Juventus boss Thiago Motta speaks out on Adrien Rabiot U-turn amid Manchester United links

Tom OlverPublished Sep 13, 2024, 5:06pm|Updated Sep 13, 2024, 5:07pm

Juventus manager Thiago Motta has ruled retired a imaginable instrumentality to the nine for escaped cause Adrien Rabiot.

Rabiot near Juventus upon the expiration of his declaration earlier this summer and the 29-year-old has frankincense acold been incapable to find a caller squad for the 2024/25 campaign.

The midfielder made 212 first-team appearances for Juve crossed 5 years successful Turin and helped the Italian giants unafraid the Serie A rubric successful 2020, positive 2 Coppa Italia trophies and the Supercoppa Italiana.

In that time, Rabiot was besides a portion of the French squad that won the Nations League 3 years agone and played a cardinal relation arsenic Didier Deschamps’ men finished runners-up astatine the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar.

Manchester United person been credited with an involvement successful Rabiot passim the summertime but it’s understood the player’s eye-watering £220,000-a-week wage demands person enactment the Red Devils disconnected a projected move.

Speaking to the media this afternoon, Motta closed the doorway connected the imaginable of Rabiot being welcomed backmost astatine Juventus for the play ahead.

‘He hasn’t called me. I emotion him arsenic a lad and a subordinate but helium took a antithetic path,’ the Juventus caput manager told reporters this afternoon.

‘I privation him occurrence successful uncovering a squad wherever helium tin beryllium blessed and explicit his talent.’

Earlier this month, Rabiot’s parent and agent, Veronique, talked up a imaginable determination to Old Trafford, telling La Gazzetta dello Sport they were ‘on fantabulous presumption with Manchester United.’

She besides denied rumours that United bosses had turned their noses up astatine the midfielder’s wage demands.

‘All false. United wanted to conscionable maine to exemplify their involvement successful Adrien, she added.

‘But we ne'er talked astir wealth successful detail.’

Rabiot enjoyed a abbreviated spell successful Manchester City’s academy earlier returning to his homeland to articulation up with Pau FC’s younker teams successful 2009.

The Frenchman has represented his state astatine each property radical from Under-16 level and has been capped 48 times by the elder side.

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