Vicario Dropped From Spurs Pre-Season Tour as Juventus Transfer Links Surface

First mention — filed under speculative.

Guglielmo Vicario has been linked with a move to Juventus following a notable selection decision at Tottenham, as reported by Football Italia on 23 July.

Spurs have omitted the Italian goalkeeper from their pre-season touring squad for fixtures in New Zealand and Australia. Football Italia reports that the decision to leave Vicario behind has strengthened Juventus’s hopes of pursuing a transfer, though no talks have been disclosed and no fee or contract details are in circulation at this stage.

This is a first-mention card — the Juventus link is unconfirmed and rests on a single tier-3 source. Standard reported/unconfirmed framing applies throughout.

What moved: Tottenham’s pre-season squad selection, per Football Italia, is the material that places this card on the board. The inference is logical — a goalkeeper absent from a major tour is at minimum worth monitoring — but inference is all it is at this point. No Italian outlet, no English broadsheet, and no club source has confirmed that Juventus are in formal contact with Tottenham.

What’s left before the next stage: Any confirmation of direct contact between the clubs, or a corroborating report from a higher-tier outlet, would warrant moving this card to [TALKS]. Until then, it sits where the sourcing puts it.

Socceroos/Matildas note: Vicario is Italian-capped and carries no direct national-team relevance for Australia, though the irony of Tottenham touring Australian soil while their goalkeeper is linked with a departure is not lost on the local audience.