Spalletti-Juve: meeting today, contract offered until the end of the season

Now that Igor Tudor is no longer the Juventus coach, all that remains is to wait for the end of the game on the name of his successor. A challenge, strangely, an open one – curious that a club like Juventus didn’t announce his successor in the minutes in which he announced his dismissal – and a challenge destined to close in a few hours. Tomorrow evening at the Stadium against Udinese, the Juventus helmsman will be Massimo Brambilla from the home team Next Gen. From Thursday, at Continassa, the technical leadership of the club will be in new hands: Luciano Spalletti is on the run in the club’s approval. The leader from Certaldo has a great, great desire to take back the scene in his own way: erase the afternoon of June 29th a year ago – the absolute zero of his Italy in Berlin with Switzerland in the round of 16 of a failed European Championship – and update a path, however, full of good news and exploits.

encounter

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Spalletti has already spoken with Juventus and, this morning, he will speak in person with the next Juventus CEO Damien Comolli: if the irreparable on an empathetic level does not happen between the two, the agreement could lead to white smoke. The former Italian coach has rejected offers from Turkey and Arabia – it’s not the time for him to go abroad – but Juve’s interest has given him the adrenaline of the past: for this reason, the Tuscan coach will not raise barricades in front of a possible contract until the end of the season with automatic renewal of one or two years in case of arrival in the top four. Spalletti, as an external observer, was convinced of the goodness of the Juventus squad because he understood how the team’s potential could be higher: in his career, Luciano has gone through all kinds of modules and difficulties, variables that make him appreciate the flexibility of several of the performers at Continassa. Getting back into the game and doing it with the mission of giving meaning to one of the most evocative revolutions around is, for Spalletti, the challenge he is looking for because staying on the sidelines does nothing but throw salt on the blue wounds. “I inject the poison myself… I disappointed the Italians, but now I have changed”, repeats a man who, at the helm of the national team, would have liked to conquer the world.

the others

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Igor Tudor leaves one morning at the end of October through his own faults and the responsibilities of others: not giving him the assistance of a presence or a voice in the most delicate moment left him alone and exposed to the four winds. Since yesterday, Juve has added the economic weight of a new coach and a new staff to its budget as it did last March, when Thiago Motta was shown the door with his men. And, Juve, will add, perhaps already today, the economic weight of a new contract for the bench of the immediate future: the capital increase at the gates will also serve for this. Luciano Spalletti takes off in pole position, behind him the starting grid is reduced to a single row: Raffaele Palladino and, further away, Roberto Mancini try to warm up the engine. The former coach of Monza and Fiorentina is on the list of the sporting director at Continassa, François Modesto: Palladino would represent a low-cost bet, but for this very reason something very risky when making the wrong choice once again would be unforgivable. Modesto and Palladino lived the experience together in Brianza and the Juventus manager wouldn’t mind starting a period side by side again. Beyond Spalletti there is Palladino, beyond Palladino here is Mancini: the coach of the Wembley triumph at the 2021 European Championships would embrace the Juve project without hesitation, but the club has not gone further than a few surveys in the last few hours.

champions

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The post-Tudor game has begun and will end soon, very soon: the acceleration on the road to Igor’s dismissal is due to a calendar that gives no respite and which includes, next Tuesday, the fourth match in the first phase of the Champions League against Sporting Lisbon at the Stadium, a match not to be missed in order not to compromise the path in Europe after the two points from three outings achieved so far. Tudor leaves the scene at the awakening of the Roman night: a defeat, the one against Lazio, the result of yet another tactical and individual distraction. “I never take steps backwards, I take them forwards”, the Croatian’s last words. The step backwards is thunderous, Juve’s crisis is evident: Spalletti is ready to take on his shoulders a reality yet to be discovered. Luciano da Certaldo is in pole position in the reflections of Comolli and surrounding areas: the green light to speak came directly from above, from John Elkann. White smoke is expected today, tomorrow at the latest: the former coach of the disappointing, last, European Championship is driven by the desire for revenge towards a world that has put him in crisis.