hello everyone. I have frquent this forum for the past few years and have now finally decided to do some posting. I used to be active in another juve fan forum but that site has tons of blind faith fanboys who will not hesitate to shoot you down or call you a fake fan the moment you criticize or point out glaring problems with the team / players. that place has gotten too irrational, delusional and toxic. juventuz seems to have more realistic and rational fans
i agree with old school with regards to our club mentality and transfer policy. seems like we are a club that likes to gear towards building a strong squad for the league. stretching back to the lippi days, we always almost have only 1 or 2 superstars coupled with grinding teamwork players. for every del piero and zidane we will have the contes, deschamps, pessottos, birindellis
from what i can remember. the only time we had practically a world class player at almost every position was capello's 2005 Juve
GK: buffon
DL: zambrotta
DC: thuram
DC: cannavaro
DR: pessotto
ML: nedved
MR: camoranesi
MC: vieira
MC: emerson
FC: trezeguet
FC: wonderkid zlatan
we even had a very strong bench as well: the up coming chiellini and marchisio, adrian mutu, robert kovac, criscito, abbiati and freaking del piero!. had the squad was not dismantled the following year due to calciopoli i imagine we would at least win one UCL
after calciopoli we had to start from scratch and now we are back to the old policy of having one or two stars coupled with the grinders like khedira, sturaros. in modern day CL, one will just have to stack as many top stars in almost every position possible. it might not guarantee you the win but it certainly does improve the chances. bargain buys and free transfer for over the hill super stars can only get us the serie a title but not the UCL..
whether it is purely down to financial restriction or the club's ambition to only win the serie a that we keep coming up with those sort of transfer strategy i really do not know