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Buffon agent insists Juventus contract will be "formality"

The agent of Gigi Buffon says Juventus contract talks will be a formality.

The 36 year-old is ready to play on next season.

"It is a formality, like Marotta said," Silvano Martina told Sportitalia.

"Now, there's such a relationship between Gigi and the club that he's no longer just a player for them. They're also making plans for the future

"His objective is to appear at a sixth World Cup, and he'll become the only player in history to have done so. "A player needs to set themselves goals. When I played, there was the great Dino Zoff, who was at [Buffon's] age, and physically I see Buffon much stronger than Zoff.

"It goes without saying that with the contracts he signed in previous years, a handshake was enough between him and the President."

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