You want Tacchinardi back, just because his name is Tacchinardi. Not because he'd add some new footballing element to our team, because he wouldn't. And yes if we want to make that step up next season, we ARE going to need a star.
Giving your everything for the jersey will
automatically allow you to add some new footballing element to our team.
Sadly, we're no Real Madrid not Chelsea or Inter. We're Juventus, and i'm glad we don't purchase stars like other teams do. We all know how things end at the end.
Under Lippi Tacchinardi was a perfect fit for the tactic. He just needed to position himself in front of the defence(while Davids went after the ball) and offensively he could always let Nedved and others do the work. In DD's formation, he'd be more exposed and you'd see his limitations as we saw them under Capello.
Nobody is expecting Alessio to play 38 consecutive games, like what Capello did to Emerson. Rotation is what should be done in midfield mostly. Take a look at this season, we're running out of players because of injuries. Alessio can be very useful, not to also mention he would add depth for the squad just like Dp, Pavel and Buffon incase he'll remain with us.
However, I think Didier knows Alessio's role better than us. Knowing that Didier was a midfielder, he'd know how to use Alessio.