what has happened cronios ?
why are you so soft with ranieri ?
is it, because you spent all your hate towards the juve board, while writing articles in the name of your alter ego (carlo garganese) for goal.com ?
that must be the most positive posting i have read from cronios/carlo about ranieri ...
btw... it is not funny anymore how you blast molinaro on your calcio debate on goal.com ... he was at least consistent average for us in the last games
I am not soft with CR, i am just trying to be fair/objective
You should have see my post, defending him at his thread.:toast:
I do believe that some of the managerial decisions were beyond his hand and it is a mistake to blame him, or any other innocent man for that.
I know that his position holds him responsible for that anyway, but i am merciful with the ppl, who are forced to take their bosses blame/mistakes with a big smile on their face, as they turn into the ultimate scapegoats...
I also believe that there are some real reasons/mistakes, CR needs to ask for,
blaming him for everything is not my style of criticism.
An emotional opinion can be easily discredited or even change, when the situation changes in the future. Therefore i insist on blaming him, for the specific parts, that are his confirmed duties alone! Because he can never escape from that, no matter the results.
The guy is working with a handicap and considering that, he has done well,
he is a coward and a loser, but he is at least more open minded than Capello and he can easier adapt to a new situation and improve from there.
(dropping the 4-4-2 with 2 DMs, dropping Neddy for Giovinco, try a CM, even dare to try the trident at times, were all clear indications that he has at least his eyes and ears open. A slow/retarded learner maybe, but still a learner)
I am pleased with that and i am also pleased with the work he has done with the available material.
He could avoid repeating some mistakes, he could have treated some of our youngsters a little better and he should interfere with our strategical disastrous mistakes with more authority, but... he is only CR after all and my realistic expectations didnt ask for anything more than that. Its not like i am soft with him, but i know with who am i dealing with...
On the other hand, the board has done some grave mistakes, they dont seem to learn form their mistakes, they have more influence than CR and those mistakes are critical. I see them as the real threat to our cause right now!!
I believe that if we want to eradicate a problem for good, we should start with rooting out source first! They are the weakest link and the priority of my criticism.
Their faulty decisions expand everywhere and affect our future.
So far they have built nothing and they cant base on the old core forever like leeches, time will come that we have to live without the left overs of the Moggi era and this board has been proved way to inefficient for the job...
Even the loser CR with the triade in his back, would have won us a title at this point!
And finally for Molinaro, i have been a proud hater from day one,
but since the summer it seems that i am way to soft with him.
Thats because of two reasons:
-Molinaro this year has reached the maximum of his potential, at this very point the harm he does in our team, every time we field him, is very limited/minimized, comparing it with the harm he has been doing last year.
Last season, with Moli on the field, it felt like we were playing with 10 players, as he was running up and down, but always out-synced and at the wrong direction. This year, he is at least running at the right direction and thats all i can ask from an extremely limited "player" like himself...
-And the second reason, is concerning our strategical plans and team development, i see limited players like Molinaro, made starters and becoming the core of our team, as a great threat to our plans for a future, competitive Juve. He lacks the necessary talent and basic football skills to ever become Juve material and i see the investment (time on the pitch) on him as a waste of time.
Even if he is now more reliable than he was, his presence is still a threat to our future plans, because with such limited players, we can never accomplish the quality step we are aiming for! So i would sacrifice this minimal reliability, to try out and give chances into more talented players, who would integrate faster than him and have the potential/talent to be a part of a future competitive Juve.
Molinaro presence forbids that possibility!
But it is futile to ask for that as long as CR is our coach, he has a personal reason:money:

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, which goes beyond Juve's interests and the on the field performances with Molinaro, so i have decided that we have to live with that handicap and i can only hope that this issue will not multiply in other places (Grygera, Marchionni and in a lesser extend Legro) and affects our team even more...
As for Carlo, he he:xmas: , indeed at some cases it seems that we copy each others quotes, but i dont think that he is the only who shares the same concerns/worries with me. Every objective Juve fan and every non- Juve fan would say the same for Molinaro. And the rest of us would have said the same about Moli, if he was a Milan or Inter player...
PS i m very pleased with the Sony Ericsson news!