Super attacking mastermind Maurizio Sarri goals per game in his career: 1.58
Super defensive-only-individual-quality Allegri: 1.77
They both started managing in 04/05, they both managed in lower leagues until this decade and Sarri is on his 3rd bigger team to Allegri's 2.
Allegri goals per game in 16/17 when we played with 3 strikers + Cuadrado: 2.01. Klopp at Liverpool for comparison: 2.14. But not offensive I guess.
Eh. Sorry if I haven't been clear enough for you but that doesn't really get to the crux of what I'm trying to say about the difference between the two coaches. There's a group of members on here (which is shrinking all the time, I might add) who have a schizophrenic attitude towards the topic. The argument is only binary and any irrelevant fact or statistic suffices to win the zero sum-argument you have with yourselves.
If you're going to jump to make a martyr of a coach, at least let him be an exceptional coach by some historical standard. Allegri is not that. I don't sneeze at his achievements. He was an astute tactician but at the end of the day his Scudetti were won by ready made squads who were mile in front of their competitors and he proved to be a not-so-nearly man in the CL.
No. Even if that statistical comparison really did reflect your point, it misses what I was trying to get at - what style of football suits the objectives of this club at this time? Obviously it's the CL. And what the Allegri fanatics so often forget is the way we were steamrolled in those two finals. Those two finals were perfect illustrations of the fatal deficiencies in Allegri's football. Nothing in football is as powerful as holding the ball and controlling the game. It's the modern reality of football, like it or not. But Allegri stated scores of times that he didn't believe in the feasibility of trying to do anything of the kind. It was almost literally in his game plan to deliberately sit back every 20 minutes or so - in spite of any momentum in Juve's favour or demonstrable ability to hold the ball, control the game and threaten to score - to bend over and take it up the arse for a while just because he thought it natural to do so; and moreover, that the opponents would, at one point or other, bend over for us in kind.
We, under Allegri's instruction, deliberately gave away the initiative to teams that did not think anything like Allegri did. They instead believed and dared to arrest the initiative for as long as their skill, technique, understanding and confidence would allow them. Allegri never even tried to imbue his teams with that kind of confidence. The indirect consequence of that was apprehension whenever Juve came up against sides who did demonstrate that confidence. We were set up for failure in those finals.
Sarri might not achieve what he wants to. But at least he aspires to a football which we have seen time and time again in this generation win the CL. He has the balls to have a crack at making this squad as ruthless as it deserves to be and I'd prefer to fail under Sarri than to inevitably fail under Allegri.