I'm too drunk right now to make to make my point in fully grammarly correct English
But Max was sacked the season when he won a Scudetto. We got f*cked by Atalanta and Ajax but we did win the league with much ease with a squad of Manzukic - CR7; Dybala; Matuidi - Pjanic - Khedira; AS Benatia - Chiellini - Danilo/Cuadrado
Hate him or love him but Max is a serial winner. Has always over performed in his managerial career. Only he needed to be given the best squad in the league and hope for less injury's and he will most likely win a league. Football will be bloody awful and European succes is difficult. The reality is, we don't have the best in Serie A at all. We have 3 PSG rejects, a permanent injured Dancer and a Serbian Amauri alongside Porto's fullbacks from 2011. And by the look of things, we won't sign the best players available next season either when we need to replace our left back, midfielder and right winger.
Things are looking like the Ranieri/Delneri level to me
This club needs changing on so many levels: strategic management, sporting director, trainer and a new squad
This isn't overperforming, this is meeting expectations. I agree with the rest of it all, though.
It appeared that he was taking us to the next level when he joined after Conte, but over time we came to accept just how good our players were- at least in here because we as a forum tend to underrate our own guys. We had such low expectations after the 7th places and then flattening Serie A but shitting the bed in Europe under Conte. Allegri definitely had a decisive part to play in the two CL finals, but the players he had were exceptional as individuals and were knitted together by the engine of hard work Conte built plus a strong spine of leadership on the pitch both and in the dressing room, from players who symbolised our club like Buffon, Chiellini and Marchisio and from newer signings like Evra and Khedira. Pirlo, Lichtsteiner and Barzagli also had Juventus written all over them. We were more of a brand in those days than the Jj nonsense can ever hope to achieve. A part of that was our identity as winners. Nobody should be expecting to reach a CL final, but we had the kind of squad that you'd expect to see in them.
Although Conte rebuilt the club into more or less what it used to be he was definitely holding us back in playstyle and attitude, but maybe Max deserves less credit for the post-Conte than the rest of the backroom staff and the players. Idk, I really looked up to Max during that time and he did nail his tactics in some huge European games- Dortmund and the Madrid semi final come to mind plus the infamous incident of Barca having zero shots on target in the Nou Camp. Luck or individual error fucked us a couple of times (Evra vs Bayern, Bonucci starting a fight in the final) and we were twice 90 minutes from a Champions League. If we'd won one or both this wouldn't be a conversation- he'd be the undisputable greatest Juve coach of a generation. But in the real world as we reflect back I'd say Max was very good, but maybe not one of the greats. I guess there's no way to know for sure. People initially said Zidane was carried to success by the squad he had, but now they probably wouldn't say that.
Anyway, now we have a squad which isn't as good as we had in 2015, but it has a solid balance of promise, current ability and experience but the other parts are missing. There's no leadership, there's no identity in our play style or through our squad. We are underperforming, and Allegri is not meeting expectations. Even on our run of wins we were riding our luck so hard not to draw or even get beaten by Crotone for gods sake. I don't even mind ugly wins that much, but the way we've been playing isn't that it's gambling and hoping. That's what I don't like and that's Max's fault.