I will attempt to make a rational, less emotional post here about Ciro as coach. How I feel about him as a player completely aside.
Ciro is the obvious scapegoat for the current team's obvious ills. It's easy to blame one person for everything that has gone wrong, and Ciro is the most obvious candidate.
On the one hand, he is a complete novice at this and it shows. Even the best coaches have difficult times guiding a club out of a crisis of confidence and form, and Ciro is less equipped than most. Should you throw Saint Guardiola in this spot with Barca, for example, and he suddenly will look a lot less like the man who can walk on water as many believe. (The primary difference being that Guardiola has a lot more resources and a much better squad, so this hasn't come up for him.)
But Ferrara is the focal point for the team. It seems his problems run very deep, namely:
* the team does not really seem motivated by him to win
* he lacks the toolkit to land on a working set of team tactics
* his substitution choices have always been bizarre and counterproductive, no matter what
* He has not shown the creativity to shock the team into different results, such as benching highly-paid, poorly-performing starters in favor of hungrier youth players
That in itself, even if there's a lot more blame to go around than just Ciro, is grounds enough to seek a replacement. There is too much at stake to roll the dice and hope to play catch-up -- no so much in the Europa League, but I have serious worries now about this club if it will even qualify for the CL next season.
Thus, much in the way that a coach like Ferrara needs to make a key substitution to switch a losing match in his favor, the Juve board really need to face the need to change one or two key elements in this club to turn it around. Ciro is perhaps to obvious, but unfortunately I think it is necessary.
While the winter transfer window might not offer a lot of opportunities, it would be worth considering a sale or two, and not just an acquisition, to shake up the dynamic of this horribly under-performing side. The team needs a massive shake-up to salvage the season or risk falling too far behind for a possible recovery that will come too late.
Unfortunately, a lot of passionate fans will want to follow the old Inter route: replace everything, top-to-bottom, as if to start over with a new club. But that's a recipe for continued failure. A few strategic decisions by the board could do a lot to set things in the right direction and leave it up to the team.
The players are worthy of a lot of blame too. We've lacked field leadership big time. DP has been mostly on the bench, and Cannavaro nor Buffon have been effective in the role. This is something we also need to sort out.
