So funny story here. I’m living in The Netherlands and there’s a commentator here who’s been covering Serie A matches for ages. Dutch members know him for sure (Emiel Schelvis), he’s kinda annoying to listen to at times, but knows basically every player in Serie A.
So about 2 weeks ago I was in the pharmacy and there was this guy in line behind me. I didn’t even noticed him, but my son was doing very annoying and because of him I dropped some stuff, and there was the commentator suddenly helping me picking up those things.
Outside we started a conversation, really nice guy in real life. We’ve been talking for ~15 minutes. Mostly agreed on most points, we talked about Kulu, Benta, Pirlo, Ronaldo, Dybala and some specific matches like Porto and Fiorentina (the big loss). But also the change this club went trough in the past years.
The ‘big’ news from that conversation is that he said that De Ligt told him that there are discussions in the dressing room between the younger and older generation. Tbh I didn’t had the guts to ask where and when he spoke to him and today I’m still doubting a bit if he literally spoke to De Ligt (its perfectly possible as commentator tho, but you never know maybe it’s some rumor and he was just flexing against some random guy he just met), but it would kinda explain the mentality this team is showing on the pitch.
And I’m doubting his story because I’ve never seen some Italian newspaper reporting it, never saw someone at Sky saying something like that, and I guess that Italian media would be all over a rumor like that.
Btw I don’t want to build a reputation as fake guru or some internet troll, apparently I’m living in the same area as him (I moved here since december), I’ve been doubting to post it here as I don’t want to give a wrong impression, but it’s stuff to think about, because our current situation is fucked up and somewhere it wouldn’t be strange to hear that there are problems in the dressing room. Take it with a grain of salt, but it’s nice to share it with some other Juventini imo.