Football Italia’s 17 September squad report said Andrea Cambiaso remained unavailable for Juventus’ Europa League meeting with NEC despite nearing a return. It named seven players missing because of fitness problems: Cambiaso, Kenan Yildiz, Khephren Thuram, Manuel Locatelli, Jeremie Boga, Juan Cabal and Jeff Ekhator.
The other absences had different causes. Edon Zhegrova and Arkadiusz Milik were not on Juventus’ UEFA list, while Lloyd Kelly was serving a one-game suspension. Weston McKennie returned to the squad and Destiny Elimoghale was called up.
Almost Signed analysis: the ten-player headline overstates the medical problem if read as ten injured players. Seven belonged to the fitness group and three did not. Kelly’s single-match suspension creates a different route back from the two UEFA-list exclusions: recovery alone could not have made all ten available for this European fixture. For a reader comparing domestic and European squad depth, those competition-specific restrictions must stay separate from the injury list.