Michele Crisciello on TMW: “There is a month to go before the transfer market closes but, never like this year, Serie A is sleeping soundly. It is not certain that buying means improving or spending is equivalent to winning but certainly the last season has shown that many clubs would have needed serious reinforcements. Problem two: many presidents have changed coaches and we know that, for example Lazio, if you switch from Inzaghi to Sarri, the world changes; everything changes. We can’t always wait the last two weeks to do everything. . Compared to 2020 we have spent 500 million euros less. It is useless to talk about single clubs because evil is common. We understand, however, even the clubs that are afraid to make investments in this climate of uncertainty. In three weeks the championship starts again and we have a government that has not yet told us how to reopen the season ticket campaign and how many people will be able to enter the stadium. The fault is not entirely with the clubs. We have won a European championship but the Institutions were only good at running catwalks and giving triumphant interviews.
Juventus takes Kaio from Santos and made a nice blitz but we don’t think that with this operation the bianconeri have raised the quality of the team of the future. Juve needs urgent grafts. The first is Locatelli who we consider done but also serves Pjanic in this team. The midfield must be fixed definitively and in attack we understood that Allegri will focus everything on Dybala, it is no coincidence that he wants the renewal, but he will also have to think about how to manage Ronaldo because despite the rumors he has little market for those figures and with that identity card. He will remain on the back of Juve and probably, to weigh less, Ronaldo will also be “forced” to renew.
Napoli against Bayern Munich very well. Spalletti’s team was fabulous, despite a half purchase. To solve the problem Insigne urgently but Napoli do not underestimate the summer market. Reinforcements are needed and the illusions end in mid-August. The season will be long and hard but this Napoli must urgently return to the Champions League. The competition will be fierce and Spalletti is aware that someone is still missing from this team. Certainly the big ones is the one who has to do less but doing little is not the same as doing nothing. De Laurentiis, in recent years, has never raised the bar; he was wrong because as happened last year at Inter, in these ten years, it could happen to Napoli to sew a Scudetto on their chest and we know what it would mean to win a Scudetto in Naples.
It was the summer of regrets and it will also be the winter of regrets. Italy lost three symbols of this Serie A too easily. We made them flee to France, Spain and Ukraine in too much silence. We should be better at retaining valuable professionals. Donnarumma made us win a European championship and even if we insult him, the family and Raiola we don’t solve the problem. Our national team goalkeeper left Milan, Milan took 0 euros and no Italian club (only Juventus could) was able to keep him in Italy. A waste. Different story, but not too much, that of De Paul. Udinese waited three years to sell it. Atletico Madrid paid him 35 million euros, not 200, and no one in Italy anticipated Simeone. Here the fault is above all of Milan who returned to the Champions League and for how Pioli plays, 4-2-3-1, he would have needed the Argentine in accessible figures. Last but not least, a blatant mistake of our football, Roberto De Zerbi’s farewell. Losing De Zerbi, who moved to Ukraine, is a setback to Serie A. On Sportitalia we are seeing all his matches live and exclusively. Even the Ukrainians are realizing that he is two gigs ahead of all the other coaches and, as his colleagues say, he is the only one who makes the restart from the bottom not for fashion but for objective advantages. Serie A will be poorer than a few months ago. Mourinho is back but we will have to see if he is the same as a while ago. We also lost Conte and certainly without surprise shots it will be a championship with less appeal than the one that brought Inter back to the top of Italy. You are right, Juve has Allegri again and not Pirlo. Yes, I had forgotten that. And it’s not cheap. Sorry but it’s hot in August … “
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