Juventus qualified for the next Champions League. Venice beaten, but how much effort. The balance of the season also remains negative with the pass for Europe that counts
Juventus will play the next Champions League. A goal achieved, but who struggles for the bianconeri who walked on the wire of bankruptcy until the last moment of a season to forget. A data is sufficient: in the last round, that of the painful victory in Venice, for 35 minutes Roma was the one who occupied the fourth place that was worth the pass for Europe that counts. Good for Juventus that the decisive shot was Locatelli, from the penalty spot. A penalty conquered by Chico Conceiçao, one who almost certainly will not be part of the Juventus of the future despite the fact that I cost so much to bring it to Turin with the loan formula.
Tudor completed the mission for which he was recalled in Turin when everything seemed lost. He will not be confirmed, his destiny seems marked, but there are many Continassa who had to thank him. Staying out of the Champions League would have opened a hundred millions of millions of euros making the reconstruction process difficult. The money is now there. The ideas, hopefully, will be more lucid than those that accompanied last summer which was that of the narration of the opening of the new cycle, the Azzeration of the Avanti-Calcio Allegri and the Liberation.
His post -race words in Venice open a crack in Juventus’ certainties on how to manage the time of farewell. Giuntoli has guaranteed that he will be on the bench in the club world championship, he no: “My future will decide before the Club World Cup. It would not be serious for me and for anyone to go to the World Cup with an unconfirmed coach …”.
Post scriptum: the 70 points conquered at the end of this championship are less than 71 of a year ago and 72 (on the field) of the season of penalty and the management of the management. I am equal to the first year of Allegri-bis, but in the meantime there has been a very heavy market, investments that only Napoli was able to afford, however, managing to collect its goal.
Juventus in the Champions League but the season is not positive
A season with a few ups and downs, straightened when it was sliding dangerously on an inclined plane. The arrival of Igor Tudor on the bench was the moment of the turning point, he returned intensity and pragmatism to a team that had been used to playing for months almost without considering victory as an essential goal. From the elaborate football of Thiago Motta to the verticality of the Croatian who, for the sake of the Juventus colors, accepted the uncomfortable position of ferryman and completed his mission.
18 points were needed in 9 days to cling to the Champions League and 18 points arrived. Anximating, risking to slip and resorting to all the resources including the parades of Di Gregorio and the goals of those who almost certainly greet as Kolo Muani (8 goals from January onwards), one of the symbols of the market full of Contossensi signed by Cristiano Giuntoli. However, the judgment on his first full season from the head of the Juventus sports area ended is insufficient.
Also forgetting the problems of coexistence with Allegri of a year ago, the former Napoli sports director – who landed in Turin with full powers delivered by the Exor property – had a white paper to draw a immediately competitive project. The result is under everyone’s eyes: very expensive purchases they have disappointed (Koopmeiners, Douglas Luiz above all), onerous loans that have long been the spine of the team, investments well over 200 million euros only partially from the sales. One of which, Huijsen in the Premier League and then having to run to sign Kelly while the young Spanish talent will go to Real Madrid, is impossible to digest for any fan or critical.
The future of Juventus: Conte and new balances
Now the future, which will begin after the club world championship. The suggestion bears the name of Antonio Conte on whose departure from Naples are many to bet. Excavated in the summer of 2014 and since then he condemned to exile by Real House, the man who started the season of the nine consecutive badges is ready to return. An injection of Juventinity indispensable after months of relativism and confusion, a winter in which the watchword was that winning was not the only thing that matters and, perhaps, did not even count too much.
Conte also leads the need for another imposing market. Giuntoli failed in 2024, imagining that he alone manages John Elkann’s new relaunch means ignoring what happened this season. A reshuffle is not to be excluded to Continassa, which does not necessarily mean the fall of some heads (the resignation of Calvo are disconnected from the trend of the field results), but certainly leads to consider that some balances will be modified. The name that runs is that of Giorgio Chiellini: it is not said to want to put his face on the project of others, but approaching him to the locker room will certainly be a good idea.
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