Juventus, Elkann’s reflections on Giuntoli. The Champions ‘strengthens’ the dt but …

It will be an intense week at Juventus, of choices and planning. The seven -day rest granted to the team, expected to Continassa from Monday 2 June to prepare the Club World Cup, allows you to get to the heart of the analyzes on the season just passed and, therefore, on the functioning of the sports area. Last summer there were other expectations on the first Giuntoli championship: the fourth place, which will allow you to participate in the next Champions League complete with a budget useful in the budget, strengthens the position of the manager but not completely consolidated it. If it is true that the manager was very skilled to resize the costs, on the sporting level he missed almost all the set objectives, starting from the qualification for the Champions League’s round of 16 this year and going from the Italian Cup, where the Bianconeri were badly excluded from Empoli in the quarterfinals. The last useful place for the maximum European competition has only come in the last ninety minutes of the championship: in Venice it was another match at heart -pounding, in which Juve had to suffer so much.

MARKET

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On the upper floors of the club, reflections are also on the Giuntoli account. Elkann would have imagined a different development of the season: he is not happy and has not yet dissolved the reserves on the future of the structure. Although the recent statements by Scanavino, his trusted man and managing director of the club, entered the desire to continue planning the future with the current Juve market man. Which has been supporting for some time – an idea, among other things, shared by Tudor, as well as by the same to Bianconero – that the rose should simply be enhanced with 2-3 targeted reinforcements, to be competitive for the Scudetto and for Europe. A thesis that should be married by Conte, in the event that he was the new coach, and who risks jamming in the restricted times that Juve will have in the first part of the market: in the first ten days of June, when the companies engaged in the Club World Championship will be able to operate on transfers, to Continassa it will be necessary to think above all to dispose of the costs of those who have never come to the heart of the project like Douglas Luiz or who remained in Turin. Prize bonus like Vlahovic. The feeling is that for the effect stroke it will be necessary to wait for the second part of the market, with the risk of getting very long as in last summer.

Choices

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So many choices of Giuntoli, on the market and beyond, will now be weighed in firm games. And it will be a decisive moment, inevitably, because, in case of renewed trust, the new starting point of the new Juve cycle would be traced, freezing this year’s mistakes. From the choice of Thiago Motta, then exonerated to make room for Tudor, to the sale at low prices of some young people who soon exploded elsewhere (the Huijsen case is the one that weighs the most), obviously to the season that is not very satisfactory in terms of sports results: there are many themes that will have to be aligned with the desire to carry on the current project, perhaps only with the insertion in the sports area of ​​Chiellini, so far held to the margins. To the issues to be clarified, that of the technician was also added after Tudor’s last exit. The coach demands immediate clarity on the future and has not made words to say that he does not intend to guide the team to the Club World Cup if he will not be confirmed: access to the Champions League has triggered one year more contract for him, but the club will be able to pay a penalty by 30 July. The hot potato is now in the hands of Giuntoli, who certainly cannot free the Croatian technician without the certainty of taking Conte; And without having found a solution for the tournament in the States, even if – after Tudor’s outburst – he seems to have managed to convince the coach to stay up to the club world championship.