperini<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While there is no word on how much it may have cost Tudor to agree to a termination of his contract, you have to believe that it\u2019s a decent chunk of money so that both the club wouldn\u2019t have to pay him as much as the contract would have mandated and that he can potentially take a job in the very near future. We don\u2019t know exactly where that next job for Tudor may be, but it\u2019s clearly something he thought strongly enough about to want to be able to be free of his Juventus contract now rather than wait a little while longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Considering the fact that Tudor\u2019s contract ran through 2027, that is not an insignificant amount of money saved if it is indeed that amount of cash. And for a club like Juventus who are still very much strapped for cash on top of the fact they\u2019re still paying Motta while they currently employ Luciano Spalletti, any savings is a important thing to remember in all of this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n So this will be viewed as one last gesture from a Juventino to help out the club a little bit. And, at the same time, Tudor gets the chance to get back to work faster than he might have if he waited until the summertime (or even longer than that).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n