So....still not fired?
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Its called having a concept, a clear game plan, big balls, players who know what they are doing and a coach who knows exactly how to put this together.... Also, lets not forget the two most important things...we have a terrible fitness training and literally 50% of our starting line up is injured...
It's more than just coaching if we're being honest and seriously look at it.
Club culture influences it to some degree, to put this into something easy to grasp, Juve as a club is a club who for years if not decades pride itself at having the traditional Italian grinta defending as one of it core value and footballing philosophy. Hence not too long ago we took great pride at the BBBC defense, but that's not really without it's cost...
What cost, well it's something that some people here has been calling it out in the last few weeks with "I told you so" sentiment...
Juve as a club, is a club where playing poor outdated uninspired defensive football is pretty much tolerated and even at times seemingly embraced, something to be proud of and kinda encouraged as long as we win...
Taken at face value there's nothing wrong with it, but again as some here already stated, it goes against the flow of the sports in this day and age...
But furthermore than that, in today case, such philosophy and club culture ENABLES coaches like Allegri to exist here... This club tolerate coaches Capello and Allegri precisely because of that culture, when such coaches work and they won, it's okay I guess? although in this day and age it's also need to be keep in mind by whoever in charge of the club that we aren't the only big club... You can't blame the world if people would rather watch Barca Bayern city rather than Juve even if we all are equally dominating our domestic leagues with the difference being all of them but Juve beat their smaller opponents 3-0 or more week in week out with style while we're more often than not are grinding 1-0/2-1 wins in excruciating and rather embarrassing manners...
But then when such coaches doesn't work, well here we are, everything gets so much worse than practically every other clubs out there... And look at it this way too, even under meme coaches, Juve as a club almost never entertaining to watch compared to other top teams, and then there are clubs like Atalanta that is not a winning club, but under Gasperini they can be an exciting side to watch and made news around the footballing world because of that, Juve OTOH never plays like that, surely not on consistent basis...
This may sound insane but, if we're not on our best, in our rebuilding phase and are losing, why can't we at least lose with style? Huh? At least losing 5-6 would be entertaining compared to the scared agonizing 1-2 loss where we are having in ropes at our own half pretending that our players are doing some kind of defense heroism like some Spartans against Persians or something...
The club and Agnelli tried to change that with Sarri and Pirlo but they were the wrong losing gamble, although if it were me, I would've stick with Pirlo even to this season... Before finding higher profile coaches (that's not in the mould of Allegri and Capello) if Pirlo didn't progress at an acceptable rate...
But then we're back to Allegri, which IMO again the decision was influenced with the club culture and philosophy as a whole, that we're okay with playing uninspired outdated football as long as we're winning...
And that led us here...