Edon Zhegrova, the Juventus forward, enters the heart of the summer transfer window with his position at the club more precarious than ever — a player whose 2025-26 Serie A campaign produced nothing in the way of goals or assists across 18 appearances, and whose future in Turin has been the subject of active discussion since the early weeks of the off-season.
The numbers are unforgiving context. Eighteen matches, zero goals, zero assists, an average rating of 6.70. An AI overall score of 55 out of 100, with a ceiling assessed at 62. For a forward at 27 — an age when output should be consolidating, not stalling — those figures make a compelling case for the club rather than for the player. Juventus, sitting sixth in Serie A with 68 points from 37 matches under Luciano Spalletti, are a side in structural transition, and Zhegrova's profile does not obviously fit the ambitions of a rebuild.
The club's summer activity reinforces that reading. Juventus have moved quickly in the market, securing Zeki Celik from Roma and pursuing further additions, while Spalletti has been publicly navigating the Vlahovic situation with careful language about conditions and expectations. The broader message from the Bianconeri's front office is one of selective investment and deliberate trimming — and Zhegrova, identified earlier this summer as an asset earmarked for sale, sits squarely in the latter category.
Fiorentina had registered domestic interest in the Kosovar winger, offering a Serie A landing spot that would keep him in Italian football. Whether that interest has hardened into a formal approach, or whether other suitors have entered the picture as pre-season friendlies begin, is not yet clear. What is clear is that Juventus have little incentive to carry a forward with his output profile into another campaign, particularly one in which European competition will demand greater depth and sharper attacking returns.
Zhegrova is not without ability — a potential score of 62 suggests room for improvement under the right conditions — but the gap between ceiling and current output is precisely the problem. A player who contributes nothing in front of goal across 18 Serie A appearances has not made that argument for himself, regardless of what the underlying talent profile suggests.
The pre-season schedule is beginning, with Juventus preparing for early friendlies, and the coming weeks will determine whether Zhegrova travels with the squad as a genuine option or as a player working through his final days in Turin. Spalletti's squads tend to be built on clarity of role; a forward without a goal to his name from last season occupies an uncomfortable ambiguity. The window is open, the market is moving, and Zhegrova's next club is a more pressing question than his next match.