I've also been trying to figure out what I think the real issue is.
It's not the coach or the DS or the players. The club owner doesn't have enough involvement to affect the results on the pitch. He pays for the new players just fine and somehow they all turn out shit.
What was clicking 2011-2020 which isn't now? I don't get it. Marotta was all about the leftovers, gambles and opportunity buys.
One factor i’d sure say is the lack of experienced leaders in this current Juve compared to the one from that winning era, more so those that we already had here and didn’t even require purchasing, legends like Buffon, Del Piero, Chiellini, Marchisio that were at Juve for many years, whom had also experienced years where we struggled, however they were world class in quality/potential and still had a fierce winning mentality in them, basically the winning core was already there from the previous successful era which was an luxury to have on top of the newer signings that would find it easier to adapt and have the right conditions and advice around them to improve.
Then another factor is also the competition on the market today compared to back then, there were Barca,Real, Bayern, PSG and top 5 Premier League that were outbidding/challenging us, but not much else, nowadays it’s tougher because there’s Saudi,Turkish and even 8-20th placed Premier League teams that compete for the same players which leaves us with way less quality options to pick from without overpaying and risking more in our desperate attempts to make up for lost ground, because i agree we’ve surely spent a lot over this last few years, just that on many costly flops.
Not to mention the importance of having the right scouts, SD and coaches too in order to maximize potential and make the right picks according to the needs of the team, and then probably many other factors also whom are difficult to define, from Serie A’s overall financial decline in those years all the way to the present day transfers potential of our league rivals compared to back then when for many years we've barely had any serious Seria A competitors challenging us on the market internally.
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it's same problem that was with vlahovic and before that higgy and ronaldo. the club just is not a attack minded club. it's all about not losing instead of winning. just look at how top clubs like bayern, madrid or inter pass the ball around vs how juve does it.
That’s not really a good comparison considering that neither Higuain nor CR7 had actually flopped here when checking how many important goals they’ve scored and the number of trophies won here, not even close to some of the flops we are referencing to in this current team.
But i won’t disagree that we surely don’t make it easy for ourselves with the way we set up to play.