Next Serie-A clap
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“Fino Alla Fine” is the club motto of Juventus Turin, “to the end”. Untested determination and mentality, fight until the end – and win. It shaped many successful phases of the old lady, most recently the nine championships between 2012 and 2020. After a few developmental years, coach Thiago Motta was supposed to commit Juventus to the top after a historical season from FC Bologna. The squad received a completely new face for this. Although not all the desired transfers worked and you were not constantly good over the season, but you thought you were on the right track most of the time. Especially after the 1-0 against Archrival Interior in mid -February. However, the results after that allow the project to be shaken.
The victory in the derby d’Italia was followed by the Champions League off to PSV, the Coppa-ITInia-out against Empoli (!) And in series A two clapping against Atalanta (0: 4) and now Florence (0: 3). FC Bologna, which had so many well-known departures, for the time being, the Bianconeri displaced from the Champions League ranks. Due to the financial scope of non-participation, the premier class is the most important season goal. Has the experiment with the talented, but has already failed at this level, motta? While sports director Cristiano Giuntoli, brought out of Naples, rejected a loss ago before the end of the season, the opinions between the community and our transfer market experts differ.
“We all have to stick together in such moments. “Our goal is to qualify for the next Champions League. Seven goals in two consecutive games had not existed for Juventus in Serie A since 2011. The 0: 4 against Atalanta was the highest home defeat since 1967.
Motta, which rejected a resignation, also conjured up unity. The fact that the former Italian international could have lost the cabin has not been caution in the traditionally emotional Italian sports press since Sunday evening. The fact that the ultras have completely stopped supporting the team for some games and sometimes even whistled their own players should help. Against Atalanta, the Allianz Stadium had an atmosphere like a preparatory game in the summer training camp. Association icon Aleessandro Del Piero exhibited a devastating judgment with regard to “Fino Alla Fine”: “The worst is that there was no reaction to the opponent’s attacks.
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With a point cut of 1.67 in 42 competitive games, Motta has the weakest value of a Juve trainer since Luigi Delneri, who finished the 2010/11 season to seventh. Nevertheless, Aniello Luciano, Lead of Content Italy at the transfer market, is certain: “If there is no further debacle, I think the Dismagement Thiago Mottas is difficult until the end of the championship. In the course of the season, the Juves squad value climbed by 80 million to 645 million euros. In the league you put the second most valuable team behind Inter – no other squad increased anymore. On March 25th there are new market values in series A.
Italy expert Luciano says: After the exclusion from the European Cup, the UEFA has been observed for the transfers made in the summer-this would not be possible with the achievement of the Champions League. Or: A change of trainer would mean that you start again and start from the front.
Among Allegri, who had his second term among the old lady between 2021 and 2024, the performance was usually more stable. The 57-year-old has not exactly committed to modern football, the offensive or at least fast, effective switching. Luciano continues: “Hence the choice of a trainer like Thiago Motta and Cristiano Giuntoli as sports director who is committed to the difficult task of reducing the team’s salaries and rejuvenating them without affecting their competitiveness.”
The rejuvenation is certainly an argument that must be considered when evaluating the current services. With an average age of 25.4, Juventus has the fourth youngest squad of Serie A, only from Parma, Hellas and Lecce, which play against relegation. Experienced players, remember Gianluigi Buffon or Giorgio Chiellini, were always the axis at the record champion in the most successful times. However, this cannot serve as an excuse, with Teun Koopmeiners (27), Douglas Luiz (26) and Nico González (26), internationally experienced professionals in the best age for 142.7 million euros, the obligation to buy for the Argentine. So far, they have not yet met their own leadership claim due to injuries.
At the same time, desired transfers could not be realized as that of Riccardo Calafiori (22), while long -time top performers, large talents or players went out of youth to realize the upheaval: by Moise Kean (25), who is in Florence in the form of his life, via Federico Chiesa (27) and Nicolò Fagioli (24), on the motif in the round, to Dean Huijsen (19), who became Spanish international in Bournemouth.
“In my opinion, Motta has not completely failed at the tactical level, rather the misjudgments at Douglas Luiz and Koopmeiners weigh heavily,” says Luciano. “The difficulties of the Brazilian and especially the Dutchman, who never felt comfortable, delayed the team’s growth and forced the coach to look for new, not always convincing solutions. has no longer won the SCUDETTO at the beginning of a trip.
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Patience of the Juventus fans with coach Thiago Motta at the end
The patience and hope of a refreshing style of play as well as the installation of the great talents such as Kenan Yıldız (19), Samuel Mbangula (21) and Francisco Conceição (22) seem to be at the end of the Juventus fans. “0: 7 in the last two games. Bianconero “Donandolini” is still the case. Completely failed from summer.
User “Davie-Snow” approaches the matter a little less emotionally, but also admits that he had hoped “to this day (Sunday, note, editor)” “that we still create the turnaround under Motta.” However, he has to admit that Bologna has always been able to recognize. Your own player, but you don’t need to take a lot of security with a young team. Yıldız, Mbangula, González, Conceição or Koopmeiners leaves freedom and behind the players so that the team is well staggered and compact. Because defensive we basically have the right players (Kalulu, Veiga, Gatti, Costa, Cambiaso, Thuram, Locatelli) stable. “
Wait. The defeat must first sink, the decisions are made. Now it’s 2 weeks a break and during this time you should have a candidate ready, if you decide against Motta.
If you don’t find a suitable candidate, you have to sit out until the end of the socket and hope that the CL qualification will be achieved.
Either way, you should separate from Motta at the end of the season and finally get a real trainer who with passion …
While Mancini is discussed as an alternative, another name appears in the Italian press even more often: Gian Piero Gasperini. The 67-year-old has led Atalanta to the top of series A with intensive and attractive football in the past ten years and victory in the Europa League. He, who was born in Grugliasco near Turin and was in the Juve youth for a long time as a player and coach, could leave Bergamo in summer, then his contract expires. The signature under a new working paper last excluded Gasperini, only the activation of a clause for extension by one year was still possible.
However, as with Motta, patience should also be present at Gasperini and any missteps should be allowed. Inter Milan signed him in 2011, a year after the triple and the exit of José Mourinhos. After five games he had to go again. “As far as Gasperini is concerned, I am convinced that he can also implement his ideas with this Juventus team,” says Serie-A-Expert Luciano. “But the argument is always the same: Rome was not built in one day and Atalanta was not.