There was a time Italy has a surplus of talents, esp in midfield and defense and they could choose the most in form players from the best Italian teams and could only come to field a strong first eleven to cope with the NT standards.
Now the NT is forced to make so many compromises and in some places the subs are serie B material...
If this NT would compete in today's serie A, it would have ranked 5th or smth...
Although i still support them and still want them to go through, as far as our Juventus is concerned, i don't want to see us suffer the same fate. That's why i insist that this timeframe is not appropriate for an ItalJuve project and such obsessions will only hurt us. Spain easily has Barca or RM level and what do we have to field against them? Immobile and Candreva? And if this goes sideways, who we gonna call? Bernardeschi? Really?
The wings and forward line are particularly bad.
Veratti and De Rossi are the prized talents we ought to hunt, but we failed to get, the rest is just meh. We should not be so desperate to sign the next Spinazzola and Bernardeschi, as they obviously hold no water against serious CL competition...