My 2 cents on this whole Ibra situation and how he is being labelled.
I think that a lot of people are using a gift that was not available to us in the summer of 2006.
That gift is hindsight.
Let's look at some things here.
Juventus were stripped of 2 scudetti.
They were demoted to Serie B.
Everyone was basically labelled as a free agent due to the demotion
The Triad was dismantled.
Several players had already left or were getting ready to leave. None of them as young as Zlatan at the time.
Revenue was going to be lost, and who knew how long it would take to recoup it.
The Juventus name might as well have been synonymous with Tuberculosis at the time
With all that being said, did anyone really have any sort of concrete idea back then how long it would take Juventus to get back to Serie A, and be scudetto winners and challenge again for the Champions League?
Nobody knew that for sure. Estimates were all over the place.
If we knew back then what we know NOW, yeah, it could be a different story. However, this guy never said a single bad word against juventus, never promised to stay, and never acted as if his Juventus career never existed (Hello Zambrotta and Thuram)
Yet, for some reason, he gets the most flack out of anyone, when he was a 25 year old rising star at the time. How would he, or anyone else know what the future held in store for the club back then?
If this guy had said a single disparaging remark about Juve after he left, then he would be what Thuram and Zambrotta are to me. He would be dead to me.
Fact is, he didn't, and he is still one of the top 5 strikers in the world.