
del Piero is an influence to the team, yes. In fact the Juve board really hate you selling him. Still, he's getting a tad oldish, and I'm sure he coud motivate, say, AC Milan for at least £20m
Yeah, I see why you sold Buffon. Puyol is not really an option I guess, since he can sometimes cost you about £35m (!).
My thing was that when I had an all dominating Juve team (which got boring quickly) I did squad rotation, so my "back-ups" had to be better than, say Legro. I used to rotate my strikers from Henry/Pazzini to Cav/Miccoli every game.
Rotate AM from Diego to Carlos Alberto (in a DB before he got signed by Porto).
Rotate 3 man defence from Puyol/Mexes/Bonera to Huth/Milito/de la Cuesta (I think)
rotate left wing Nedved/Robben,
right wing Gonzalez/Camo,
rotate midfield from Brighi/Blasi to de Rossi/Cristiano Ronaldo.
So it became unbeatable since I had subs who were also up-for-it, like Alex Brosque (usually crap) and de Corti (the token Udinese superstar that seems to be in every game).
Eventually I left for Las Palmas and couldn't really be arsed, so I set up my Brazilian third division adventure. Incidentally, I'm really struggling with Porto for some reason. I'm playing:
-----Tales------Saimon------
-----Eduardo da Silva Santos----
Alexandre--Deco---Neto----Conceicao
----Cassani----Jorge Costa-----Leonardo
----------Fernando Henrique-----------
Most those won't be at all familiar since they are Brazilian players who aren't that well known. I need a good central defender, sicne Costa is old and lost me my last match

I'm bringing in one 16 yr old and one 17 yr old defender for the future, but I need something for right now. Henrique is great, I'm gettign Dias from Sporting u19s too.
No problems up front, Tales makes mince meat of the defences and Saimon finishes it off. da Silva Santos destroys all comers. Alexandre puts some great crosses in, Deco hasn't hit top form, and Neto/ Ygor are both under performing in the DM role. I may sell Carlos Alberto to raise some funds.