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Bianconero81

Ageing Veteran
Jan 26, 2009
40,177
Everyone is to blame. We have a bunch of mercenaries on the team, but the coach is also highly accountable. He is clueless and stubborn. His inflexbility and obsession with certain positions and favoritism towards certain players isn't helping either.

Having said that, it's easier to change one man than an entire squad. Allegri MUST Go! This shouldn't even be a discussion at this point. However, in an ideal world, the entire board would be held responsible and summarrily dismissed, the coach and his staff would be fucked off, and half the squad would be sold or have their contracts terminated.
 

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,834
mckennie played rm many times at schalke and plays on the right side of a 3-man midfield for the nt too. he should be able to do that. also, team has been defending with the same shape for years, it should work without the ball with competent players. yes, it's probably the coach's fault that mckennie can't even run despite running being his only skill, allegri ruined his diet and probably fucked his team mate's sister too in the nt. mckennie is an examplary professional, he never breached covid protocols either, that's for sure. he played like shit against haifa, 60% pass accuracy, 10 lost possessions within 45 minutes, lost most duels, always 2 steps behind the action, but he's not to blame for that match. the coach told mckennie to let crosses in. bad setup automatically means bad individual performances.

we've been having the same blackouts within matches for years. same happened with pirlo and sarri too. scapegoat? allegri. we've been managing games like shit under sarri and pirlo too. blaming the players? fuck no. we've been signing random overpaid mercenaries without any dedication for years. mike: blame the current coach.

again, for the slow bunch: allegri should be fired. i'm also adding that the players are to blame too. i bet the slow bunch will ignore it.

all you remember from the 2nd round of previous year (vs empoli, when chiellini said "it isn't a team") is that mckennie was tried as an am/tq so the coach ruined the match. i also remember that he was subbed out at halftime and we missed all of our chances with a better setup too. i also remember that vlahovic needs 10 shots for a goal, rabiot only started to try since his next contract is at stake, bonucci lets brahim diaz run towards goal like a courteous gentleman, cuadrado is able to completely ruin a 5 v 2 counter, sandro hasn't been able to cross for years, danilo was never able to attack. but but but it's the tactics, fullbacks should be higher than vlahovic, football is simple.

your post is true in a vacuum but a nice deflection considering the context. you somehow started to talk about maccabi while completely missing and ignoring my point. you said that those who we bought recently were exemplary professionals and completely ignored the majority of my post when i proved that they aren't. we've been having more or less the same issues for years, even with strong characters in the locker and game changing players on the pitch. now we only have di maria who's expected to do some unexpected move while a few years ago we had ronaldo, dybala, higuain, pjanic, even costa for flashes lol. this is a more and more sterile squad with ageing key players. senators are almost gone, those were the only players you could blame, and it turns out that chiellini or buffon are much harder to replace than you suggested. we'd be a better team with chiellini now.

and again, for the slow bunch: allegri shouldn't be here by now, for his supposed involvement in this meh mercato and the crap job as a trainer, especially this season. that's not even up for debate. mike thinks that all of the players are true professionals for their whole careers which clearly isn't the case. in fact our recruiting has been nothing short of disastrous.
What are the issues with any of the players I listed? I could be wrong but I've never heard of problems caused by any of them. I never mentioned McKennie.
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,651
What are the issues with any of the players I listed? I could be wrong but I've never heard of problems caused by any of them. I never mentioned McKennie.
proof that you didn't even read one of my previous posts

why do i even care

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You blame McKennie for being shit, but Allegri keep playing him as starter. So who is more to blame here? :lol3:
For sure McKennie didn't pick himself as starter.
jesus dude, i literally said that allegri shouldn't be here, i repeated it multiple times so that everyone understand that. i am not even trying to not blame him, and it's still not clear for some

as for mckennie (or sandro, mds, bonucci and a few others): they shouldn't even be at juventus at first place. there's not a single lineup this season that doesn't contain at least 2-3 shit players not even worthy of the jersey, and the majority of the rest is squad player level.

inb4 the inevitable counter argument: yes,we should still be able to beat monza, so allegri isn't blameless. i never said he was. i repeated many times that the squad is shit, but not this shit. the squad is still underwhelming.
 
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s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,651
Gotta love how some are trying to walk the line of "Allegri failed, but he is not a complete failure" lol. For me in his 2nd stint he's considerably worse than Pirlo, let alone Sarri.
it is a complete failure of course, no two ways about it

sad that you don't get the argument either. mike never blames the players (besides some senators lol), like we had city's squad and all they'd need is some proper coaching lol. he argues that we had a brilliant mercato because the players we brought in are great professionals. like 1. it was true while it isn't 2. like a good mercato would/could fix all the holes in the squad. that's the argument.

once again, allegri has been terrible and deserves to be sacked. i never even questioned that. still, more or less the same mess existed with sarri and pirlo too, so it's not purely a coaching issue.
 

Clamarc

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Sep 26, 2018
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proof that you didn't even read one of my previous posts

why do i even care

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jesus dude, i literally said that allegri shouldn't be here, i repeated it multiple times so that everyone understand that. i am not even trying to not blame him, and it's still not clear for some

as for mckennie (or sandro, mds, bonucci and a few others): they shouldn't even be at juventus at first place. there's not a single lineup this season that doesn't contain at least 2-3 shit players not even worthy of the jersey, and the majority of the rest is squad player level.

inb4 the inevitable counter argument: yes,we should still be able to beat monza, so allegri isn't blameless. i never said he was. i repeated many times that the squad is shit, but not this shit. the squad is still underwhelming.
I agree that McKennie is bad but replace McKennie with X player i.e Locatelli and we'll see more or less similar performance. Replace Bonucci/ Bremer with Rugani and we become significantly worse. Same case with Sandro -> DS.
We're just not functional well as a team especially in midfield, and midfield is the most vital part for any football teams. We used to be able to subs Vidal/Pirlo/Marchisio with lesser quality player like Padoin/ Giacch without seeing any significant drop. That was because we were functional as team and this is mostly down to the coach to make it work.

tbh I won't blame Allegri if he somehow finds a system that work as a foundation and he just doesn't have the players now. We can slowly replace them and buy players that fit the system, but what we see is just clueless football every weeks
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,651
I agree that McKennie is bad but replace McKennie with X player i.e Locatelli and we'll see more or less similar performance. Replace Bonucci/ Bremer with Rugani and we become significantly worse. Same case with Sandro -> DS.
We're just not functional well as a team especially in midfield, and midfield is the most vital part for any football teams. We used to be able to subs Vidal/Pirlo/Marchisio with lesser quality player like Padoin/ Giacch without seeing any significant drop. That was because we were functional as team and this is mostly down to the coach to make it work.

tbh I won't blame Allegri if he somehow finds a system that work as a foundation and he just doesn't have the players now. We can slowly replace them and buy players that fit the system, but what we see is just clueless football every weeks
we don't have to buy players for allegri anymore, this is clearly a dead end

it's just baffling that no matter who you pick from this team (and i'm not even considering pogba, chiesa and di maria part of this team as they are practically virtual players), you end up with an underwhelming starting 11 with multiple tradeoffs. and the attitude of players is simply inexplicable. bonucci talked about it last season right after ronaldo left, when he said that the team often relied on cr to solve things on his own. now i see the same but without ronaldo lol. bonucci's defensive "move" on brahim diaz is the prime example. he even raised his hands literally saying "it's not my fault" lol, and that's our capitano.

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bonucci, sandro, cuadrado, paredes, di maria, mckennie, kean

attitude wise, i'm more or less happy with perin (how the fuck he isn't the starter), danilo, miretti, bremer, milik. the others could either try harder (locatelli, vlahovic) or just rescind their contracts and fuck off (majority of the rest), the exemplary professionals they are
 

Salvo

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Dec 17, 2007
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A lot of people will take the suggestion that there are players not happy with the ritiro but it's very clear both Allegri and Agnelli have placed all the blame on the team. The former has not admitted or suggested that he has had any mistakes. Agnelli quoting Max saying that players not being able to tackle is not a tactical issue showed this. Look back at the sconcerti interview, all on the players now Galeone saying the team is no good. I'd be pissed off as well
 

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
10,883
it's just baffling that no matter who you pick from this team (and i'm not even considering pogba, chiesa and di maria part of this team as they are practically virtual players), you end up with an underwhelming starting 11 with multiple tradeoffs.
Even if everyone was fit, it would be virtually impossible to field a starting eleven that isn't underwhelming. The situation is that dire.
But that's obviously no excuse for the laughable "performances" over the last few weeks/months. Quality players or not, I want to see some effort from them.


A lot of people will take the suggestion that there are players not happy with the ritiro but it's very clear both Allegri and Agnelli have placed all the blame on the team. The former has not admitted or suggested that he has had any mistakes. Agnelli quoting Max saying that players not being able to tackle is not a tactical issue showed this. Look back at the sconcerti interview, all on the players now Galeone saying the team is no good. I'd be pissed off as well
Not a bad point. But the thing is, the team is no good.
The fact that they're barely trying may be up to Allegri, at least in part. Same with the (lack of) tactics. But at the end of the day, at least half the squad just isn't good enough or not anymore. And it doesn't help that most of these guys are the high earners.
 

#10

Senior Member
Jul 28, 2002
7,377
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you that this team is utter shit and performing largely to it’s level, thus absolving himself from any blame.
And poof, just like that, he remained for what feels like an eternity.
I was literally thinking the same thing.

how the narrative is pivoting to the players is predictable. Self serving and transparent. AA has stubbornness and pride - defending his friend to the end. If it wasn’t for the situation it would almost admirable.
 

Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
11,616
“Players not good enough” or “squad is underwhelming” implies that we are 2nd or 3rd best and are struggling with the consistency needed to be first

Not a team that’s losing to Monza and Haifa. This period is the worst Juve since 2006.
 

Salvo

J
Moderator
Dec 17, 2007
62,797
I was literally thinking the same thing.

how the narrative is pivoting to the players is predictable. Self serving and transparent. AA has stubbornness and pride - defending his friend to the end. If it wasn’t for the situation it would almost admirable.
This
Take these players away from Allegri would they be better? Have they been better for their national teams? Yes

Give Allegri different players (currently) would they be any better? I doubt it.

We have no game plan at all.
 

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