Not all the reinforcements identified to bring Juve back on the road to success have proven useful. In fact, quite the opposite. Of the new arrivals, almost none made a difference in their first year with the Bianconeri, so much so that the leaders of Spalletti’s team are the ones that the club would have liked to keep this year as valid alternatives: a natural consequence, slow growth and not very effective in the short term. Chiellini himself, in the post-match of Juve-Galatasaray, taking stock of the exit from the Champions League, admitted that some showed difficulty in maintaining the level. Here’s who he might have been referring to.
