The pair looked to be heading for free agency this summer but Goal can confirm extension talks have long been in the works
Giorgio Chiellini and Gianluigi Buffon are set to sign new deals with Juventus, sources close to the club have revealed , with the Italian veterans having been heading towards the end of their current contracts at the end of June.
It is understood that proposals to keep the long-serving pair at the Juventus Stadium have been in the works for quite some time and would already have been completed had the coronavirus pandemic not called a halt to sport the world over.
Buffon, who has spent the majority of his career with the Old Lady after signing from Parma in 2001, returned to the club after a solitary season with Paris Saint-Germain and fully accepts that he will be playing back-up to Wojciech Szczesny despite being a club icon.
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