You cannot change what you love but I want Sarri and Jorginho to win. Of course you are right regarding other seasons. But we could be in a situation where in the first week of October we are out of both things that were our objective. That was not the case in previous years. Of course ADL is to blame and not Ancelotti. Today the keeper and wingbacks lost us the game and these are positions we should have strengthened. But Ancelotti has come out in defense of ADL saying he has created a very competitive team. So if we fall behind 6 points at this stage and fail to beat Liverpool then Ancelotti takes blame because he is publicly defending ADL. How can we attack ADL when our coach says this is the squad he wanted?
There is no way you can say by October we are out of both race. Things can happen esp in the league. Though chances are very low we can hope to win anything but just compare Juve Squad + Ronaldo and look at number of class players they have? No way we can compare. Pjanc vs Fiabian Ruiz? Ronaldo against Hysaj? I can count our number of "semi-world class" players with less than the finger on one hand. I don't know in real life you are your own boss or you work for others. But coaches do not go on public to criticize their own club owner or management about squad failings and demand improvement. If need be these concerns are always made in private otherwise this will just invite media speculation and he will be quickly shown the exit door. An experienced coach like CA must have spot the areas of weakness ( hence his rotation to try to bring up other players ) but his hands are tied if bloody ADL doesn't want to spend. If you have a better coach than CA that is available, in both experience and achievement, please suggest. Other wise, we should throw our support to our current coach and stop making these endless comparison with Sarri. By all records, compared to Sarri's first season, I think CA did an adequate job so far. Even Sarri didn't manage to win at Juventus stadium until his 3rd season. In this particular match, Juve got ahead with a luck bounce off the post for the 2nd goal. If we didn't went down to 10, we probably won't concede the 3rd goal. If CA resigned in frustration, which is not impossible due to ADL, we will be in real trouble. ADL will get another non-name mid-table coach to fill in and we will start to really linger in mid-table mediocrity rather than being top 3 in the league. By then we will whine about how good life was under CA.
You are right in all you say. I don’t want Ancelotti to leave. But he has to stop goong out of his way to thank ADL for what he has done with the squad. Anyway ADL fired Sarri for not winning the lague and doing better in CL. All I am saying is it needs to be pointed out now that we may potentially know in October that we cant’t do this year either. In my view neither Sarri nor Ancelotti has the tools to compete. But Ancelotti says ADL has given him everything needed to win. Anyway hope you get my point.
I got it. But I think Ancelotti is one of those older generation coaches which give a lot of deference to his superior. So he might be saying this out of political correctness. Surely in private he must have raised options to strengthen the squad to ADL. I am not convinced like what some here said that Ancelotti come here for the pay cheque only and for retirement, and risk ruining his legacy. Anyway, we shall see in the months to come. So far this season, there are promising signs but we remain a team in transition.
My problem is simple - he is changing too much. Just play the same team and put Ruiz in Jorginho's old position. Yes, Ruiz isn't as disciplined as Jorginho yet, but they both remind of each other in the way they used to play in their former clubs before joining Napoli. We already have a great and deep midfield, don't know why Ancelotti messes with that. What we truly need imo. is a pacy player up front since Callejon and arguably Ounas are our only fast'ish forwards, and questions can be asked whether they are good enough to compete for the big silverware. I still regret how we couldn't sign a proper RW talent. It is also terrible management not to sell Diawara and Hysaj if bids of 50 mill. were genuine.
We won't play 4-3-3 and after Jorginho I am good with that. Play ------------Insigne / Mertens ----- NEW / Milik------------- Zielinski / Verdi----Fabian / Diawara ---Allan / Rog ---Callejon/Ounas Ghoulam / Rui---KK / Luperto --Albiol / Mak---NEW / Malcuit -------------------------Meret / Karnezis--------------------------------- Sell Hamsik, Younes, Hysaj and buy a proper striker and right back. Feel only right side could be strengthened.
Odd. These don’t show up on my home page for weeks. I can’t see it. So we had them for other games too? Can see it now if I click show ignored content.
Meret now out until mid November. It was stupid to buy this guy. He was injured all of last year. ADL was so greedy hoping he can make good money on Meret that he ignored everything. We could have bought Perin for half the money.
https://www.football-italia.net/128935/guardiola-napoli-are-incredible This guy loves us. Every year he is praising us. I think he would be willing to coach us in a few years.
He does lol. It's one thing to say nice things about us when we were paired in the same group as Man City but he seems to go out of his way to praise us lol
OK Juve comfortably winning again. We have no chance at the league. Also everywhere they play it is sold out.
It has become so boring that Allegri said we have to set new targets like clean sheets. I can only see Inter getting a result against them this year.