Trezeguet to stay with Juventus

The French striker will stay with the crisis-torn club, but his compatriot Patrick Vieira will join Inter Milan.

French striker David Trezeguet is staying with Juventus but the path has been cleared for compatriot Patrick Vieira to join Inter Milan, the Turin club's director general said.

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"David Trezeguet will stay at Juventus next season," Jean-Claude Blanc said.

"The departure of Patrick Vieira for Inter Milan will be Juventus' last sale this summer," Blanc said, adding that "everything was settled between the two clubs".

Juventus were last week stripped of the Serie A titles they won in 2005-06 and in 2004-05 and relegated to the second division with a 17-point penalty for match-fixing.

Players Emerson, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta have all already quit the club.

But Trezeguet is set to join Alessandro Del Piero, Pavel Nedved and Gianluigi Buffon in sticking with the crisis-torn Turin outfit.