{"id":44473,"date":"2026-02-26T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44473"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:19:21","slug":"juventus-to-continue-contract-talks-with-luciano-spalletti-despite-dramatic-ucl-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/champions-league\/juventus-to-continue-contract-talks-with-luciano-spalletti-despite-dramatic-ucl-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus to continue contract talks with Luciano Spalletti despite dramatic UCL exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus have confirmed their intention to continue negotiations over a new contract for head coach Luciano Spalletti, reaffirming their long-term faith in the Italian tactician despite a dramatic exit from the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano reported that Juventus will keep working on a new deal for Spalletti, a stance that has remained unchanged since January. The club\u2019s Director of Football, Giorgio Chiellini, publicly underlined the importance of the renewal talks, insisting that Spalletti\u2019s future has never been in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew deal for Luciano Spalletti has never been in doubt. It\u2019s among our priorities. We will meet soon to discuss deal details,\u201d Chiellini told Sky, highlighting the board\u2019s confidence in the manager\u2019s project and long-term vision.<\/p>\n<p>However, Juventus\u2019 European campaign ended in disappointment after a thrilling but costly playoff tie against Galatasaray. The Italian giants were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League following a dramatic 7-5 aggregate defeat. While Juventus managed to win the second leg 3-2 in Turin, the damage had already been done after conceding heavily in the first leg, leaving them short of qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus have confirmed their intention to continue negotiations over a new contract for head coach Luciano Spalletti, reaffirming their long-term\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":44474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[3686,3196,1823,3708,180,4868,4533,671,490],"class_list":["post-44473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","tag-david-ornstein","tag-exit","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-galatasaray","tag-juventus","tag-luciano-spalletti","tag-new-contract","tag-serie-a","tag-ucl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44475,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44473\/revisions\/44475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}