What are your predictions for this season? Do you think we''ll win again? Is Milan going to qualify for the CL?
Should be more competitive than the past 2-3 years. There is still time till end of mercato but Juve have lost pieces that won't be easy to replace. Also, another year removed from the influence Conte had on building the culture of the current team will further weaken Juve. Allegri is a good coach and a better, more astute tactician than Conte but he doesn't have that cutting edge mentality and the more he makes Juve a team in his image, the weaker and more vulnerable Juve would become, at least in that regard.
This being said, Juve are still the clear-cut favs until another team shows to be good enough to dethrone them.
Inter have had a good mercato but there is also Mancio at the wheel for that team so that settles it for me - they won't challenge and could well have turned into a dumpster fire by December, IMO.
Roma can amount a serious challenge with the addition of a couple of solid defenders but in the end they are still more likely to implode than prove to be resilient enough to win it all. They simply lack the team culture of a winner and no roster talent can topple that flaw.
Am curious to see how Napoli and Fiorentina fair under the new coaching regimes but in the end, they will most likely be still just Napoli and Fiorentina. Same goes for Lazio - even when they are good, their good is just not good enough.
So, besides a more mentally resilient Roma (on which I would not bet much, tbh), the only team I think can seriously challenge Juve would be Milan, depending on how the whole Mihajlovic thing works out. Obviously the roster can still be improved upon but, in the end, Milan will live or die by the coaching decision as that's the most crucial moment in building a team and a winning culture.
If Mihajlovic manages to bring the pieces together and change the mentality of the team, I can see Milan becoming something of a dark-horse challenger, similar to how Juve were in Conte's first year at the helm. Not having to deal with the distractions of playing in Europe could well play an important role in such a scenario.
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