The Kop Gang: Amauri Carvalho Football Players Pics

His name is Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira. He’s a target of half the big teams of Serie A, on the shortlist of many more teams in Europe (Lyon, Valencia, and Real Madrid notably), and seemingly very close to heading to Juventus next year.

At least according to Gazzetta dello Sport: the pink newspaper is reporting that Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini confirmed the latest rumours, and indeed met with fellow president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli and the entire Juventus staff, earlier on Tuesday afternoon. “We sat down, talked about many things, and confirmed the Bianconeri interest for Amauri. We looked at the players they have available, and we shall now see” admitted Zamparini. “There will be another meeting next month, at which time general managers Rino Foschi [Palermo] and Alessio Secco [Juve] will work together to find an agreement, and I believe it will be successful“.

The basis of the agreement, Gazzetta speculates, is said to include a €12m transfer fee, plus the exchange of Palermo-interested players such as Marco Marchionni, Paolo De Ceglie, Davide Lanzafame, Sebastian Giovinco, Claudio Marchisio or Antonio Nocerino. As for Raffaele Palladino, given the Juve midfielder/striker’s recent declarations he wasn’t interested to moving to Sicily, Zamparini declared that “he is no longer a club’s target”.