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Diego blasts Juve’s Marotta
Thursday 2 September, 2010
Juventus reject Diego has attacked director general Beppe Marotta for his transfer dealings over the summer.

Diego was one of numerous players shipped out of the club by the official after Marotta, who arrived from Sampdoria at the end of last term, was asked to rebuild the Old Lady.

Although Diego was seemingly sold for tactical reasons as he didn’t fit in Gigi Del Neri’s 4-4-2 system, he’s told the Gazzetta dello Sport that Marotta and not the Coach is to blame for his exit.

“Del Neri told me that I was a part of the project in May and also after the Trofeo TIM and that made me happy,” he said.

“However, I looked at Marotta and understood that he was working in another direction. He was doing everything possible to sell me.”

Diego was sold last week to Wolfsburg for an initial €15m, just a year after Juve paid Werder Bremen €24m for his services.

“My sale has cost the club financially,” the Brazilian added. “Marotta doesn’t know how to treat champions like myself and David Trezeguet.

“If Marotta had comported himself in a different manner with me then we both could have worked on a move and Juve would have netted more money.”

Not only did Diego criticise Marotta for his own sale, but he also blasted the transfer guru for his overall mercato strategy.

“Marotta decided to sell me because he wants just Italians and that is the wrong road to go down,” he warned.

“Juventus have made a mistake with their signings, a lot of good players have arrived but no champions.”
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RAMI-N

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Why did he buy Krasic?
Why did he buy Martinez?
Why did he get Traore?

As I said, sour grapes.
:tup:

It remains to be seen...

Diego: " a Dzeko ho detto vai alla Juve "

:tup:
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Krasic, Traoré and Martínez while showing a huge interest in Dzeko.
again :tup:

Martinez already played in Italy so he counts for at least half an italian player
No, he doesn't :D
 
Mar 10, 2009
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I call it sour grapes.

How so? What he's saying is the truth, the management did come out several times and say that he was in there plans, before they got rid of him. It was betrayal at it's finest, regardless how good diego actually was, and don't get me started with the whole giovinco incident :sergio:
 

Trezegol17

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Nov 1, 2006
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Perhaps it would be much better if we were FC Internazionale?
Tthere aren't enough talented italian players to build a championship team. We always had some foreigners : Platini,Montero,Thuram,Zidane,Nedved,Trezeguet and they brought us scudetto's and 2 CL. While the main core should be italian some players from outside Italy can do wonders for us and yes that would include Diego too.
 

Alen

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“Marotta decided to sell me because he wants just Italians and that is the wrong road to go down,” he warned.
Sour grapes and I'm pretty sure that Diego wasn't sold just because he isn't Italian, but there is something in this sentence that I fear is true.

The ItalJuve revolution, strong concentration on Italian players is something that our board did admit, isn't it? And just like Diego, I too think that RIGHT NOW it is a wrong way to go.
And in order to create an ItalJuve, a team with 8-9 Italians in the starting line-up and as many or more on the bench, we will indeed have to get rid of many non-Italians and buy Italians in their place.

Right now we have only 8 non-Italians in the 25 men squad. In 2008/09 we had 14. Even in serie B we had more than 8 non-Italians. The last time we had 8 or less foreigners was in 1996/97, and it was only because there was a limit on non-Italians a couple of years ago and teams still didn't have a chance to buy many foreigners. After that Moggi started bringing quality foreigners which made the team strong.

As for the 8 non-Italians that we have, 1 is a 3rd choice goalkeeper, Salihamidzic won't really get to play, Grygera is a bench player, Traore is on loan and probably a sub to De Ceglie. I doubt that we will have less than 8 Italians in the first team. It feels as if it's 1994 when only 3 non-Italians could play at the same time.
 

Gustav

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The ItalJuve revolution, strong concentration on Italian players is something that our board did admit, isn't it?
Yea, this is what Marotta said: "Innanzitutto continuando a investire sui giovani, meglio se italiani. Da sempre la Juventus è il serbatoio della Nazionale, vogliamo continuare ad esserlo."
 

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