Nothing is as it appears. In football in general, in the transfer market in particular and even more at home Juventus.
So, after thinking of confirming on the bench Andrea Pirlo in the next year even during the many dark periods of the season, now the Juventus management would have taken the decision to exonerate the Brescia coach despite the final in beauty with the conquest of the Italian Cup he was born in fourth place in the league.
The big favorite to lead Juventus next season is indeed Massimiliano Allegri, now close to returning to the bench that was his for five years, from 2014 to 2019, with as many league titles, four Italian Cups, two Italian Super Cups and two Champions League finals lost to Barcelona and Real Madrid.
The Bianconeri ownership, in particular, gave the turning point John Elkann, who wants a high-level profile to relaunch the team at the end of a positive season in terms of titles won, but too suffered in the league, beyond the failure to win the 10th consecutive championship.
Along the same lines as Elkann is the reconfirmed president Andrea Agnelli, decided to take back the choice made nine months ago, to bet on Pirlo, but also to give the welcome after eleven years to the sporting director Fabio Paratici, which expires next June. In his place, the right-hand man Federico Cherubini could be promoted.
The contacts between Allegri and Juventus have been going on for weeks, so the laughter and hugs during the ‘Match of the Heart’ happened when things were (almost) done.
The indecisionism of the Real Madrid. Florentino Perez has not yet chosen the heir of Zinedine Zidane and has asked Allegri to wait until Thursday: the Livorno coach is teased by the possibility of landing on one of the most prestigious bench in Europe, but the pressing of Juventus risks being too pressing to say no.
The former Italian champions are in a hurry to tighten also because the latest developments at home Inter, with divorce from Antonio Conte now one step away, they could push the CEO of the Nerazzurri Beppe Marotta to contact Allegri himself, but the Nerazzurri are weighed down by Conte’s heavy contract and by the policy of cuts imposed by Steven Zhang, at the basis of the break with the championship technician.
To confirm Allegri’s imminent return to Turin is also his historical teacher, Giovanni Galeone, who was unbalanced in an interview with ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’: “Who wouldn’t want to coach Real? Max is missing an experience abroad, but I think the real challenge for him is to return to Juve. He was sacked for technical differences with the management, but I think now they have realized that he was right and that a little something needed to be changed ”.
“Max is crazy about Chiesa and thinks he can make Kulusevski well too,” added Galeone.
OMNISPORT | 26-05-2021 10:00
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