Since the interest of the Juventus of Turin in Alvaro Morata, from Italy he made sure that it was a request from Andrea Pirlo, Bianconnero coach, and who was a teammate of the Madrid striker in his previous stage at Vecchia Signora.
Well, a couple of months later, La Gazzetta dello Sport ensures that Morata, concentrated with Spain, where he has shown his colors, was not, far from it, the coach's first option. Neither is the second.
Because according to this medium, the plans Pirlo they were going the other way. The great desired by the exalted midfielder, who hung up his boots relatively recently, was Edin dzeko. Roma wanted Milik, from Naples, for the Bosnian, but finally the arrival of the Pole did not close, so they did not go for Dzeko.
Furthermore, Pirlo also looked towards the Sassuolo, where he liked very much Manuel Locatelli, but the club asked for 40 million euros to let him leave, an amount that they were not willing to pay in Turin, where they preferred to close a loan with him Atlético de Madrid by a striker who, despite Pirlo's initial desire, is performing perfectly at Juventus.