{"id":23106,"date":"2022-07-08T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/08\/giorgio-chiellini-urges-juventus-to-move-for-chelsea-star\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T22:00:36","slug":"giorgio-chiellini-urges-juventus-to-move-for-chelsea-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/08\/giorgio-chiellini-urges-juventus-to-move-for-chelsea-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Giorgio Chiellini urges Juventus to move for Chelsea star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Juventus icon Giorgio Chiellini has, on Friday, tipped his former club to swoop for a key member of the attacking ranks of Premier League giants Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The player in question? Christian Pulisic.<\/p>\n<p>For those not aware, recent weeks have seen wide-man Pulisic routinely linked with a move to Turin, to link up with Massimiliano Allegri\u2019s Juve ahead of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid the suggestion that the one-time Borussia Dortmund standout could be utilised as a makeweight in a cash-plus-player deal for Chelsea target Matthijs de Ligt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chelsea\u2019s Matthijs de Ligt negotiations progressing<\/p>\n<p>Club are prepared to allow Christian Pulisic or Timo Werner to move in opposite direction while talks continue over Nathan Ake\u2019s return \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Matt_Law_DT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@matt_law_dt<\/a> reports <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hqbzcEGNUT\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/hqbzcEGNUT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeleFootball\/status\/1542555502814662658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To this point, it has remained unclear just how receptive the board at the Allianz Stadium have been to such a prospect, amid suggestions that the Bianconeri would rather sanction a straight cash deal in the case of De Ligt\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p>One individual with long standing ties to Juventus who is of the opinion that Pulisic would prove a fine addition to the Old Lady\u2019s ranks, though, is Giorgio Chiellini.<\/p>\n<p>Italian international Chiellini of course brought the legendary chapter of his Juve career to a close this summer, since linking up with MLS outfit Los Angeles FC as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/juventus-itajuventus\/story\/4696596\/usmnts-pulisic-a-good-fit-for-juventus-chiellini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>ESPN<\/em><\/a>, the veteran defender was therefore unsurprisingly drawn on the prospect of one of the star members of the United States international setup \u2013 Pulisic \u2013 linking up with his former club.<\/p>\n<p>And Chiellini appeared fully behind the idea, in explaining:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPulisic is very good, I think, when he starts from the side and comes inside, and with the injury of Chiesa \u2014 he [will] surely still return, but not before September, and in the first months, surely he can play every game.<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the [arrival] of Angel Di Maria, Pulisic could be the fantastic third winger for Juventus. He has improved year by year, he did a fantastic season in Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/amid-ac-milan-links-chelseas-hakim-ziyech-confirms-plans-to-alter-representation\/\">Amid AC Milan links, Chelsea\u2019s Hakim Ziyech confirms plans to alter representation<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/chelsea-readying-efforts-to-tie-reece-james-down-for-the-long-term\/\">Chelsea readying efforts to tie Reece James down for the long term<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus icon Giorgio Chiellini has, on Friday, tipped his former club to swoop for a key member of the attacking ranks of Premier League giants Chelsea. The player in question? Christian Pulisic. For those not aware, recent weeks have seen wide-man Pulisic routinely linked with a move to Turin, to link up with Massimiliano Allegri\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}