Italian fans and press would love to be debating their team's World Cup quarter-final right now. Lorenzo Insigne cutting in behind Andrea Belotti? Can Andrea Barzagli squeeze 120 minutes out of his ageing body?
But the Azzurri aren't in Russia. The next best thing to fill these days until the next matches is discussing the potential transfer of the decade: Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus.
Fanciful rumours are a fun part of football, and Serie A does it as well as anyone. Twelve summers ago it was Ronaldinho to Napoli. Three years back people talked up Lionel Messi to Inter. Such talk is usually labelled 'science fiction' here, a more diplomatic way of saying 'utter nonsense.
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