Thats was when we dropped the ItalJuve project and added some key foreigners after his demands, when we have started to put performance over nationalism.
I like that analysts all over europe praise that Man utd, Juventus, Barcelona and Bayern try to form their core with players of their own nation.
Its greatly beneficial to the core exponents: Communication, playstyle, mentality and organisation of play.
Juventus benefit a great deal that the organisation is italy native/serie a based. The specific players it bought, all fit in those core exponents.
Conte wanted quality added to the team. Marotta did exactly that. If anything, Conte resurrected Italian players who were underachieving.
I fail to see how any of the above is a negative. I'm sure Cronios feels very happy with an Internazionale, playing 0 italians not so long ago.
There is nothing wrong at using Italians as long as they perform well and you can afford the best there are.
But its very wrong when you are only interested on them and overpaying for them, only becuase of their nationality and whats worse, you keep giving them chances noone else would get, only because of their nationality.
For example How many opportunities Molinaro, Motta and Bonucci, after a string of horrible performances got and how many Sorensen, Krasic and Ziegler got?
I wouldnt mind if we were to buy and use Cassano over Vucinic, De Rossi over Vidal etc,
just not tolerating mediocrity only because of their nationality.
Having weak players affects the performance of our team, it was pushing us back.
It has many advantages to have a core of Italian players and Juve always took pride in that, but when a generation lacks talents in certain places, like this one does at defence, we should make exceptions, until a new batch appears, without compromising performance.
BS, the ones who attack and hate me for my nationality are racists.
I am no racist, i ve lived 1/3 of my life abroad and many of my all time favourite footballers are Italians.
I dont dislike or like players for their nationality, but for their quality!
I have never attacked anyone for his nationality, its disgraceful and insulting to make such claims...