Arturo Vidal, the Juventus midfielder, does not intend to decide his future until he returns to Italy from his holidays.
The 27-year-old has been afforded a break by his current club after competing in the World Cup for Chile, although he continues to be followed by stories linking him with moves to Real Madrid or Manchester United this summer.
Those rumours intensified earlier this month when Antonio Conte elected to step down as head coach in Turin. He has since been replaced by Massimiliano Allegri and Vidal is expected to meet with the Italian first before confirming whether or not he wants to move on. The midfielder first arrived at Juventus in 2011 following a spell with Bayer Leverkusen and has won the Serie A title on three successive seasons.
"It's difficult to speak of other teams when you are already at a top club," said Vidal, who has three years remaining on his contract at the Turing club. "I have won the Serie A title three times and I respect my team-mates. I have heard about the interest shown by Madrid and United in me but there is someone [his agent] who deals with this. The only thing on my mind on is my holiday."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article