Calcio Debate: Are Juve Fans Unhappy With Gigli, Blanc, Secco & Ranieri?
Juventus’ Champions League qualification hopes are in the balance following the loss to Fiorentina. Carlo Garganese would like to know if the Bianconeri supporters are happy with how the club is being run.
Yesterday afternoon’s 3-2 home defeat to Fiorentina brought a furious reaction from Goal.com’s Juventus readers.
“Sack Ranieri”, “Secco please go”, “Juventus board resign”, “Gigli you haven’t got a clue” – these were just a handful of the kind of comments left by angry tifosi.
In truth this is the feeling that most Juve supporters have had for a quite a long time now – they simply are not happy with how the club is being run.
Coach Claudio Ranieri has taken much of the flack as ultimately the buck stops with him.
‘The Tinkerman’ has been praised by those higher than him for leading Juventus to third place on their first season back in Serie A.
Frankly this is rubbish. Even though Juve lost a herd of world-class players following the Calciopoli crisis, they still retained a host of brilliant and experienced players, including the old guard of Gianluigi Buffon, David Trezeguet, Mauro Camoranesi, Alessandro Del Piero and Pavel Nedved, who would walk into any other Serie A squad. This is the core of the team, and when you add the likes of Vincenzo Iaquinta and Giorgio Chiellini to the mix, how it can possibly be considered an achievement to finish in the top four I do not know.
And even this is not a formality. Fiorentina have closed to within one point of Juve following their victory yesterday, while Milan are only five points back in fifth. Indeed only third place will guarantee qualification for next season’s Champions League. If the Rossoneri win the competition this campaign (their past record over the past five years suggests they could go close), whilst finishing out of the top four in Serie A, then the fourth placed team that could be Juve will be forced into the UEFA Cup.
This would be disastrous for Juve. Gianluigi Buffon would undoubtedly consider his future, so would Mauro Camoranesi and David Trezeguet, Pavel Nedved would retire, while the chances of recruiting top-class players in the summer transfer market would diminish.
Not that the current sporting director, Alessio Secco, would be capable of recruiting anyone good anyway.
Secco is quite possibly the worst transfer director I have ever seen in my life (if anyone knows anyone worse please tell me). His record, to put it nicely, is quite laughable.
Since replacing the king of transfer gurus Luciano Moggi in 2006, Secco has spent in the region of €40m on the following four players: Jean-Alain Boumsong, Tiago Mendes, Sergio Almiron, and Momo Sissoko. The first three all flopped massively, while many feel Sissoko will follow along this same route.
"If I’d have been in charge with the transfer budget that was made available last summer, Juventus would now be fighting for the Scudetto,” Moggi declared last week.
And he is absolutely right.
With the core of players listed above that Juve already had at their disposal, all they really needed was to spend their money on a top-class centre back and top-class creative centre midfielder and certainly they could have been challenging for the Scudetto.
However surely all of the blame cannot be directed at Secco for these disastrous transfer operations. If the sporting director is incompetent, should he not be replaced by those higher up than him?
Giovanni Cobolli Gigli and Jean-Claude Blanc have come out and supported Secco, saying he will be in charge of transfers next season.
So who will be on Juve’s shopping list for next season? Well Titus Bramble will come in at centre back, Emile Heskey will add some firepower up front, while Nicky Butt will be the answer to the Bianconeri’s desperate shortage of defensive centre midfielders.
Outsiders may laugh but the majority of Juventus supporters I have spoken to, are all bitterly opposed to how the club is being run.
There just doesn’t seem to be a decent structure in place, starting from Gigli as President, right through to Ranieri as coach.
The days of Gianni Agnelli and the brilliant Triade of Moggi, Giraudo and Bettega are long gone. The Triade were loved by the fans, first and foremost because they were brilliant at what they did.
The current management have shown few signs that they could ever live up to these high standards.
Carlo Garganese
Juventus’ Champions League qualification hopes are in the balance following the loss to Fiorentina. Carlo Garganese would like to know if the Bianconeri supporters are happy with how the club is being run.
Yesterday afternoon’s 3-2 home defeat to Fiorentina brought a furious reaction from Goal.com’s Juventus readers.
“Sack Ranieri”, “Secco please go”, “Juventus board resign”, “Gigli you haven’t got a clue” – these were just a handful of the kind of comments left by angry tifosi.
In truth this is the feeling that most Juve supporters have had for a quite a long time now – they simply are not happy with how the club is being run.
Coach Claudio Ranieri has taken much of the flack as ultimately the buck stops with him.
‘The Tinkerman’ has been praised by those higher than him for leading Juventus to third place on their first season back in Serie A.
Frankly this is rubbish. Even though Juve lost a herd of world-class players following the Calciopoli crisis, they still retained a host of brilliant and experienced players, including the old guard of Gianluigi Buffon, David Trezeguet, Mauro Camoranesi, Alessandro Del Piero and Pavel Nedved, who would walk into any other Serie A squad. This is the core of the team, and when you add the likes of Vincenzo Iaquinta and Giorgio Chiellini to the mix, how it can possibly be considered an achievement to finish in the top four I do not know.
And even this is not a formality. Fiorentina have closed to within one point of Juve following their victory yesterday, while Milan are only five points back in fifth. Indeed only third place will guarantee qualification for next season’s Champions League. If the Rossoneri win the competition this campaign (their past record over the past five years suggests they could go close), whilst finishing out of the top four in Serie A, then the fourth placed team that could be Juve will be forced into the UEFA Cup.
This would be disastrous for Juve. Gianluigi Buffon would undoubtedly consider his future, so would Mauro Camoranesi and David Trezeguet, Pavel Nedved would retire, while the chances of recruiting top-class players in the summer transfer market would diminish.
Not that the current sporting director, Alessio Secco, would be capable of recruiting anyone good anyway.
Secco is quite possibly the worst transfer director I have ever seen in my life (if anyone knows anyone worse please tell me). His record, to put it nicely, is quite laughable.
Since replacing the king of transfer gurus Luciano Moggi in 2006, Secco has spent in the region of €40m on the following four players: Jean-Alain Boumsong, Tiago Mendes, Sergio Almiron, and Momo Sissoko. The first three all flopped massively, while many feel Sissoko will follow along this same route.
"If I’d have been in charge with the transfer budget that was made available last summer, Juventus would now be fighting for the Scudetto,” Moggi declared last week.
And he is absolutely right.
With the core of players listed above that Juve already had at their disposal, all they really needed was to spend their money on a top-class centre back and top-class creative centre midfielder and certainly they could have been challenging for the Scudetto.
However surely all of the blame cannot be directed at Secco for these disastrous transfer operations. If the sporting director is incompetent, should he not be replaced by those higher up than him?
Giovanni Cobolli Gigli and Jean-Claude Blanc have come out and supported Secco, saying he will be in charge of transfers next season.
So who will be on Juve’s shopping list for next season? Well Titus Bramble will come in at centre back, Emile Heskey will add some firepower up front, while Nicky Butt will be the answer to the Bianconeri’s desperate shortage of defensive centre midfielders.
Outsiders may laugh but the majority of Juventus supporters I have spoken to, are all bitterly opposed to how the club is being run.
There just doesn’t seem to be a decent structure in place, starting from Gigli as President, right through to Ranieri as coach.
The days of Gianni Agnelli and the brilliant Triade of Moggi, Giraudo and Bettega are long gone. The Triade were loved by the fans, first and foremost because they were brilliant at what they did.
The current management have shown few signs that they could ever live up to these high standards.
Carlo Garganese
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Serves him right for behaving like a two year old spoilt brat!
