I understand people were angry when he left..but its been 7 years since he did, and having such an important player in the team can take us that much closer to a CL. I can see him doing extremely well with Pirlo.... and Vucinic if they can keep their ego's aside.
It's still France though. You can say that stadiums are older, but Italy lives with football. In the 90' people were saying that if football fans die, they go to Italy, where they read lot's of sport newspapers, watch hundreds of football programs and then watch amazing matches. Mentality has not changed. France in this aspect is totally meh.