How is he a failure though? He was a success at both Udinese and Roma.
As for an embarrasment in europe, again, how was a pre juve allegri better than him in europe? He never did anything special with a milan team that was, at least in his first two years, much more superior in terms of personnel to Spalettis Roma.
I agree PI may be exaggerating big time with Spalletti critique, but come on bro. Tactical maturity, balance and flexibility is like night and day of Allegri in Milan and Spalletti, Allegri actually gave Barcelona headaches despite the "glamorous" but shit ageing squad he had. He allways meticolously prepared himself to his opponents tactically speaking. Its not like he suddenly just got used to doing that in Juve. Its just the type of coach he is, despite his flaws (there were ALOT of them in Milan, mediocre coach half of the time, but the tactical backbone and foundation wasnt one of them), his adaptive and flexible and sometimes bit too conservative approach is ideal for CL and big ties in general, tho sometimes he may overdue it (last 30 mins vs Bayern last year, or first leg vs them...). That kind of well rounded approach is why he won league title immediately, 2nd latter (tho this one kind of a choke job) and is fairly consistent in just making sure he is up there competing in most tasks he takes on.
Spalletti in comparison, despite limitation of coaching mediocre shit mentally Roma side, is quite hinged on his approach and does little else to improve to compete closer, and in his approach his team just loses it if that approach doesnt work. And I am yet to notice him adapting to scenarios of a big game. This is not the coach we need to do go far in CL and to replace Allegri IMO. He seems to improved bit tactically this season, more conservative nuance, but still too naive and blase for my liking. Dont see much balance besides good position and attacking and hope opponents dont do much to upset them, even when they do he does nothing to change it (thats why they WALK over him in CL, weaker sides too, just not the famous Man U game). I mean just watch his last game vs Napoli, yeah he had couple injuries, but the tactic he chose was lolsy, 4 CBs that made their width nonexistant and completely overrun midfield, but STILL choosing to play high line that got fvcked over. Didnt adapt shit either, as he doesnt in most games. Napoli are better, and we are too ofcourse, but every time we faced him too he rarely actually suprises you tactically speaking to close the gap between us.
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