Juventus Getting Closer to New Zealand Left-back

TURIN - Juventus continues to search for new recruits. Incidentally, the 2021 winter transfer market is still ongoing.

Recently Juve's radar was aimed at left-back from New Zealand, Liberato Cacace. Currently the 20-year-old is strengthening the Belgian club, Sint Truidense.

The Old Lady has made an approach. Negotiations started.

"The two clubs already have good business relations. So that talks can run relatively smoothly," said the report quoted by Football Italia , Friday (22/1).

According to Sky and Calciomercato , the deal will be worth five to six million euros. This means that if you want to get Cacace's signature, the Bianconeri must hand over funds of this amount to the other party.

Sint-Truiden brought in the defender in August 2020 and then from Wellington Phoenix. At that time, Cacace's price was around 1.2 million euros.

Slowly but surely, the value in question started to rise. That's thanks to the two assists he created in 16 Belgian League matches.

Cacace already has three senior-level New Zealand national team caps. It seems that he will continue to be a mainstay of the All Whites squad.

If he has officially joined Juventus, it is predicted that Cacace will not be in the first team immediately. He will be sent to the U-23 squad that competes in Serie C.

But that doesn't mean his chances of playing at the top level of the Italian League are limited. From time to time Juve can use the power of their junior jugador.

Moreover, the left-back area only leaves an Alex Sandro at the forefront. This Brazilian man is frequently absent due to injury and a number of other reasons.

Gianluca Frabotta, who is Sandro's cover, also comes from the Juventus U-23 team. That proves Cacace's opportunity to taste Serie A and the Champions League is wide open later.