Italian football club Juventus signing a player, who happens to share the same name as tennis star Carlos Alcaraz, has sparked hilarious reactions from fans of the sport.
On the final day of the transfer window, January 31, Juventus signed Argentine footballer Carlos Alcaraz on loan with an option to buy from Southampton. The Serie A side will pay an initial loan fee of €3.7 million, with the option to buy price reportedly being set at €49.5 million.
While football fans were intrigued by the news, tennis fans took the opportunity to poke fun at their own Carlos Alcaraz, joking about him trading in his racquet for a football.
“I’m not sure why he’s given up tennis, but good luck to him,” a fan posted.
“MASSIVE signing. Maybe he’ll win a few US Opens,” another fan chimed in.
One fan hilariously remarked that the Spaniard’s defeat to Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals of the recently concluded Australian Open had prompted him to switch sports and move to Juventus.
“Bro lost to Zverev in the quarters of the Australian Open and went to Juve,” the fan joked
Meanwhile, tennis writer Bastien Fachan quipped that Jannik Sinner, who has developed a close friendship with the Spaniard, would be unhappy with the World No. 2 abandoning tennis for football.
