The queen is naked: long live the queen. Easy to shoot on Madama after seeing her trudging against Barcelona. Easy and useless. What happened was predictable. If you have difficulty winning against Crotone and Verona, you cannot think of doing better against Messi and his associates. Juve pays for Pirlo’s inexperience and that of some of his youngsters. Pay for the heavy absences of the injured, Ronaldo in the first place. Bad luck pays: to the woods and goals canceled by the millimeter against Crotone and Verona, the world record of the three goals canceled in the Champions League was added on the recommendation of the Var. Morata can complain, not Juventus: the refereeing was exemplary. I am not as arrogant as that of Easter. Perfect direction: even in the distribution of cards.
An Iberian newspaper wrote that Barca won against “one of the worst and weakest Juventus in history”. It’s the truth: Barcelona could have made four.
Now we need to reset. Perhaps it would be useful for someone to join Pirlo. Not to put him under guardianship. But to help him manage the moment. And a game project that is perhaps less ambitious but more profitable. One who has the experience of victories. And above all, of the defeats.
The overall situation, due to covid, is serious. The uncertain future. And in any case, until January, it will be impossible to intervene in any case. Some excellence that is missing (from Ronaldo to De Ligt) will return. Things will get better. It is more than a wish.
But one problem will remain unsolved: the midfield. Where workers abound but there is no trace of an architect. The Pjanic – Arthur exchange (who is 24 not 22) was a financial “cool”. But at the same time a questionable technical choice. Bentancur will never be a director. Rabiot better than that will be difficult to see. Ramsey is great, but muscularly frail. McKennie is not known what fish he is. Khedira is a luxury that not even a solid club like Juventus can afford.
The moment is delicate. However, I remain of the idea that it would be ungenerous to sentence Pirlo’s work after such a short time. They say that Sarri is laughing: if it were, he should avoid it. Part of the current problems (from the sale of Can, to the non-arrival of Haaland) he created them. All this must not, however, eliminate the responsibilities of those who have assembled the team. Who on a free transfer took Rabiot and Ramsey and not Goretska who in Munich (among other things) earns less than the French and the Welsh. Every Dortmund game is a slap in the face for Paratici. Because the Norwegian blond keeps scoring. Just like, lately, Kean has started doing it again in Paris: as he did in Allegri’s Juve. There are things that need to be said. That, for example, Juventus would have needed (probably) more a Gosens than a Church. That someone like Kumbulla was to be taken, especially if you were planning to get rid of Rugani. That Tonali you shouldn’t have given up. Just like now you shouldn’t give up on Gravenberch. Because the Ajax boy is the future. While the original playing in Manchester, is close to thirty. And anyway you can’t afford it.
I am of the opinion that (although forced by the budget) some of Paratici’s choices can be reviewed. This does not make him a poor manager: he was right about Morata. On Kulusevski he will almost certainly have it. Only those who don’t work don’t make mistakes. In football, mistakes are magnified. If you commit them to Juventus (on the field, like behind a desk), you end up in the meat grinder. In any case: after having seen her naked, wrinkled and disheveled, those who consider the dam “on the avenue of the sunset” would do better to avoid unbalancing. Never take Mrs. Homicide for “over”: how distracting you, it poisons you. Like those Borgias. At the house of which no Roman could claim to have “dined”.
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