Andrea Pirlo (39 Viewers)
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Won't be that upset to lose the league as long as I see a definitive progression in the team's play and hopefully going far in the CL but hard to see that with Pirlo.
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Pirlo is like exact opposite of an authoritarian and right now this group of players need an authoritarian coach. A coach ready to whoop your ass if you underperform.
Guy starts his Italian groupies all the time and gives them as many minutes as possible. I even predicted this at the start of the season. I really wish some senior players retire/leave the club. They are a huge influence on the club culture, sometimes a bit too much for my liking. I am sure they were overecstatic when Pirlo was announced as coach.
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Pirlo is like exact opposite of an authoritarian and right now this group of players need an authoritarian coach. A coach ready to whoop your ass if you underperform.
Guy starts his Italian groupies all the time and gives them as many minutes as possible. I even predicted this at the start of the season. I really wish some senior players retire/leave the club. They are a huge influence on the club culture, sometimes a bit too much for my liking. I am sure they were overecstatic when Pirlo was announced as coach.
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We have dropped too many easy games this season...sure we can beat milan inter and napoli and that should make us win the league. However my fear is that we may win against them but drop points to lower teams.
I really wanted a consecutive 10 scudetti. I can't see that ever being matched.
I actually think we will go a long way in the CL. For some reason we find it easier than we do in Serie A.
20 odd games as manager for pirlo...i think he is doing ok...i can't see how sacking him now will help the team...a new manager will just need more time to implement his style which won't help right now.
I really wanted a consecutive 10 scudetti. I can't see that ever being matched.
I actually think we will go a long way in the CL. For some reason we find it easier than we do in Serie A.
20 odd games as manager for pirlo...i think he is doing ok...i can't see how sacking him now will help the team...a new manager will just need more time to implement his style which won't help right now.
Watching the games unfold today and it struck me. The biggest thing really that is needed to win a title is motivation, you look at inter, and Milan. In my opinion two teams who are man for man a lot weaker than our team. Yet they grind out results and get the win they need.
This season for the first time in many were not seeing that from Juve. Is that Pirlo’s fault, or is that just 9 years of complacency? There’s a reason 9 titles in a row was a record...
There is nothing more dangerous than success. Pirlo is not perfect, he’s not close to it, but clearly our era is over and we’re starting a new one. Next season probably needs to be the season we use to judge Pirlo. We still need to go for the league but we need to understand this is not a given when there are teams with far greater motivation
This season for the first time in many were not seeing that from Juve. Is that Pirlo’s fault, or is that just 9 years of complacency? There’s a reason 9 titles in a row was a record...
There is nothing more dangerous than success. Pirlo is not perfect, he’s not close to it, but clearly our era is over and we’re starting a new one. Next season probably needs to be the season we use to judge Pirlo. We still need to go for the league but we need to understand this is not a given when there are teams with far greater motivation
If someone is a leader, he will step up eventually. I think Buffon's role is more of a propping the team, sharing his experience and helping young players make transition. He accepted a bench role and doesnt want captaincy. But I can seehow player like Bonucci would cause problems if Pirlo sidelines him for a while.
Not really a fair comparison though and I’m not trying to defend Pirlo but not every coach have a world class all around squad available to him as Zidane did on his first 3 seasons.
He was set with the best talent around from the get go in every area of the pitch. He will probably never have such a complete set of players again and had he failed it would’ve been monumental.
He gets a lot of praise but since you mentioned Arteta I’d like to see what Zidane could’ve done differently in his place at Arsenal with that mediocre squad. Having said all that I think you’re right that Pirlo will end up damaging his career, should’ve started from the bottom and worked his way up.
He was set with the best talent around from the get go in every area of the pitch. He will probably never have such a complete set of players again and had he failed it would’ve been monumental.
He gets a lot of praise but since you mentioned Arteta I’d like to see what Zidane could’ve done differently in his place at Arsenal with that mediocre squad. Having said all that I think you’re right that Pirlo will end up damaging his career, should’ve started from the bottom and worked his way up.
Paratici mentioned to win the league you have to win around 30 games. I think that´s accurate. So we´ve dropped points in 7 already, we got 3 more to blow after the break.
That´s actually the same as in 15-16, we dropped points in 7 games before Christmas but only 2 after.
We do have the players to pull it off, it´s all on Pirlo. Just goes to show how important the manager is.
That´s actually the same as in 15-16, we dropped points in 7 games before Christmas but only 2 after.
We do have the players to pull it off, it´s all on Pirlo. Just goes to show how important the manager is.
