Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Even the premier league obsessed ESPN FC is jumping on the Juventus train. :D :beppe:

http://www.espnfc.com/uefa-champion...3123196/juventus-fix-it-even-if-it-aint-broke

Well-run clubs never need to rebuild; they simply reload. It's an old maxim and it's generally true. If you're a dominant side, you maintain that dominance through continuous small changes rather than periodic blow-ups. Get the small changes right and you won't need to rebuild.

But for every rule, there's a counterargument: Juventus' run to the Champions League final, after they dispatched a young and vibrant Monaco side in the semifinals on Tuesday, is Exhibit A. When they take the pitch in Cardiff, assuming Sami Khedira recovers from injury, it could well be that Gianluigi Buffon and Leonardo Bonucci will be the only holdovers from the side that lost the Champions League final to Barcelona two years ago.

Sure, had Giorgio Chiellini not been injured for the 2015 final, it would be three out of 11, but it's still a pretty staggering turnaround in just two seasons. Indeed, 12 of the 18 in the matchday squad that day have now left the club.

Contrast this with their opponents that day, Barcelona, who have shed six. Or, for that matter, Real Madrid, who also lost six players (if you want to count Alvaro Morata, who left and came back, it's seven) from the side who won the trophy in 2014. You have to go all the way back to Chelsea in 2012, five years and five managers ago, to find a Champions League winner that has changed more than Juve have in the past two seasons.

You simply can't weather that much change unless you're a well-run club. And that goes beyond the manager, Massimiliano Allegri, right up to the higher reaches with sporting director Fabio Paratici and chief executive Beppe Marotta.

Not only have they rebuilt on the fly, they've done it twice in two seasons. In the summer of 2015, they lost Carlos Tevez, Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal. Last summer, it was Paul Pogba and Morata.
:delpiero: for Beppe, Paratici, EuroMax
 

Juve FC

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Jul 11, 2016
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Probably mentioned before but so many pundits talk about the money Juve spends to bring in players but they find some real gems on free transfers (Pirlo, Alves, Khedira, Pogba, Coman)
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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We strike a balance between the two, so ultimately we get a lot for the money we spend.

These are San Beppe's biggest cash signings:

€90m Higuain
€40m Dybala
€32m Pjanic
€26m Alex Sandro
€23m Pjaca
€21m Mandzukic
€20m Morata
€18m Matri
€18m Zaza
€15.5m Bonucci
€15m Krasic
€15m Vucinic
€14.9m Isla
€13m Ogbonna
€12m Martinez


Almost all the flops were in those early renovation days. Jury is still out on Pjaca but he should get a couple of seasons considering his age and injury.
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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such a big jump between the first and second...hell the jump from dybala to higuain is higher than every single one except higuain :lol:

went full retard there :tup:
 

Vialli_92

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Mar 7, 2013
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He arrived with Del Neri. Imagine Agnelli kicked out Beppe with Del Neri how different our club could have been and most likely for the worse.

Undoubtedly he has been the catalyst for our success with Conte and Agnelli, they all built the foundations for future success here
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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It's easy to forget that the group of Marotta - Delneri got fricking Sampdoria into 4th and CLQ before we took them, as a package it looked like we were getting one of the highest-regarded sporting directors around and a coach who was coming to a break through point of his career, a bit like how Napoli were thinking when they hired Sarri, who at 56 had coached nobody of note. Didn't turn out that way, Delneri didn't have the personality or invention to coach a club like Juve. It didn't take long for the club to make the right choice, however.
 

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