All about Dzeko?
Less than a week before the official start of the 2020/2021 season, the new Juventus takes shape.
Finally the first friendly played, last Sunday against Novara, also showed us something in the facts of the Andrea Pirlo coach and not just the chatter we were used to in the last period.
Particular interest was aroused, during the televised baptism of the new Juventus, to see in large sections of the challenge the return to 3 in the defensive phase with Cuadrado and Alex Sandro pushing on the flanks.
This solution could prove to be really useful over the course of the coming season. A real tactical novelty compared to what was seen during the Sarri era. A return to the past, also thinking back to Antonio Conte’s first Juve, perhaps the best way to exploit the defensive potential currently available.
Of course today’s midfield cannot be compared at all to that of Berlin, but Kulusevski’s addition, with all the possible tactical variants, promises to be really interesting.
Obviously there is a striker missing (indeed maybe two …) but this was certainly not to be confirmed by the friendly against Novara.
The painful separation (especially in economic terms) with Higuain combined with the unavailability of Dybala already puts the new Juventus coach in front of forced choices up front in the match that will be against Sampdoria of the former Ranieri.
Dzeko or Suarez, the race for the new Juventus striker is always stopped at these two names with the latest market movements around Milik that could strongly bring the Bosnian striker of Roma back to the top of the Bianconeri (and Pirlo’s) preferences. It is a constantly evolving market.
However, we must hurry because the start of the new tournament is getting closer and closer as well as the next closure of the anomalous summer transfer market of 2020. The risk of being left with a fistful of flies in hand or having to fall back on the Giroud on duty is always alive and scares all the Juventus fans and not only.
Reverse the trend
But how did this situation come about?
The last few years of Juventus’ transfer campaign have complicated the sales at Juventus exponentially.
Salaries tripled due to the ‘fault’ of zero parameters combined with the wild search for players for budget-saving capital gains (see Danilo Cancelo exchange) have complicated the bianconeri financial resources in the medium / short term.
The crazy renewals to players over 30 (difficult, almost impossible, then to be relocated) did the rest.
All this has meant that the only ones to have had a market in recent years have been the ‘youngest’ and most attractive of the squad, namely the Cancelo, the Kean, the Can or the Spinazzola, or all people who still today would have been comfortable with due to Juventus (not surprisingly for some, like Kean, there is even talk of a return) and that were sacrificed on the altar of the balance rather than for real technical / tactical needs.
Without the necessary liquidity to operate by planning in due time, you have to ride on the opportunities that the market offers such as that of Suarez or wait for external negotiations (see Milik at Rome) without having the strength to sink the blow independently if not upon the occurrence of certain conditions and joints that do not always go in the desired direction.
For the future (the team in the meantime must absolutely continue the work of rejuvenating the squad) this trend must be reversed at all costs, otherwise it will be increasingly difficult to plan giving the impression on the outside almost to navigate the market on sight.
This year it is too late (and it was not even easy then in the year of the Covid-19 emergency) to recover finances and invest in a young striker on which to plan the future and therefore focus on strong players but in a waning phase like Dzeko or Suarez is a risk, more than calculated, necessary but not taking advantage of the great difficulties encountered in this session in the next transfer market sessions would mean not having fully understood the lesson. @stefanodiscreti
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