Alvaro Morata deserves to be more than a bargaining chip for Real Madrid, according to former Juventus team-mate Giorgio Chiellini.
Madrid confirmed on Tuesday they would exercise the buy-back clause included in the deal that took Morata to Turin in 2014.
However, his future remains unclear with his agent Juanma Lopez having claimed there is still interest from Premier League clubs.
Chiellini is confident Morata can make an impact at the Santiago Bernabeu and hopes he is not used as a pawn by the Spanish giants.
Alvaro is a special guy. I m sorry to be greeting him as a former team-mate but I m happy for him and I hope he stays at Real Madrid, said the centre-back.
He deserves to be the nine of Spain and Real Madrid. He does not deserve to be a …