Which ONE transfer was the biggest mistake? (21 Viewers)

[Juve_Kosova]

As Rab said, to many.. But not giving Deschamps the power a manager should have in a club was the start maybe.. Then Amauri, selling Diego for 13, letting Trez leave, buying Martinez, getting Poulsen insted of Xabi.. etc! damn!

 

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[Salvatore]

Neglecting the fullback position to go cheap and get players such as Grygera and Grosso.

 

[Gian]

Letting Giovinco go to Parma for little money while we could've used him more than anyone now.

 

[WΏΏdy?]

Not landing dzeko

imagine krasic-dzeko playing together

 

[Juve_Kosova]

Without a question, buying Diego was the biggest mistake his club did. Not because Diego is a bad player or anything, but because we built the entire team around this guy. Our entire tactical setup depended on Diego. He was supposed to be our new savior, and I think it's that remarkable expectation that was set by the board that really fucked things up for us.

If instead of Diego; we had bought two wingers that year in place of Camo and Nedved; we would be in a much better position in my opinion. Too much was required of Diego, too much was expected of him; we tried to implement a system that we were not at all accustomed to. It was a gamble, and we lost.

The after effects of that gamble are still visible today. Selling him was not as big a mistake as buying him in the first place. Diego was never supposed to play with Juve.

With the right coach, Diego would have been perfect here. And ofc with the right players also, he was "alone" in everything he did.. No one was there to take advance of the space he created. And with the wrong midfield he had to come way back the field and bring the ball forward.. Xabi would have helped.

 

[blondu]

One name.

ALESSIO SECCO.

Our biggest mistake.

agreed

 

[Alen]

Without a question, buying Diego was the biggest mistake his club did. Not because Diego is a bad player or anything, but because we built the entire team around this guy. Our entire tactical setup depended on Diego. He was supposed to be our new savior, and I think it's that remarkable expectation that was set by the board that really fucked things up for us.

You could be right here. Tough to pick the biggest mistake, but in hindsight this really fucked us up.

Ranieri made too many mistakes and it wasn't easy to trust him, but he still knew our team very well and he knew that a transition from 4-4-2 (the game plan we were adopting for years, with players used to it) to something like 4-3-1-2 without wing play should have been done gradually and not try to do it immediately.
We wanted to do it by buying one single player. Even if that player was much better than Diego, we were still going to suffer a lot because we didn't have the full backs and we didn't have other players who could play those tactics.
The result is known. 7th placed last year and a huge set back in the following years.
Diego as a player might be good, and he is indeed very talented, but the decision to buy him and set the club around him, without improving some other vital positions for 4-3-1-2, turned out disastrous.

P.S: The decision to immediately sell him is also something I still can't get over. We wanted a 4-3-1-2 with Diego, we bought Diego, then the logical move was to improve other positions instead of going back to 4-4-2, selling Diego and changing almost everything.

Everything about Diego turned out to be a disaster.

 

[blondu]

and it's not diego's fault ... + i want to mention a thing again for the haters, diego was one of the few players that had a mediocre season. Some of the members of this forum kept and keep bashing him.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

The gross neglect of the defence (if to a slightly lesser extent this season) since 2006.

 

[K.O.]

Keeping Amauri and letting Trezeguet go.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Despite the bad thing that turned out to be, it simply can't be the worst thing we pulled. We never had so many problems in attack area. Well, we had but not that much. We've scored many goals, but it's defense that kept us back constantly.

 

[rounder]

You could be right here. Tough to pick the biggest mistake, but in hindsight this really fucked us up.

Ranieri made too many mistakes and it wasn't easy to trust him, but he still knew our team very well and he knew that a transition from 4-4-2 (the game plan we were adopting for years, with players used to it) to something like 4-3-1-2 without wing play should have been done gradually and not try to do it immediately.
We wanted to do it by buying one single player. Even if that player was much better than Diego, we were still going to suffer a lot because we didn't have the full backs and we didn't have other players who could play those tactics.
The result is known. 7th placed last year and a huge set back in the following years.
Diego as a player might be good, and he is indeed very talented, but the decision to buy him and set the club around him, without improving some other vital positions for 4-3-1-2, turned out disastrous.

P.S: The decision to immediately sell him is also something I still can't get over. We wanted a 4-3-1-2 with Diego, we bought Diego, then the logical move was to improve other positions instead of going back to 4-4-2, selling Diego and changing almost everything.

Everything about Diego turned out to be a disaster.

Yes, I agree. I think it was a panic attack by the board. A team like Juve is just not accustomed to finishing 7th in the league; they believed that everything was wrong about the 4-3-1-2 system and therefore everything must be changed. This was a big mistake. Like you mentioned; had we kept Diego and improved upon some positions; not only would we have been better off, but I think it would have been more economical as well. I say more economical because instead of buying all the wingers we did; we could have spend the money in getting a world class striker, two world class fullbacks and we would have been a much better team.


I wouldn't be saying this if we sold Diego for more, but the amount for which we let him go was ridiculous.

 

[Gamaro]

letting Amauri pass by the gate of the club is a big mistake itself.

 

[Firestarter]

Biggest mistake? Our policy led by amateurs after we came back from Serie B.


In the last two years? Buying players without knowing what are we going to use them for while having mediocre coaches.


Biggest transfer mistake? Not getting Xabi and getting Poulsen instead, selling Diego for that laughable price and getting Martinez for even more laughable price.

Not more to add, really...

 

[Hust]

Keeping Amauri and letting Trezeguet go.

Yes!

 

[X Æ A-12]

The worst mistake was that last minute decision to revolutionize our attack at the end of last summer. Losing Diego and Trezeguet in awful deals and then trying frantically to sign the first Italian we could.

Probably will end up costing us 4th place.

 

[Lucky Luke]

Biggest mistake? Our policy led by amateurs after we came back from Serie B.

ever worse,our policy in calpiopoli trials,we got relegated and none was there,adequate to defend us

 

[sebastian]

the biggest mistake is paying way to much money on all the players we bought

 

[Hust]

Despite the bad thing that turned out to be, it simply can't be the worst thing we pulled. We never had so many problems in attack area. Well, we had but not that much. We've scored many goals, but it's defense that kept us back constantly.

Our defense tended to outscore our offence at times. And if our offence could have scored more ergo amauri we could have won more games and our defence wouldn't have to be under that pressure constantly.

 

[Stevie]

Such a depressing thread. There have been so many mistakes and the sad thing is i think there will be many more to come.