Thuram - This will be a great season. (1 Viewer)

[dpforever]

Sunday, September the 15th. Juventus will start the new season. After four matches on Saturday, the blackandwhites will be on the Delle Alpi pitch at 3.00 pm to face Atalanta. Everybody's happy: supporters, players, coaches and between them Lilian Thuram: "We will finally start the season, we're all happy. The Scudetto? It's fantastic to have it on the shirt, but it's in the past now. We have to think about the new season and nothing else. The team is more or less the same of last year and this is positive. Don't forget - we're the champions".

Between the new players that arrived at Juve is a well known player to Thuram: Marco Di Vaio. "Marco is a very good player, i'm happy he's been signed by Juventus. I remember him coming from Salernitana, he didn't play very much at that time. Today he's in the national team..."

Thuram talks about the opponents as well: "I'm happy to see all the others growing up with champions like Rivaldo. It's certainly better fot italian football and supporters".

 

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[jaansu]

It's great to see him ready to go.

He's a great player who had problems last season particularly with the position he was played in, but that seems to be all behind him. Hopfully he will be one of the stars of Serie A and the Champions league this season, ending up with the treble, of course .

 

[dpforever]

Yeah, am glad he's still a Bianconeri .. I hope he stays long enough with us .. and shows his true capabilities ..

 

[Tom]

he had better do after that huge transfer fee :irritated:

 

[Ian]

I think that he contribution has been equal to his fee.

 

[Tom]

If his fee had been 5 million I would have agreed with you

hey who renamed the irritated smilie 'irritate' ?!

 

[maxmc]

thuram played gr8 this pre-season... all the critics seem to have helped....

last season he was dissapointing and i also wanted him to go, but now i think he'll show his class.....

 

[Ian]

I thought that he was quite good last season, I don't know why y'all are so down on him.

 

[Martin]

It looks like Thuram really doesn't care for the right back spot

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Thuram questions Cuper choice Monday 16 September, 2002

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Lilian Thuram believes that Inter boss Hector Cuper made a mistake by playing his former teammate Fabio Cannavaro at right back on Saturday.

The Italy international was surprisingly fielded in that role this weekend as the Nerazzurri got their Scudetto campaign off to a 1-0 win over Torino.

However, Thuram believes that Cuper must play Cannavaro in the centre if he is to get the best out of the ex-Parma star.

"He is a central defender and it is impossible to keep playing him on the right," said the Juventus stopper.

"At Parma I always played well when I was alongside him in the middle and when I played against him on the international stage he was like a lion in the middle.

"I can play right back but he can’t. Cuper will soon understand this."

Cannavaro joined the San Siro giants this summer in a surprise £11m move after Inter failed in their attempts to sign Alessandro Nesta from Lazio.

 

[Nino.Brown]

So where's Thuram gonna be playing this season? Has he decided to try at RB or has Lippi let him play centre?

 

[Tom]

Thuram will probably put in some awful performances on the right just so Lippi picks him in the centre again

as for Cuper, :fool: what an idiot jeez how can you play the world's best centre back as a right back... esp. when you have J.Zanetti world class right back!!!!

 

[Desmond]

judging from the atalanta match he'll play at RB.we have too many CBs already....

 

[Nino.Brown]

Then why were Juve after Nesta and Cannavaro? That whole situation about buying either of them and selling Thuram confused me.

 

[Majed]

Well...maybe thats why juve didnt buy either Nesta or Cannavaro!

 

[DAVIDZ]

I remember Ferrara used to play RB for Napoli before we picked him up and he was a rock. So, if Ferrara still had the pace, you could switch them.

 

[Desmond]

ferrara should play in central.still a rock,or even a mountain,and is of course 100 times faster than blanc.should be nominated for senior player of the year.

 

[Tom]

realistically, with everyone fit and on form, Ferrara will make no more than the bench, since I'm sure Lippi would pick Thuram, Fresi, Iuliano, Tudor, Montero ahead of him in central defence!

 

[Desmond]

but i hope he plays,he's great!

 

[Dj Juve]

but slow :down:

 

[dpforever]

What are u guys talking about?? Thuram was great in the RB position against Atalanta .. he had one of his best matches with Juve !! Hope he keeps going on like this :strong: