[ITA] Serie A 2014/2015 (47 Viewers)

Post Ironic

Post Ironic

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Hist said:
I think the way the club is handling our PR since the 2006 situation rather poorly and that became very apparent last month.
Here are the facts:
1) We were convicted with a sentence that said we didnt do any match fixing
2) We were relegated to Serie B
3) Calciopoli 2 court said we werent guilty
4) Palazi said we weren't guilty
5) We are amongst the teams that get the least penalties in Italy over the last 6 years.

So only (2) looks bad and you have 4 other points to build your PR strategy on. Despite that favorable position, we are perceived as the dirtiest big club in Europe and as cheaters.

Now look at Milan:
1) Guilty of match fixing and relegated in the 80s.
2) Not guilty of match fixing but nevertheless punished first by relegation but then overturned to points reduction in 2006.
3) Owned by one of Europe's most corrupt politicians with cases against him every few months.
4) Palazzi said they should have been relegated in 2006 for match fixing but are protected by the statute of limitations.
5) They got the most penalties of all the big teams in Italy over the last 6 years.

Despite all of that they are perceived as a sleeping giant and a classy honest club around the world.

Of all the big clubs in Italy, we should have the best image while Milan is the opposite extreme and yet somehow they have the best image while we have the worst. Milan always lays low when these allegations are being thrown around. That strategy doesnt work for us. Juve should actively campaign to cleanse its image. Juve should continuously emphasize the calciopoli 2 trial and Palazzi's report. Juve should continuously emphasize that we receive much lesser penalties than the rest of the big clubs. The club should be more like Bayern's management... upfront and aggressive towards anyone who criticizes them. What we do is that we bend over and let players and clubs and media slander our names hoping that the "truth" will come through or that people will just forget that we were relegated.

This is terrible PR and It seriously affects our attractiveness for new fans if not players too. Juve should take a firm stance and thrash de sanctis the way mourinho would have when he (sanctis) made those comments about the club's history and Gigi. We need to be rude and aggressive whenever anyone even hints at cheating. Our lawyers need to be aggressive. agh..
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People need to stop suggesting we take the high road of silence. It clearly doesn't work. This is not some petty little squabble. Juve gets slandered constantly by the media and other clubs in Italy. It tarnishes our reputation, and damages the image of the club, especially when we allow it to go basically without a response.

Conte and Bonucci got suspended for reacting to the obvious handball that wasn't called against Genoa. Yet, Garcia, De Sanctis, Totti, and others get no response at all from the FIGC for their shameful behaviour. In fact, the one result was Tavecchio basically caving to their demands and saying he was asking FIFA about instituting video replay technology. The FIGC sure didn't offer us that for the Genoa situation.
 
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