The company’s line is clear: everyone is under scrutiny, starting with the coach. But at the end of the year the revolution would also affect players and management
The longest week of the Juve begins today with the beginning of withdraw decided by Merry immediately after the defeat in the Champions League against Maccabi. To tell the truth, a somewhat atypical retreat because it lacks the injured (Di Maria, Pogba and Chiesa above all) and started after a day of reflections in their own homes instead of a classic “close ranks” immediately following the 0-2 of Haifa. Until Saturday everyone at Continassa to prepare for the match against Torino, an even more delicate derby than usual. The position of the Juventus club is clear: they are all on the grillespecially the players since the choice to continue with Allegri is aimed at empowering the group, which must have no excuse.
This does not exclude the coach from the bench of the ‘under observation’, on the contrary the time range that Allegri has to deserve confirmation is reduced: eight games from here to the stop for the World Cup to show that you have the group in hand and be able to conquer the fourth place in the league which, at the moment, is the minimum goal of the Juventus season, given that in the Champions League it would take half a miracle to reach the round of 16 of final. Turin, Empoli, Benfica, Lecce, Paris Saint-Germain, Inter, Verona and Lazio: Juve’s reaction must go from here, if the results continued on the same line as at the beginning of the season then we would also seriously think about a change on the bench.
As for players and clubs, we would talk about it again at the end of the season. The impression is that Agnelli, before a total revolution, awaits the epilogue of the year, also for questions of balance: qualification for the next Champions League or not would make all the difference in the world. But the disappointment is such that, at this moment, there would be no problems in depriving oneself of players deemed not in line with the Juve project even at the cost of lose out money. All arguments that will have to wait: the company expects a turning point, a reaction starting from Saturday.
