Buffon leaves Juventus: Gianluigi Buffon has announced his departure from Juventus when his contract ends at the end of this season.
The seasoned goalkeeper has not been first choice this season for Pirlo and played only 12 matches across all competitions in the current campaign.
Buffon has made 683 appearances for the Old Lady and won 21 trophies for the Club.
He won his 11th league title last season but has since not played much more for the men from Turin.
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Having moved from Parma in 2001, he played for 17 seasons from 2001-18 with Juventus before moving to Paris Saint Germain for a year.
Buffon rejoined Juventus in 2019 and has since been a part of them. He is yet to decide if retirement beckons and leaves Juventus after 20 seasons in total.
Juventus’ current campaign has been woeful to say the least.
After a 3-0 defeat at home to Milan, the Old Lady are staring at the fact of not finishing in the top 4 for the first time in so many years.
Buffon made only 7 appearances for the club and has been disappointed with the performance.
The Bianconeri stand 5th in the league standings with 69 points. They are a point behind 4th place, Napoli.
Juventus has lacked consistency, match-winning performances and lack of support which cost them the Scudetto this time around.
Inter registered their first league title in over a decade last week.
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Juventus won the Scudetto for 9 consecutive seasons before succumbing to Inter this season.
With no support to Cristiano Ronaldo, Juventus could not fire the goals and create more due to which a title loss was imminent.
