Bruno Alves is at the moment closest to Juventus

Bruno Alves close to Juventus signing

Bruno Alves is at the moment closest to Juventus. Let's refresh our memory and bring back Antonio Conte's central defender "shopping list". The players are listed in order of preference:

1. Andrea Ranocchia (Inter)
2. Angelo Ogbonna (Torino)
3. Bruno Alves (Zenit St. Petersburg)

Now, Juventus have tried to convince Inter to sell their 18.000.000 € investment at least three times. Every time the response given was "The player is not for sale." At the moment there is no realistic possibility to acquire Andrea Ranocchia.

As far as Angelo Ogbonna is concerned, the player would love to be at Conte's disposal but his always "friendly" club, at least when Juventus is involved, Torino values him an astonishing 18.000.000 €! For a player that played in Serie B, no matter how talented he might be, this is a crazy valutation.

Bearing in mind these two stories let's explain the operation "Bruno Alves". The player might move to Italy as part of an exchange with serbian winger Miloš Krasić. The russians Zenit are in favor of this operation and now all we have to do is wait for the sides to agree on the details.