{"id":12450,"date":"2019-10-18T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=12450"},"modified":"2019-10-19T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:38:46","slug":"maurizio-sarri-reveals-mario-mandzukic-is-not-training-with-juventus-team-mates-after-striking-a-deal-with-the-club-as-manchester-united-prepare-a-january-bid-for-the-croatian-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/10\/18\/maurizio-sarri-reveals-mario-mandzukic-is-not-training-with-juventus-team-mates-after-striking-a-deal-with-the-club-as-manchester-united-prepare-a-january-bid-for-the-croatian-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurizio Sarri reveals Mario Mandzukic is NOT training with Juventus team-mates after striking a deal with the club, as Manchester United prepare a January bid for the Croatian striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Juventus manager Maurizio Sarri confirms Mario Mandzukic is not training\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The Croatian is isolated from his team-mates in agreement with the club\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><b>Mandzukic has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester\u00a0United in January<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><b>Deal will be more likely should\u00a0Massimiliano Allegri take up United hot seat\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mario Mandzukic is not training with his Juventus team-mates as per an agreement with the club, manager Maurizio Sarri has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mandzukic is yet to make an appearance for Juventus this season, and it now seems his time at the club is coming to an abrupt end &#8211; with Manchester United close to sealing a deal for him to move in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sarri, who replaced\u00a0Massimiliano Allegri as manager in the summer, said he is open to the Croat&#8217;s situation changing, but it has emerged that the striker doesn&#8217;t see his team-mates or attend video analysis and tactical sessions with club staff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5787fba67d595104\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/10\/18\/15\/19887782-7588653-image-m-80_1571408962756.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Mandzukic is heading for the exit door at Juventus and could be coming to England\" width=\"634\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Mario Mandzukic is heading for the exit door at Juventus and could be coming to England<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-cf0a55380f87f39b\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/10\/18\/15\/19887876-7588653-image-a-81_1571409084645.jpg\" alt=\"Sarri announced Mandzukic's isolation on Friday though said the situation could change\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay-icon mobile-gallery\">\n<div class=\"mobile-gallery-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Sarri announced Mandzukic&#8217;s isolation on Friday though said the situation could change<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking at his pre-match press conference before Juve&#8217;s game against Bologna on Saturday, Sarri said: &#8216;Mandzukic is not training with us, in agreement with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If the agreement changes, I am open to everything.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A move to Manchester would be made all the more likely should former Juventus manager Allegri take over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to reports from Italian outlet <span class=\"mol-style-italic\">Tuttosport<\/span>, Allegri is already in discussions with United over a \u00a36.5million deal to replace Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Italian has a strong working relationship with Mandzukic, having signed him for Juventus in 2015, and heaped praise on the Croatian striker in a recent interview with Polish outlet\u00a0<span class=\"mol-style-italic\">Przeglad Sportowy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-3bebb897438a665d\" class=\"blkBorder img-share b-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/10\/18\/15\/19888264-7588653-image-m-92_1571409610110.jpg\" alt=\"Former Juventus manager Max Allegri is a frontrunner for the Manchester United job\" width=\"634\" height=\"505\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Former Juventus manager Max Allegri is a frontrunner for the Manchester United job<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Mandzukic is a special player for me. He gave amazing room for manoeuvre. Great footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He often changed clubs, so he had difficult patches. But he stayed at Juventus for five years. This is one of my biggest successes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mandzukic is one of six names on United&#8217;s January wishlist, with the club also interested in Moussa Dembele, Saul Niguez and James Maddison.<\/p>\n<p>source;dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus manager Maurizio Sarri confirms Mario Mandzukic is not training\u00a0 The Croatian is isolated from his team-mates in agreement with the club\u00a0 Mandzukic has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester\u00a0United in January Deal will be more likely should\u00a0Massimiliano Allegri take up United hot seat\u00a0 Mario Mandzukic is not training with his Juventus team-mates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[4760,1258,11493,9259,490,492,12791,11252,115,3232,2894,8126,170,190,11973,3233,3234,8840,7333,6348,8033,3954,594],"class_list":["post-12450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-allegri","tag-england","tag-interview","tag-italian","tag-james-maddison","tag-juventus","tag-manager","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-mandzukic","tag-massimiliano-allegri","tag-match","tag-old-trafford","tag-ole-gunnar-solskjaer","tag-one","tag-przeglad-sportowy","tag-sarri","tag-strong","tag-summer","tag-us","tag-video","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}