Our class? Can we be realistic for one second. We were the best team amongst a bunch of sub par serie A clubs. We couldn't hold our own against any team in Europe and you can tell by where the world ranks us and our campionato where the world thinks our class is. We are not a top tier league or team and we need years to be at their levels.
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
So we didn't draw against Madrid in Turin, or lose by a goal in Madrid (with a CR7 PK as the winner)? Because to me, that sounds a bit like holding our own against the current CL title holders.
Stop moaning. Just because the pussy Elkans didn't defend the club properly, and the FIGC is corrupt as fuck and allowed the Calciopoli sham-trial to go down, which crippled our club and did massive damage to the league's reputation, doesn't change our REAL history. This club has a TON of class -- fino alla fine. As for the present, there is plenty of fucking class on this team, look at the squad we have, there are some great players here. And we weren't just "the best team amongst a bunch of subpar Serie a squads", either, we set a fucking all time points record in the league, while winning a historic third straight scudetto. Not easy to do.
2012-2013 we went out of the CL in the Quarterfinals to the eventual winners. Last year, we added guys like Tevez and Llorente, but crashed out earlier - which happens sometimes. Do you actually think we were a worse team last year than the year before, because we crashed out of CL earlier? Because we weren't, we just played a few really shitty matches at the wrong time, and were missing a bit of luck. Otherwise we could have been in the quarters or better again, likely made huge bank like we did in 2012-13 (when we generated more CL revenue than the winners, because of the market pool structure of the TV contracts), and you'd be singing a totally different tune.
That's the fucking nature of tournament football (and media hype in general), usually you're not nearly as good or as bad as the anglo-centric lame-stream media brands you. Also, the unexpected can certainly happen -- like Atletico being two minutes of injury time away from CL glory -- that's the nature of the tournament beast. We were one late brain fart in Lisbon away from heading to the Europa finals, and had we won that competition I bet you'd be singing a different tune.
