After 95 players that Sacchi picked, he mostly used his Milan and Parma players in the final rounds...
Baggio saved his ass in '94. Great talent and he insisted on his idiotic tactics. One of the worst coaches in the history of gli Azzurri.
Did less with more than any manager I can remember. I don't count the team that was screweled in Korea/Japan.
Prandelli & Ventura were bad as well but they had no where the talent that Sacchi had at his disposal. The fact that he was unable to play Baggio & Zola together just showed how arrogant of an asshole he was with his f^cking tactics. Playing Signori as a midfield winger, what a waste.
Carlitos in trouble already? ADL ought to go down and manage the team: https://www.calciomercato.com/en/ne...e-in-the-night-for-under-fire-ancelotti-29895
EdF also? https://www.calciomercato.com/en/news/latest-conte-zidane-lined-up-if-edf-fails-in-september-59564
Now they are reporting that Serie B is NOT suspended. Man what a disaster the FIGC is. And then they wonder why Italy didn't make the WC.
There were 3 teams that could not meet the financial guarantees for Serie B. So they were removed. So three teams that think they should get promoted are suing. As usual, the Italian justice system screws things up.
Everything in Italy is a mess. I wish Juve weren't a part of it but alas not much we can do about that
But but but it's because all the big teams in Italy aren't developing Italians....helps manage the pain of the joke that is the USSF.
Tangent time... ^^^ Agree with all of this. And yet the opposition genuinely believe that Juventus is the problem; that by eliminating us, all of the rest of it would magically correct itself. The simple truth is that it's the Lega Calcio and the FIGC that are holding us back, and our continued success, to them, only serves to expose their intrinsic and intransigent incompetence. Which is why they are forever denigrating our success rather than using it as a platform and a springboard to advance reforms that would modernize and restore Serie A's competitiveness. The simple fact is this: Juventus needs a European super league. That's the only way that we will be able to fulfill our true potential. For years I've only thought of it as potentially hopeful but factually speculative (UEFA would never allow for it, smaller clubs and lower leagues would sue, the enormous amount bureaucratic red tape, etc, etc) but now, more and more as the seasons pass, and as our success has enabled us to grow, comparatively, by leaps and bounds, I think it is imperative. And I think that Andrea Agnelli agrees. It can hardly be a coincidence that, after he was elected, one of the first things that he discussed openly at the convening of the ECA was about laying the groundwork for establishing a European super league. Not potentially, but realistically. You can't fight what's bred in the bone. This is a homegrown catastrophe, and though its evolution may have been incremental, nonetheless everyone knew, well before it arrived, that it would be a catastrophe. And it's not like this was hermetic knowledge that everybody kept to themselves and dare not speak its name: all of football, not only within Italy but throughout the rest of Europe, openly discussed the degeneration of Italian football for years. There may have been disagreements about the true nature and the actual source of the crisis, but nobody denied that it was and is, in fact, a crisis. Much of it is largely because of the nature of the culture. But Italy will not change, and as the league and the FIGC have proven, not only in word but in deed, that they would all see Juventus destroyed before they would allow for the kinds of changes needed to accommodate our success. Today is just another illustration of just how acute and deep the problems run. The corruption and incompetence effects every facet of Italian football. And the only reason anybody would scapegoat a single club for any of this (and we all know which club that is; and frankly, so do they even if their pride would never allow them to admit it) is because they actually don't give a damn about Italian football. The only thing that matters to them is their hatred of Juventus, and they would see the rest of it destroyed and incinerated if it meant that they could enact vengeance upon us for our success. Which is why any Juventus supporter who bothers to care about the rest Italian football, in any capacity, is a fool. Football, as a business and as a sport, is about competition. That competition is Darwinian, and we've already had to survive one reckoning. Anybody who believes that it will not happen again is simply seeking refuge in denial and the choice will be the same in the future as it was in the past: it's either us or them. And thankfully for us, our club president has already chosen his answer (whether or not that will be enough is beyond his control).
I have been predicting a Euro super league for the last 3-4 years. Once Agnelli and Bayern's President guy teamed up, it started to look inevitable to me anyway. It is absolutely what we need and I can't help but think there will be so much money in doing it that it is kind of inevitable. Both PSG and Bayern would be a lot better off too. Then Serie A will get its wish. An Italian league without Juventus. Like Lippi once said to a complaint Juve fanbase when he stepped down. "Let's see this Juve without Lippi." Of course he was right and after Carlito couldn't win here back he came. So "Let's see this Serie A without Juventus". But you can bet that the moment we are gone and the league falters, Juventus WILL STILL BE BLAMED for the folly of the FIGC and Serie A even though we are gone. 'Cause of our "selfishness" no doubt! Can't win with that crowd, so let's just move on.