The wife of Leonardo Bonucci has posted a furious message to Juventus.
Bonucci left Juve a fortnight ago for Union Berlin after being stripped of the club captaincy and told he was no longer wanted. He is now taking legal action against the club.
Wife Martina Maccari wrote today:
"What do we have left then?
"Not even a squalid, last hug. It was on a rainy morning in Turin that I had to come and look at you. Because looking at you makes me believe that for a moment, perhaps, you can hear me.
"13 years. For thirteen long years you and I have been friends. And you know it. Of those where one is bigger and one is smaller, one is loved by everyone and the other has to struggle to find space for her. Friends drawn by passion, even to antagonism. Friends who don't choose each other but who life brings together, who knows for what strange purpose... You and I shared a passion for the same man, and you (I can confess it now) have always won. You have always been the first thought, you the priority, and I the one with the remaining time. You have always been the one who is there even when you don't see it...
"Just like the friends who always make you feel a little in the shadow, but who in the end make you feel protected. The ones you know you're second but after an unattainable first. The ones you look at and always find the right inspiration.
"Even when things go wrong, she is able to provide the right inspiration and you are there to amaze you every time. It is for this reason, perhaps, that in this love of mine absorbed by osmosis, I often hate you. I hated you in the shadow of the solitude you forced me into with a programmed, calendarized cadence. Beyond the horizon of uncontrollable feelings such as love and hate, I was certain, however, that you would be a beacon forever. That of the right thing at the right time, even if it were the last moment, the one at the end of the time available.
"I thought that despite life and the normal mechanisms of the course of time that we know very well, we would continue to recognize each other. I thought we would be faithful forever to a story that speaks of life, of giving and taking, of sacrifice and gratitude, of work and love, a life story that speaks of a pact of care. Beyond the modern meat grinder, I thought we would continue to care for each other.
"I am very sorry. I won't change my ways by meeting you. I keep the agreements. Losing so much, also giving up what we fought for for so many years.
"Good life".
