The Lukic case has rekindled the tension between the coach and the technical director, after the match against Empoli a new quarrel between the two
It immediately seemed strange that after the match against Empoli, a match in which Torino managed to recover two goals from a disadvantage in the final and even risked winning, Ivan Juric was not presented or in front of Dazn’s cameras , nor in the press room, sending his deputy Matteo Paro. “He needed a moment to himself, he was a little tried, a little tired,” explained the assistant coach. Even a little angry, one could add: at the end of the match, in fact, the coach was the protagonist of a new dispute with the manager Davide Vagnati.
Juric-Vagnati: the dispute in Empoli
The second half (or second round) of what happened in the summer in Austria did not take place at the Castellani, but the tone turned on. At the end of the match, as reported by La Stampa, Juric remained on the pitch for a long time talking with one of his collaborators, then when he returned to the locker room he would have raised his voice with Vagnati. The reason that triggered this new quarrel is the negotiation for the sale of Sasa Lukic to Fulham: Juric would not want to lose the Serbian midfielder this season, also because he has been complaining (rightly) about the shortcomings of the organic from the numerical point of view (“You need two players to numerically complete the squad” he repeatedly reiterated). Now that with Ivan Ilic he can finally count on a reinforcement in midfield he doesn’t want to lose one of his most important players. On the other hand, there is the company that has been thinking about the idea of selling Lukic in January for some time, also for fear of not receiving another offer in the summer like the one currently presented by Fulham (about 10 million plus 2 bonuses).
