Svilar snubs Juventus: For me, only Roma exists
Roma and Serbia goalkeeper has publicly shut down talk of a move to Turin. Roma had already turned down an official bid worth around 50 million euros for him.
- Mile Svilar dismissed talk of a Juventus move in remarks to Italian media on July 28, 2026.
- Roma had already rejected an official bid of 42 million euros plus 8 million in add-ons, around 50 million in total.
- The offer landed ahead of the June 30 deadline for compliance with UEFA financial rules.
- The Friedkin family sees the goalkeeper as central to the project and refused to strengthen a direct rival.
The Juventus question followed Mile Svilar all through July. When it finally reached him in front of the Italian microphones, Roma’s goalkeeper cut it off in two sentences, with no hedging and no diplomatic door left ajar.
“For me, as you should know by now, there’s only Roma,” Svilar said. “I’m focused on giving my best for this shirt, this club, and these fans.”
Asked directly about contact with Turin, he was even shorter. He said he knew nothing about the story, at least not personally, and that he had nothing to add because nobody had asked him anything. For a player whose price tag had been argued over for weeks, that is about the clearest way to close a saga.
The club side of the story was considerably noisier than the player’s. Juventus sent Roma an official bid of 42 million euros plus eight million in bonuses, a package worth roughly 50 million. For a goalkeeper, that is the kind of number that would open negotiations the same afternoon at most clubs. In Rome it opened nothing.
Why did Roma turn down 50 million?
The bid arrived ahead of June 30, the date by which clubs had to settle their obligations under UEFA financial rules. So the Romans had an accounting motive to say yes, because a deal like this would have wiped out a large slice of the problem in a single stroke.
They did not say yes. The club’s owners, the Friedkin family, judged that the money on the table did not match the player’s real value and that Svilar is a central figure in the sporting project rather than a line item for balancing the books. Roma showed the same reflex when Inter chased midfielder Manu Kone, and it has now repeated itself in a more expensive version.
There is a second, purely sporting calculation. Juventus are a direct Serie A rival, and the two clubs also meet in European competition next season. Selling an opponent the goalkeeper who held your defence together last season means losing the same duel twice, once in the market and once on the pitch. Roma clearly did that maths in advance.
What comes next
Svilar goes into the new season as Roma’s undisputed first choice and as a Serbia international, with a place nobody in the dressing room disputes. His delivery in front of the cameras was calm, and that is probably the most telling detail of the whole episode, because a player thinking about leaving does not usually talk that way.
For Juventus the question of who plays in goal is still open, with a month of negotiations spent for nothing. For Roma the task is simpler, to confirm on the pitch what Svilar has already said in words, and that starts with the opening round of the new Serie A season.
Either way, this summer has already answered the question Turin had been asking since June. The answer was short, it took one sentence, and it left no room for interpretation.
So what do you think, will Svilar see out his career in Rome, or is this simply a question postponed until next summer?
