Juventus have sent Fabio Miretti to Beşiktaş on a temporary deal until 30 June 2027, and for once the figures are not a rumour: they sit in a company statement, because the club is listed on the stock exchange. Two million euros as the fee plus 0.1 million in ancillary costs, and the right for the Turkish side to sign him permanently for another 13 million, payable across three financial years. The move is a small one, the mechanism that explains it is the most instructive of the window.
The deal in brief
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Player | Fabio Miretti |
| Born | 3 August 2003 in Pinerolo (23) |
| Position | Central midfielder who breaks into the box, adaptable as an attacking midfielder |
| Height and foot | 1.80 m, right-footed |
| From | Juventus |
| To | Beşiktaş |
| Structure | Paid loan until 30 June 2027, with an option to buy |
| Figures (Juventus statement, 28 August 2026) | 2 million plus 0.1 in ancillary costs, 13 million option across three financial years |
| At Juventus | 106 appearances and 3 goals, 31 of them last season |
An option, not an obligation: the wording matters
The Juventus statement of 28 August uses a precise word, an option. Beşiktaş, in their own announcement, speak of a temporary transfer with an option to buy: the same thing said twice, and it is a right to sign him, not an obligation.
The difference is not a formality. An obligation is a sale deferred, and both clubs already know that in June the player will change hands. A right leaves the decision with the buyer, so on 30 June 2027 Juventus could find Miretti back in the squad having banked nothing beyond the initial 2.1 million. In exchange, they are not budgeting for income that depends on another team’s season.
The instalments are in the statement too: the 13 million option is payable across three financial years. It serves the buyer, because paying it all inside a single year makes any club think twice. Adding the three items together produces the 15.1 million doing the rounds today: it is a calculation, it appears in neither statement and it only holds if the option is exercised.
What an academy graduate is worth on the balance sheet
Here is the part that explains half the transfer market. When a club buys a player, the fee paid goes onto the balance sheet as an asset and is spread across the years of the contract: that is amortisation. If the club sells him before the contract runs out, it compares the sale price with the portion not yet amortised, and only the difference becomes a capital gain.
An academy product carries none of that with him. The costs of the youth set-up are written off year by year as running costs, and the player never entered the accounts with a purchase price: his residual book value is close to zero. Miretti has been at Juventus since he was eight, as the club’s statement recalls, and almost everything that comes in is net profit in the financial year in which the deal closes.
That is why clubs sell their own youngsters even when they would be useful on the pitch: a bought player has to be sold for far more than he cost to produce the same effect on the accounts, while a homegrown one produces that effect at any price.
The midfielder arriving in Istanbul
Miretti is 23, born in Pinerolo on 3 August 2003 into a family from Saluzzo, stands 1.80 m and is right-footed, with a weaker foot he knows how to use. He started out as a central midfielder, in the Juventus youth ranks he was turned into an attacking midfielder because of his eye for goal, and he ended up shaped as a central midfielder who breaks into the box, the one who sets off from the midfield line and attacks the area, with the penalties at his feet.
With the Juventus first team he finished on 106 appearances and 3 goals, the club’s own figure, 31 of them last season. Those 31 appearances are worth, according to public statistical archives, 947 minutes: a little over half an hour a game, the portrait of a player who came on often and started rarely, never settled between central midfield, attacking midfield and a holding role.
The only season with real continuity remains the one at Genoa: 25 league appearances and 3 goals in 2024-2025, including the first brace of his career against Lecce on 14 March 2025, before the dislocated shoulder in the spring that ended his year.
How many minutes he can expect
Beşiktaş are coached by Vincenzo Italiano and in 2026/2027 they are playing on three fronts: the Süper Lig, the domestic cup and the league phase of the Europa League. Three competitions mean rotation, and for someone who has played 947 minutes in a season that is the decisive variable. According to the Turkish press Miretti is the ninth signing of the window and the 206th foreign player in the club’s history: there is no settled hierarchy in midfield. He also links up again with Dušan Vlahović, added to the squad as a free agent on 13 August. The club has not published the shirt number: some profiles already report 21, which was also his number at Juventus last season.
What to watch now
Not the goals. The first thing to watch is the position: if Italiano plays him in central midfield in a three, with the freedom to attack the box, he gives him back the player he was in the youth ranks; if he uses him as a holding midfielder or as a back-up attacking midfielder, the loan will look like the last seasons in Turin.
The second is the spring. An option to buy is only exercised when the performances justify it, and that decision determines whether this stays a 2.1 million deal or becomes the cleanest capital gain on the Juventus balance sheet. The answer arrives on 30 June 2027.
Sources: Juventus company statement and editorial release of 28 August 2026, the Beşiktaş announcement, encyclopaedia entries and public statistical archives, Italian and Turkish press. The total of 15.1 million is an arithmetical sum and not a figure from the clubs, and the expiry of Miretti’s contract with Juventus is not confirmed by an up-to-date company document: the statement of July 2023 referred to 2027, some archives indicate 2028.
Frequently asked questions
Is Miretti's move to Beşiktaş a permanent transfer?
No. It is a temporary transfer until 30 June 2027. The Juventus statement speaks of an option to buy for the Turkish club, that is to say a right and not an obligation.
How much do Juventus take from the deal?
The company statement of 28 August 2026 sets out 2 million euros as the fee plus 0.1 million in ancillary costs, and an option to sign him permanently for a further 13 million payable across three financial years. The total of 15.1 million doing the rounds is an arithmetical sum, not a figure declared by the clubs.
Why does selling an academy player produce almost pure profit?
Because he never entered the accounts with a purchase price to amortise: academy costs are written off year by year as running costs. His residual book value is close to zero, so almost everything the club takes in is net profit.
What shirt number will Miretti wear at Beşiktaş?
The club has not published the number. Some profiles already report 21, which was also his number at Juventus in the 2025-2026 season.
How many games has Miretti played for Juventus?
One hundred and six appearances and 3 goals for the first team according to the figures published by the club, 31 of them last season. Before that he had collected 33 appearances in league and cup for the second team in Serie C, 30 of them in the league with 3 goals.
