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s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,760
a team that financially is 3rd or 4th in the league, that is on pace for a 95 point season certainly is extraordinary. Regardless of whether Juve or Inter or Milan have dropped off, you still need to collect those points against all the teams in the league, not just the ones that are on a lower level than before.

Kim and Kvara obviously were very good recruiting done by Guintoli or ADL or whoever, but I think most of the praise belongs to Spalletti. He already found the 6th gear last year, they had a great start to the campaign and then went into a slump. This season he managed to significantly extend that period of good form and managed his resources incredibly well across 3 competitions, CL quarters+a dominant Scudetto win is jumping way above their asses.

while Allegri for the 2nd year running is still trying to figure out how to have the team play consistently and on a good intensity for 90 minutes. ask as many questions as you need, but the difference between Spalletti and Allegri is day and night.
so bottling a cl quarterfinal against an inferior team is excellent and deserves credit when napoli/spalletti does it? did spalletti make them a brilliant team, and did the players bottle their cl campaign, or is it a team sport?

is osimhen the most expensive player in the league? certainly in the same ballpark with vlahovic, right? napoli also have the most valuable squad of the league according to transfermarkt, do they have better players now, or is it spalletti who made some duds brilliant?

as for the wage bills, didn't we already come to the conclusion that juve overpay their players? so what does wage bill has to do with quality if the managements are incompetent?

see, nothing is black and white
 

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Strickland

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May 17, 2019
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so bottling a cl quarterfinal against an inferior team is excellent and deserves credit when napoli/spalletti does it? did spalletti make them a brilliant team, and did the players bottle their cl campaign, or is it a team sport?

is osimhen the most expensive player in the league? certainly in the same ballpark with vlahovic, right? napoli also have the most valuable squad of the league according to transfermarkt, do they have better players now, or is it spalletti who made some duds brilliant?

as for the wage bills, didn't we already come to the conclusion that juve overpay their players? so what does wage bill has to do with quality if the managements are incompetent?

see, nothing is black and white
Gattusso's Napoli and Pirlo's Juve where very similar in 20/21, Spalletti and Allegri overtook teams with similar path, only Juve has a lot more resources available. Imo the difference we see is down to two things:
1. Bini is a bum;
2. Max used to be good, but now is a washed up bum as well.

And I wish Juve had the CL campaign Napoli had, ours was a complete disgrace, cost us money and dignity
 

DAiDEViL

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
64,712
As for the wage bills, didn't we already come to the conclusion that juve overpay their players? so what does wage bill has to do with quality if the managements are incompetent?

see, nothing is black and white
Best squad on paper ;)

Using the wage bill to determine the quality of the squad is so stupid. Especially when you know that we are throwing money at mediocre bums and cripples left and right.
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,760
Gattusso's Napoli and Pirlo's Juve where very similar in 20/21, Spalletti and Allegri overtook teams with similar path, only Juve has a lot more resources available. Imo the difference we see is down to two things:
1. Bini is a bum;
2. Max used to be good, but now is a washed up bum as well.

And I wish Juve had the CL campaign Napoli had, ours was a complete disgrace, cost us money and dignity
it's not even about allegri, he failed, let him go and move on. no point comparing the two

it's the napoli cocksucking that doesn't make sense. they are good, but nowhere near the potential we had pre 2019, not even close. spalletti is doing a good job but i wouldn't put him above gasp or even sarri. this is their year when everything clicks, that's all. they have a few good players and a solid system, but they can easily lose the scudetto next season, especially if either of kvara and osimhen leaves
 

Strickland

Senior Member
May 17, 2019
5,859
it's not even about allegri, he failed, let him go and move on. no point comparing the two

it's the napoli cocksucking that doesn't make sense. they are good, but nowhere near the potential we had pre 2019, not even close. spalletti is doing a good job but i wouldn't put him above gasp or even sarri. this is their year when everything clicks, that's all. they have a few good players and a solid system, but they can easily lose the scudetto next season, especially if either of kvara and osimhen leaves
To sum up:
Gasperini > Spalletti = Sarri >>> Allegri?

I can agree with that.
 

maxi

Senior Member
Aug 31, 2006
3,767
Says it would be the wrong approach to try and defend a 1 goal lead in Lisbon. Guess what? We do just that.

Let's pray Seville aren't too ruthless.
 

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