{"id":3480,"date":"2026-01-28T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:39:49","slug":"bargain-bin-bianconeri-juventus-to-choose-between-free-agent-options-zeki-celik-and-oscar-mingueza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Bargain bin Bianconeri: Juventus to choose between free agent options Zeki Celik and Oscar Mingueza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">1<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Juventus\u2019s search for a right-back could be over this summer, as one of two options have been touted to sign for Luciano Spalletti\u2019s Bianconeri.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><\/p>\n<p>With plans set for big-budget improvements in other positions, the recruitment team are reportedly working hard at Continassa to sift through viable free agent options in defence. <\/p>\n<p>Confidence is reportedly low in Joao Mario\u2019s capability at right-back, so much so, that the untested Filip Kostic emerged from the bench against Napoli to take up the position instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The two names in the limelight are currently Roma\u2019s Zeki Celik and Celta Vigo\u2019s Oscar Mingueza.\u00a0Celik has risen to the top of the list of favourites because he knows Serie A and wouldn\u2019t need to settle in, unlike Mingueza, who would be a relative stab in the dark like Joao Mario\u2019s move from Porto last summer. Bournemouth\u2019s Marco Senesi is another candidate with his contract\u2019s expiry.<\/p>\n<p>While Juve look to be sifting through free transfer opportunities to avoid burdening their budget with signings, they also having several salaries to offload. <\/p>\n<p>Most notably, Dusan Vlahovic is in the final year of his contract, as are Weston McKennie and Kostic. Discussions about a renewal may open up for some of them, but overall, the intention is to rebalance the squad.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>GIFN\u00a0|\u00a0Max Bradfield<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsitaly.com\/2026\/bargain-bin-bianconeri-juventus-to-choose-between-free-agent-options-zeki-celik-and-oscar-mingueza\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Juventus\u2019s search for a right-back could be over this summer, as one of two options have been touted to sign for Luciano Spalletti\u2019s Bianconeri. With plans set for big-budget improvements in other positions, the recruitment team are reportedly working hard at Continassa to sift through viable free agent options in defence. Confidence is reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-giocatori-italiani-allestero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}