‘If Cristiano Ronaldo had gone earlier, better for us. It was not something difficult to digest, ‘says Giorgio Chiellini, Juventus captain

Giorgio Chiellini gave an interview to the Italian journalist Diletta Leotta for DAZN, where he spoke about the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo de la Vecchia Signora: “Ronaldo left on August 28, it would have been better for us if he had left earlier. It was not something difficult to digest, but it gives you a bit of a surprise and, in my opinion, we paid something in terms of points in the first matches ”.

“If he had left on August 1, we would have had time to prepare better and we would have reached the start of the championship a little more prepared,” says the Juve captain, published in the newspaper AS from Spain.

In addition, the Italian defender confesses that he was not caught by surprise: “He had reached a point in the relationship where Cristiano needed new encouragement and a team that could play for him, because when he finds a team like this he is decisive. It doesn’t surprise me because he has shown it throughout his career and also in the three years with us ”.

The bianconeri They want to rejuvenate the squad and this could have been the turning point for the Portuguese star to leave Turin: “A rejuvenation and restart program is underway here at Juventus. It is clear that if Ronaldo had stayed, it would have been an added value and we would have exploited it with pleasure, but it could also be that he decided to start with a team more focused on the present than in the future ”. (D)