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Luciano Spalletti will be the new Juventus coach and is poised to sign a season-long contract with an automatic option. The former Italy coach maintained his pole position throughout the process, edging out Raffaele Palladino, La Repubblica informs.
The new gaffer will earn €3M net till the end of the campaign. The parties met on Tuesday. The negotiation was helped by the manager’s eagerness to end his hiatus. He was fired by the Italian Federation following the loss to Norway last June, which will most likely cost the Azzurri direct qualification to the 2026 World Cup.
Juventus reached out to Palladino, too, who worked with their exec François Modesto at Monza, but Spalletti was…