Juventus has completed the arrival of Mohamed Ihattaren, Fabrizio Romano knows Eindhovens Dagblad and Goaljournalist Romeo Agresti. The Italian top club has signed the 19-year-old attacking midfielder and will immediately send him to Sampdoria on a rental basis. It is as yet unclear what amount PSV will have left after the departure of Ihattaren.
Ihattaren hit a collision course with PSV this summer. On Saturday 31 July, PSV announced that he would follow an individual training program on the PSV Campus. The club accused the talent of ‘failing to fulfill a number of agreements with the club’. Ihattaren was not selected for the Champions League matches with FC Midtjylland and the match against Ajax for the Johan Cruijff Scale. Shortly before that, he had called in sick for the fifth time in eight months.
Ihattaren comes from the PSV youth academy. He made his debut in January 2019 under the leadership of Mark van Bommel and made a good impression at PSV in particular in the first half of the 2019/20 season. After the interruption of the competition due to the corona virus, Ihattaren was unable to regain his old form. Under trainer Roger Schmidt he was never sure of a starting place. For Ihattaren, the counter at PSV has stopped at 74 matches, in which he scored 10 times and provided 11 assists.
It remained unclear for a long time where Ihattaren’s future would lie. “If it is up to the PSV trainer, Ihattaren will end up at a dead end. I will do everything I can to prevent that,” agent Mino Raiola said earlier this week in conversation with The Telegraph. Ihattaren was previously linked to AS Monaco, but now signs with Juventus. La Vecchia Signora immediately rents him out for one season to Sampdoria, the current number thirteen in Serie A.
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