New 12 months’s resolutions for a few of Juventus most necessary gamers

Welcome to 2026, all people. How’s it been to this point? Enjoyable? Thrilling? Perhaps kinda boring? All of these are acceptable solutions. Contemplating that we simply had as Juventus supporters, a bit of extra of a low-key begin to the brand new yr is sounding fairly good proper about now.

However with the brand new yr comes new issues … perhaps.

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For Juventus, it feels fairly easy: be who you had been in the previous few weeks of 2025 slightly than the primary few months of the yr.

That’s the hope, in fact, as we start the brand new yr with Juve being in a tightly packed high 5 within the Serie A standings. With Luciano Spalletti now constructing some momentum after taking on for Igor Tudor within the ultimate days of October, we hit January with some good vibes and a few optimism about the place the 66-year-old Tuscan is taking this squad after a turbulent first 10 months of 2025 that noticed a pair of managerial modifications.

Spalletti has introduced some calm. He’s introduced some steadiness. He’s additionally introduced some actually good quotes at his pre- and post-match press conferences.

In order we start this new yr, let’s do one thing utterly acceptable for the primary day of January: throw out some New 12 months’s resolutions for a few of Juventus finest and most necessary gamers.

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For Gleison Bremer: simply keep wholesome

Appears fairly easy, doesn’t it?

In 2024, Bremer was pressured to overlook a lot of the season as a result of a torn ACL in his knee. Almost 12 months later, Bremer was pressured to overlook over two months as a result of meniscus surgical procedure in that very same knee. Simply when it seemed like the massive Brazilian heart again was going to be again to his spectacular finest, he was pressured off the sphere with one other knee subject that clearly performed a task within the trajectory of the early months of the 2025-26 season.

Bremer, fortunately, is again within the fold and is coming off an look in Juventus’ win over Pisa by which he performed the complete 90 minutes and seemed slightly spry doing so. The factor is now to simply maintain it going.

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Contemplating what Juve’s protection has been with and with out Bremer the final 18 months, it’s fairly straightforward to know simply what a distinction arguably one of the best heart again in Serie A makes a large distinction when he’s within the lineup. With out him, Juventus’ protection is simply an strange type of unit. With him, although, their flooring is simply a lot greater than when he’s lacking.

It’s nearly conserving him wholesome, conserving him match throughout a time when the schedule goes to get busy once more shortly and Spalletti determining a manner to ensure his finest defender by a large margin can persistently be obtainable with out pushing it over the sting and risking much more prolonged durations out of motion.

As a result of let’s face it, people: In case you’re an opposing attacker, is the person pictured under anyone you actually need to see staring you down a number of yards away?

Yeah, that’s gotta be a factor no one needs to see shouting of their course. Don’t let the finely-tuned line up together with his hair or the nice appears idiot you. That may be a dangerous man, and he needs to attempt to stop you from doing something good when you’re on the opposing staff.

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And when he’s wholesome, that’s one thing he does very often, if not the overwhelming majority of the time. Now it’s nearly conserving him wholesome and permitting probably the most necessary gamers at Juventus to play repeatedly once more.

For Kenan Yildiz: simply maintain being you

There was nobody singular factor that has been extra satisfying over the past 12 months than to see Yildiz proceed to be the taking pictures star that everyone thought he may actually be.

Yildiz’s 2025 seemed a bit of bit like this:

And who’s to say that 2026 goes to be any totally different?

Or, perhaps it’s higher phrased like this: Who’s to say that 2026 isn’t go to be even higher than his 2025?

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Sure, Yildiz’s significance to this Juventus squad solely appears to get greater and greater by the week today. You have to look no additional than how he closed the calendar yr, making purpose contribution after purpose contribution throughout Juventus’ back-to-back-to-back wins to shut out December. It will not be logical to anticipate him to proceed on that type of tempo as a result of your head tells you that’s simply not how this sport normally works, however it is a 20-year-old participant who is just getting higher as time goes on.

Plus, you throw Spalletti’s affect on Yildiz’s sport into the combination, and also you’re sitting there rubbing your fingers collectively like Birdman since you simply can’t assist however take into consideration how good this younger man may be.

It actually feels just like the sky is the restrict for Yildiz, who received’t flip 21 till Could. The place he takes his personal kind and this Juventus squad over the course of those subsequent few months stay to be seen. But it surely certain does really feel like it is going to be fairly satisfying watching him solely proceed his trajectory towards stardom because the second half of the 2025-26 season arrives.

Oh, and get the contract extension achieved, Juventus. I can converse for everyone right here: We don’t desire a January switch window that is stuffed with rumors about Kenan perhaps or perhaps not being tempted by the Premier League. Simply signal him to the brand new deal, get it throughout the end line and let him cook dinner some extra. That’s all.

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For Pierre Kalulu: simply get some relaxation

At this level final season it felt like Kalulu had performed nearly each attainable minute there had been — and principally out of necessity due to the depth crunch that Juve handled for a lot of early months of the 2024-25 marketing campaign.

To date this yr, that’s really the case.

Kalulu goes into the brand new yr having performed each single second of all 24 video games Juventus have performed to this point this season. As we all know, a number of these begins have come on very brief relaxation with how compact the schedule may be in between every of the worldwide breaks. However that hasn’t stopped Kalulu from being the one fixed presence in a beginning protection that has seen loads of different gamers be out and in of the lineup as a result of damage.

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Plus, let’s not neglect, he begin this season taking part in as a wingback earlier than Spalletti arrived. That may be a factor that really occurred, folks! And for quantity of video games, too!

However now that Kalulu is again within the three-man protection that Spalletti has stored in place, he simply appears to be rather more snug and again to taking part in on the stage that he was for a lot of final season when he was considered one of Juventus’ finest gamers. (You recognize, the type of kind that made the purchase possibility seem like a mortal lock to be picked up.)

Sooner or later — particularly with a busy January forward — you anticipate Kalulu to get some relaxation and take a sport off. However till then, he’s simply going to go on the market and maintain being as regular as may be. After him being like that for his first 18 months at Juventus, there’s no cause to suppose it received’t maintain being the case irrespective of what number of minutes he has logged this season.

For Khephren Thuram: rediscover the participant we noticed a lot of final season

Because the variety of days earlier than the 2025-26 season started acquired smaller and smaller, I couldn’t assist however get fairly excited concerning the potential of Thuram’s second yr in Turin and the way a lot better it may very well be in comparison with the primary.

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The fact of what has really performed out in comparison with my hopes haven’t matched up.

Be it bodily issues or simply struggling basically, Thuram’s kind has not been the explosive type of final season. Whereas he’s on tempo to play across the similar quantity of minutes in Serie A as he did final season, Thuram solely has one purpose and one help to his identify via Juventus’ first 17 league fixtures. After a debut season in Turin by which he had 9 purpose contributions, that could be a follow-up quantity that isn’t precisely one thing to boast about.

We all know Juventus’ midfield is way from the place it’s been even initially of the last decade, however Thuram is definitely the participant within the group who has the very best ceiling. Now it’s about attempting to get again to exhibiting simply what sort of participant he was final season as a result of that model was actually, actually enjoyable to look at.

For Loïs Openda and Jonathan David: take full benefit of Dusan Vlahovic being out

We in all probability received’t be seeing the massive Serbian striker for not less than a pair extra months, so which means there’s going to be loads of probabilities for Juve’s two summer time arrivals to get taking part in time. (Minus some form of shock January signing or the resurrection of Arek Milik now that he’s wholesome once more.)

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It’s about what Openda and David can do with these probabilities.

There’s been indicators of life from each in latest weeks. How a lot of that’s related to the truth that they know they’re not competing for minutes with Vlahovic for the subsequent few months is unknown, however it positively just isn’t nothing. Openda had an excellent sport in opposition to Roma when Juve discovered find out how to use him finest. David, for the struggles he nonetheless clearly exhibits, does have targets in Juve’s final two Champions League fixtures.

So … it’s one thing!