7M Features: Juventus secured their 6th straight title already?

Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2016 by 7M Sport

Serie A is far from breaking the summer transfer window spending record, especially nowadays as the transfer market has gone "crazy" already. However, they hit the headlines by producing expensive players in recent years. This somehow testifies Serie A is still able to produce awesome players.

When it comes to a club that boast a long line of great strikers in the modern era, one may suggest Atletico Madrid.

Los Colchoneros are indeed the well-deserved striker factory, producing goal machines like Fernando Torres, Sergio Aguero, Radamel Falcao, Diego Costa and Griezmann.

Juventus, however, also helped to develop some players, which turned out to be profitable investments.

Just check out their actions in this summer-long transfer window:

The first one should be Paul Pogba. The midfielder's return to Manchester United saw Bianconeri pocket about €100m.

And this one also proved a good deal as the club brought in about €10m for Morata's heading home.

Even one year ago, Juventus made €25m after Vidal was back to Bundesliga. And the Chilean midfielder has just scored a goal to help Bayern beat Dortmund 2-0 to win German Super Cup on August.

That's what Juventus do to raise more revenues in recent years——signing prospects from other leagues at low cost, fully developing them before the club are able to place high price tags on these players.

In fact, Bianconeri strengthen themselves not only on a financial level, but also on a sporting level. They signed stars from their domestic big rivals.

Actually, only Napoli and AS Roma can challenge Juventus on Serie A title now with the latter crowned fifth-straight champions of Italy last term.

However, Higuain moved to Juventus from Napoli and so did Pjanic from Roma this summer——acts that deal a severe blow to Juve's nemesis.

The Argentina striker's exit didn't leave tricky questions to manager Maurizio Sarri as captain Hamsik is the one that Napoli truly feed off, driving the squad forward from the center of the midfield. They only need to find a centre-forward to replace Higuain.

And this man is Arkadiusz Milik. The Poland striker joined Napoli from Ajax as Higuain's understudy.

Last season, Milik scored 24 goals and provided 12 assists in 42 games for Ajax. However, 'The next Lewandowski' must do more if he would like to live up to the former Napoli centre-forward's heights——after all, Higuain is the man who broke a 66-year-old Serie A record with his 36th goal of the season on the final day last term.

With regard to AS Roma, they bolstered their defensive line with signings including Juan Jesus, Federico Fazio, and Mario Rui, as well as Barcelona loanee Thomas Vermaelen.

Pjanic's exit, however, could be considered as a huge loss for Giallorossi. He can raise the quality of the midfield, and he is apparently a big threat from set pieces.

In short, Juventus is almost the team to beat in Serie A, like Bayern in Bundesliga. Not only the 6th straight title, even the 7th or 8th straight title is possible. Their relentless triumph will leave them just eye Champions League title.

(7M Kico)