30+ years of success in football summed up in a single sentence on tuz
i'm used to simplistic messages online and i agree with allegri's bottom line that football is simple, but this one is probably a tiny bit too stripped down even for my taste
it's mostly on the players, buddy. this is not a 90 points squad, very-very far from it. these players lack character, balls, grinta, call it whatever. they can't perform under pressure. that's been the case with juventus players for years. i don't want to single out anyone, but since ronaldo and chiellini himself left/retired, there's not a single true leader in the locker. there are good players, there are physically strong players, there are fast ones, dudes that can shoot, run or tackle, but their character is weak as fuck. there's not a single juventus player from the last 5-6 seasons who left the team and became a star elsewhere. huijsen is the only one whose career only started at juve so it's mostly natural progress for him. the rest plays for monaco, dortmund, atleti as a sub, marseille, lazio, clubs like this. even de ligt, who was ajax's captain at 18, turned out to be mentally weak for a leader. out of our current squad, literally zero players would start for any of our teams during our 9-year scudetto run. maybe vlahovic instead of matri, but even cambiaso over estigarribia is more than debatable lol. tuz would take bentancur back, but he's barely avoiding relegation with spurs. besides huijsen, there's not a single player who left after our last scudetto i'd take back as a starter. i liked savona and some players like soulé or alberto costa obviously had some potential,
so yeah, i could go on, but it's the players. this is a ~70 point squad, let's face it. if locatelli and david scored their penalties we'd be in cl. same if di gregorio wasn't a fucking fraud. and so on.
if our overpaid lazy weak ass motherfuckers believe for a second that their failure is on the coach, that would send the worst possible message. backing the coach in this situation is not a choice, it's the only possible choice for any club manager. and it's just a rumor by some italian _journalist. and spalletti will probably resign anyway