Almost Two Years After Leaving, Federico Chiesa Could Return To Juventus This Winter

In what would definitely be a sort of transfer coup, Italian giant, Juventus have reportedly opened discussions regarding a potential return for their former star, Federico Chiesa, who was exiled from the Bianconeri first-team squad less than 18 months ago when he was deemed unwanted by the club.

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With the January transfer window already in full swing, recent reports emanating from Italy seems to be suggesting that this negotiations are in the early stages for now as the Turin based club are looking to add to their attacking department this month for their new coach, Luciano Spalletti.

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This comes after criticism of summer signing Jonathan David and a long-term injury to centre-forward Dusan Vlahovic. While there have been suggestions that the Bianconeri could move for a ‘traditional’ or ‘heavyweight’ no.9, there have also been reports that the Old Lady are keen to bring Chiesa back.

According to updates from Fabrizio Romano, Juve have now opened discussions over a potential deal for Chiesa in January and these are said to be exploratory talks to gauge the feasibility of a deal with Liverpool in January as the player has been unable to secure regular football since making the move.

Instead, he has had to wait patiently for opportunities at Anfield, playing for just 104 minutes in the Premier League last term after struggling to make his way back to full fitness after a turbulent pre-season and has been linked with a move away from the club since swapping Serie A for the EPL.

Chiesa had effectively been exiled from the Juventus first-team squad under Thiago Motta in the summer of 2024 with less than a year remaining on his Bianconeri contract at the time and that led to his joining Liverpool in a cut-price deal believed to be worth around €15m.

The 28-year-old has begun to earn more trust on Merseyside this term, and has already doubled his Premier League appearances and minutes played at the half-way point of the 2025-26 season and with injuries and international call-ups to contend with, it remains to be seen whether Liverpool will be open to letting Chiesa leave now.

Arne Slot’s side are already dealing with a long-term injury to record signing Alexander Isak, and the future of Mohamed Salah, currently away for the Africa Cup of Nations, is far from settled either but that hasn’t been enough for a place in the starting line-up but his minutes has greatly improved.

In a related development, former Milan, Real Madrid, Roma, Juventus and England head coach Fabio Capello has lashed out at the standard of refereeing in the Serie A recently, especially in the last round as he gave an in-depth interview to Spanish outlet Marca, discussing his time in charge of Real Madrid amongst various other topics.

Capello was also asked for his opinions on the current state of refereeing and the seemingly increasing number of errors involving VAR decisions. “Leave it, leave it, that’s a topic I get very angry about. Referees are a mafia.” He replied in the interview while discussing a recent game.

“They don’t want to have any former players involved with VAR, those who know the movements in football, those movements that players make to stop themselves, to help themselves etc and a lot of times, they make decisions that are incorrect because they haven’t played themselves and they don’t recognise these movements.”

“A player gets touched in the face, throws himself to the ground and they whistle. But why whistle? If I’m 1.90m tall and the other player is 1.75m, my arm is at the height of his face. Why would you blow? It drives me crazy. Crazy.” He continued in his assessment.

Capello believes that including at least one former player in the VAR control room would go a long way to ‘fixing’ refereeing reviews. “Put one (former player) in there, telling the referee: ‘Well, I don’t think it’s a penalty’, or ‘I do’. With UEFA, we analysed 20 situations in which penalties were awarded.”

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“When reviewed by former players and coaches, six of them were given as penalties and 14 were not.” He concluded and his suggestion seems to make a bit of sense as we’ve seen a wave of questionable calls from the referees lately, although not malicious but enough to cause controversy.

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