The modern game left Juve behind a few years ago
I doubt we'll ever have the resources to catch up either. Mind you, football is a few years away from being an oil money playground anyway. Just need to wait for Newcastle and a couple other clubs to join the mix
Thats a pretty grim outlook. We ll eventually get out of this shit and win domestically. After that we will build on and start another cycle. With a few good signings and some change in managment (coach, directors, etc), things can change rapidly. How many of these oil clubs have won a CL? City spent billions over the last decade and can boast with 1 CL final, less than us mind you in the same period. Its still the same oldtimers, clubs without oil money, winning it.
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Not entirely true.
Mauricio Pochettino and Paulo Sousa were offered to Juventus management by intermediaries, but the club has decided that they will continue with Massimiliano Allegri for now. [@NicoSchira)
Both arent good enough.
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Everyone that wants him out should come to the immediate realization that it won't be Zidane that comes or any other top European coach (maybe Conte would be dumb enough to come back) for that matter. It will be an italian, someone probably from Serie A so start setting your expectation bar to that level.
Going to help with the coping when that time actually comes.
Zidane coming here isnt far fetched imo. But bigger chances are it would be someone from Italy like Italiano and Id be okay with that choice.
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in 2001/2002 and 2002/2003.. They used that format for R16 making another groups stage of 4 groups of 4 teams
2001/2002.. advanced from first group stage (32 teams) and in R16 group stage we played Leverkusen, Arsenal and Depor
2002/2003 we had a difficult group, Deportivo again and Tudor got us to R8 vs barca.. semi vs. Real.. then we lost the final to Milan
+ yeah.. it is not the end of world for sure..
Those of us who supported Juve for what it was in the 90s are now reaching our 40+ year of age.. we are not passionate about football as we were in our teens and twenties..
It is the end of "world football" for us...
Instead.. we are seeing the Juve we loved vanish into thin air..
And unfortunately... if no drastic changes happens
Starting with this fraud..
We are not coming back..
We will be like what Ajax was one day..
Did not manage to upgrade to modern football/business..
Was a power horse one day
10-20 years from now.. people will remember Juve as a team that was once a power horse..
We are not gaining any new fans
No likeable players
No results
No beautiful football
No style
No values.. grinta... fine alla fine etc
All new fans are either Real's barca MC PSG Bayern Liver etc..
This basically means
"The start of the end"
As far as Allegri is concerned.. he is 100% not the only problem.. but the first one to fix and as soon as possible
We need to rediscover our DNA. The whole shit started when we tried to rebrand our image, our style of play, etc. Gritty Juve with several talented individuals like Baggio, Zizou and Ale was the Juve I started supporting. I heard the same during Calciopolli, then we went on to win 9 in a row, 2 CL finals....