Since you praise Conte so much, would you please admit that you were WRONG about him?
again i repeat, i said it was a mistake to hire a completely unproven coach, coming straightly from serie B, with zero serie A exp, or anything related to a club of Juve's level.
Most of the unknown, unproven and unexperienced coaches there and we have been hiring all this time, were proved to be... an unwise decision.
To admitt that it was the right decision to hire Conte, for a club of Juve's level, esp after all what we have been though, would be equal at admitting that the choice to sign all the previous coaches we did, was right as well!
Sorry, but i wont, at any case, it was a bad risk and completely unwise, yes miracles happen and itt did happened to us, but they are rare and we should rather not take our chances for the 7th consecutive season.
Another reason i didnt wanted Conte to coach us right away, was because i like the man, i grew up him being our captain.
The man, unlike Ferrara was having a decent and climbing coaching carrier, it would be a real shame to burn it like we did with Ferrara, a real shame, a failure at that point would IMO, destroy his serie A carrier.
And the odds at that point were not at our favor. Unlike Guardiola, we were not exactly Barcelona, full of WC players, trillions in our budget and huge political influence. The odds were against him and against us.
What Conte did was a miracle and as far as i am concerned, he is a far better coach than Pep, for achieving such an impossible task, with such impossible odds.
So if Conte was now banned for life and we were looking for a coach among former Juve players, like Nedved or a proven coach like Capello, i would again choose the proven in a heartbeat!!
But since the second friendly game i watchedlast summer, in the after Conte era, i immediatetly became a fun of him, long before the majority of the forum, writing pages of pro-Conte argumentation, considering the effects i have saw in our team.
What i had to admitt about Conte, i did there and then, without any hesitation or remorse, even before those affects were proved in official matches, win anything, or come even remotely close to win anything. So i did it when it counted the most!
There is quite a difference there, i would avoid a wild risk if i could, despite what ppl say, i am not gifted with handsight, i just prefer to play it safe and wise.
The choice we made was unwise, imo. Conte himself has declared that in a season with Juve he has matured, as a coach, almost as much, as in his all carrier in serie B and that the ideas he had initially could not be applied in Juve's reality.
He had to adapt and he did it with a grace and an efficiency that are very very rare among his fellow serie A coaches.
Arguably, he is an exception, an exception that confirms the rule though and it is unwise to adjust the rule because of excepptions...
For the very same reasons i believe that Conte's choice was unwise, i believe that the current choice of Inter and Milan are unwise as well.
The Barcelonisation of football, has brought some changes i detect, like the Pep's and no CFs, that are unvalid across the football world, excepting for them.