Look, I was against sacking Ciro, simply because Ciro wasn't the main problem. As you pointed out in your post before, our defence is abysmal and no coach can make it work, with what I wholeheartedly agree. And just for the same reason I refused to bash Ciro, I refuse to praise Zac.
i do disagree here, because i think Ciro was A problem.
even with our not that great defensive player material, a better coach could have made it more solid.
as you saw, ranieri did make our defense look pretty solid, because his system was "custommade" for our weak defense. so the evidence is given, that you CAN make the defense work better than now and better than under ferrara
the problem with Ferrara was, that he had NO clue. he had one system in mind that he would have liked to play. it is bit like he took the "football manager" (computer game) approach to his tactics.
he thought "i have bought a good trequartista (diego) and a gread dm (melo) and i will just go to the "tactics"-button and choose "4-2-3-1" and it will work". this does actually work in these simple computer games. that is where many of you get your logic from. just place a player with a high "value" on the different positions in the tactics setup and the team will win.
as you all saw, it is NOT simple as putting strong players together on any given tactical setup/formation and they will win.
we went from a tactical system that worked pretty solid (ranieri era), to a totally new system that was not well-thought (because ferrara obviously did not even know all facet a tactical setup consisted off) to a makeshift formation (zacchs era) where the primary target is too change as less as possible (to not further confuse the player) and still fix the big wholes the phantasy-formation of ferrara had.
We are not playing good football and Zac is not our saviour. He's an average coach doing an average work (just like Ciro was, IMO). The real problem is the squad: we simply do not have enough quality to challenge for the title, we haven't had that quality for a couple of years now, plenty of us (me included) was blinded by good league positions in the last two years, which was due to us overperforming thanks to our old guard (which has since gotten older, more injury prone and less reliable).
again i will tell you that I THINK that there is a HUGE difference between Ferrara with clearly no clue on who to setup a new formation for a team and even no clue in analyzing what is going on the pitch, to any coach who has a few years of coaching on his shoulders (successful or not). you do remember the first press post-match pressconference where zacch clearly told us, what was going wrong on the field (in contrast to ferraras "we will find a way out if we hold together"). there are WORLDS between Zaccheroni and Ferrara (and again Worlds between Zaccheroni and i.e. Capello or Lippi). Since we did not get anyone better we have to make it with Zaccheroni and the limited service he can provide us with is, setting the right basement and instilling the basic functions of football into the team. that will not make us win anything great, but it will make the next coaches job much easier and lets not kid ourself. if we continued on the road with ferrara no better coach would have taken a fucked up and confused team at the end of the season. i think if zacch gets the basics into the team (basics that are not dependent on formation or tactical setup) than we have an even bigger chance that we get a chance next season.
With a great coach (or more luck), we probably could have mounted a challenge for the Scudetto. But being Juventus, we should have to squad to dominate weak teams even with average coaches.
no need to talk about what could have been, if you did not see that ferrara pretty much fucked it up. i am sounding like a ferrara hater, but if you read back in the past i did support him until the point came that it was clear that he totally had NO clue... so it is not a personal dislike (like some of you got against zacch).
To sum it up: we weren't playing good football under neither Ranieri, nor Ferrara, and we aren't playing good football under Zaccheroni. And no one of those three is at fault for that. Ciro's only fault was to get in charge at the worst time possible.
under ranieri we had a system
under ferrara the system was only in his head, but not on the pitch
zaccheroni is currently picking up the broken pieces of the supposed system of ferrara and tries to glue it together so it does hold until the next season
and please enlighten me, why was that the worst time when ciro came in ? its not like overtaking a team that ended second (lets just imagine we would have ended up third under ranieri it would still not be a tough situation).
it was ferraras decision to use a new formation, it was pretty much his responsibilty to make his project (his formation and tactical setup) work and he obviously had way to few experience to do this.
it was a deliberate and naive decision to think a change of system would be so easy.
had he had the guts, he could have just used the old ranieri system, told diego to play second striker or winger if he wants playing time and problem fixed.
the players would have known where to run, the new players would have found it easier to fit into a working system (and not being thrown into some fantasy shit formation that just works in the coaches brain) and we would have surely at least ended this situation in a top 3 spot (without the crisis we got right now)
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