You're being as ridiculous as the Conte haters. As I said Conte is a good man-motivator and a $#@!ty tactician.
But Marotta and Paratici assembled that squad, and gave Conte the talent he needed to win. Are you denying that we spent around 100 million that summer to assemble a squad capable of winning for Conte? We did. He deserves credit for what he did, but without Marotta and Paratici he fails here. No doubt about it.
For a coach to get the best out of a player. That player has to have the potential to begin with. Pirlo is a case where he clearly had the potential (as he has expressed it before for many years) but Conte brought him back to life.
There was much less evidence available that Barzagli was any good. He had one good season in Germany and then he was benched then discarded for free.
Vucinic wasn't having a good time at Roma either.
So yes Marotta obviously brought the players, but don't make it seem like any other coach could have gotten this much out of them. The players that Conte failed to get them to perform has been failing even more ever since they left.
Our own management said that the team was built for a top 3 finish and that by winning the scudetto we had won 3 years ahead of plan.Both Marotta and Conte did not expect things to go that well.
Again instilling a winning mentality and keeping it is not an easy task. Garcia is an example of a coach who breathed new life into the squad but struggled to retain that mentality.
Van Gaal is struggling with doing the same thing with a Mega $ squad. Madrid had a loser mentality against barca and in the CL before Mourinho changed that.
A good squad doesnt achieve results on its own. Certainly not a squad that hasnt challenged for a title for more than 5 years.
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Nah. He's lame for saying he was too fatigued and lacking motivation to go on with Juventus... He needed a sabbatical from coaching for a year he said. And lo and behold, a month later he's the national team coach. He abandoned Juve because he actually thought we had reached our peak and couldn't go any further in Europe. He thought group stage/rof16 was our level. He wanted to go out having broken the Serie a points record and not have to deal with trying to show he could be successful in Europe. He was too terrified he would fail and be exposed as the limited manager he is. So he quit, citing fatigue and motivation.
And then he showed the obvious lie there by joining the national team a month later. He obviously knew he would accept whatever big job came his way, whenever it came his way. His behaviour this summer was disgraceful.
Again when a coach thinks his team has peaked and that this is the best he could achieve with the squad, why the hell do you want him to stay?
Why not give room for another coach that believes he can achieve more with that squad?
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Nah. He's lame for saying he was too fatigued and lacking motivation to go on with Juventus... He needed a sabbatical from coaching for a year he said. And lo and behold, a month later he's the national team coach. He abandoned Juve because he actually thought we had reached our peak and couldn't go any further in Europe. He thought group stage/rof16 was our level. He wanted to go out having broken the Serie a points record and not have to deal with trying to show he could be successful in Europe. He was too terrified he would fail and be exposed as the limited manager he is. So he quit, citing fatigue and motivation.
And then he showed the obvious lie there by joining the national team a month later. He obviously knew he would accept whatever big job came his way, whenever it came his way. His behaviour this summer was disgraceful.
So you are telling me that you'd prefer it if he had come out and said "this squad has peaked, I dont thing this group can achieve anything more. I am out"
Fans would literally kill him for shitting on the team like that. Most people here were bothered when he said we cant compete with the european financial giants.
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Oh boy...
the more things change...
some of the shit certain posters have said about Marotta over the years, unsanctioned and encouraged, totally let off the hook. But when we insult ConteSchettino, all hell breaks loose. Typical double standards from that dastardly mod, @X.