Game over, fire Sarri now. This team was absolute trash on both legs, nice effort by Ronaldo. Higuain was garbage. Berna needs to go Danilo needs to go Ramsey must go Sandro has to go Bonucci needs to take a back seat. Disappointing ending of the season, but how we have been playing the last 2 months this doesn’t surprise me.
Teams been worse since Ronaldo came here, their is no chemistry at all, he is beyond criticism evidenced by his constant free kick taking... interesting that in training today, car played a poor pass and cuadrado mocked him by doing the jump in the air celebration and most of team laughed... Ronaldo then threw a very harsh tackle at Juan in a light training session... you can see photos of this online, just google it.
This will be heavy blow financially for the club. I see a few sales coming up and very little reinforcements coming in
If it was allegri today, I think we would have made it. We wouldn't conceded a goal like that. Allegri better in defense than Sarri, no doubt about that.
Allegri is overall a much better coach, don’t even put Allegri in the same class as Sarri. Sure we don’t advance, but I’m happy because it will give us room to get rid of trash and get some solid talent around here.
I wouldn't blame Ronaldo one bit if he looked for a way out, this team has let him down. No one even bothered trying today
Yep, Higuain was so bad, he shouldn’t even have started... Overall nobody other than Ronaldo came to play hard.
Who realistically wants to buy any one on this team? The only ones anyone would want would be the polish keeper, Sandro, maybe Ronaldo, and a team may take a chance on de ligt... most of the squad is on heavy bloated wages and no ones going to take on that.. we basically have like half a dozen situations that were like Alexis Sanchez at united. No one wants bonucci, Danilo, caudrado, Ramsey, gonzalo, Giorgio, mds, rabiot. Betancur may fetch a suitor but he's like a lesser asensio, won't yield much. Serie a may not be so easy with Chinese money fueling inter and American money fueling Roma now. Milan is going to be much stronger with ibra guiding them next year.
Well our standards, what meant to be Juve (that only thing that matters is winning), are slowly going to the background. Reading pre and postmatch interviews, somehow management is trying to concince us, that this was indeed quite okay season. Even given all the circumstances, there is no way that failing in the first round (not to mention with Lyon) of the CL should be in any way acceptable. Let's see what will happen in a few weeks.
All I care right now is some stability and that’s to bring in a defensive minded coach like Allegri. This team is on automatic when conceding goals left and right. It’s ridiculous.
If Ronaldo leaves then that will open up our books again and be able to bring in quality players again. This team is filled with bad contracts all around and they need to dump them.
Pjanic: The last few months haven’t gone the way we wanted to, for reasons I still haven’t been able to understand. I wanted to play more, that’s for sure Considering the way the coach played at Napoli, where everyone was involved and fully committed to that project. We played a different type of football, I am not the only one to say that, it’s obvious.
Welp...unfortunately my pre-match bad feeling is exactly what happened. Hideous PK decision (both of them, but theirs was the one that mattered) in a year full of hideous PK decisions. Something has to be done about this crap cause futbol is turning into a lottery with the current PK situation. Ramsey, once again, was invisible. We were better when Pjanic was in there as at least he can move around and circulate the ball. And he plays some defense and is good on dead balls. Ramsey does nada but take up space. Cuadrado was struggling at the beginning of half 2. He misplaced something like 6 out of 7 passes in row and gave them at least 2 semi-breaks. He had to come off. Ref was the star of that show for sure. Lyon came to be physical and he let a lot go and hence the game got out of hand a bit. Memphis was really going after MdL and should have had 2 yellows for all the redic fouls he committed. Personally, I think Sarri, Nedved and Paritici should all now be on the clock. Was not impressed with last summer and winter's transfer business and this year, if they stay, will tell us a lot about whether they are capable of rebuilding this team on the fly. Which they must do. Sarri IMHO should not be retained. He was here an entire year and I still can't tell you what we are supposed to be doing out there. It is clear many of our players can't either. Do we double down and give him another year as the teams Juve DNA continues to deteriorate, or cut ties and start fresh? I vote for the latter....and I vote to bring in someone with Juve DNA like Deschamps who knows the club through and through. Bringing in just another coach will not get it done. Unfortunately the FFA will prolly not let Deschamps go until next year after the Euros, but I think we should make a play for him. The idea of replacing Mad Max with a more proactive coach made sense. Teams are winning in Europe by attacking, not defending these days, but Sarri's ideas on attacking football, at least with our personnel, are way too slow and ponderous. We need a change. We need youth, talent and speed in our team if we want to compete for the CL title. Maybe with 4-5 more fast and skilled ball players Sarri's system could work here, but not with the cast we have now. And I doubt Arthur and Kula will make that much of a difference. Interestingly the last 2 clubs we faced used a 3 man back line. That gave them numerical advantages all over the field as they had 7v6 in attack and dropped 9, even 10 into defense. Since we can't ever seem to buy real FBs I think we need to reconsider using 3 CBs and a one or 2 wingbacks to go with our attackers. Will be interesting to see where Arthur would best fit. Anyway, I am not hugely disappointed to see this come crashing down. This has been an abortion of a season and with Dybala and all of our other injuries we weren't gonna go very much farther anyway. One thing today showed, though, was that having the last few months off instead of playing a dozen games in a few weeks was the better situation. if we had come in fresh with everyone healthy I think we had a shot to go the distance this year. Sad, really. AGE is an issue, esp. with our high wage bill for too many old players.
This team has been on the decline since that second half in the Real Madrid CL Final. Yes, Sarri has been poor and should go, but there really needs to be a lot of turnover in the next couple of years. Continuing to dominate a poor league doesn't equate to a successful decision. Sarri, Cuadrado, Danilo, Bonucci, Chiellini, Alex Sandro, De Sciglio, Matuidi, Khedira, Ramsey, Douglas Costa, Bernardeschi and Higuain all need to have their respective places in the squad considered. Aside from Pjanic we really ought to start getting rid of these guys and buying promising youngsters close to being great players alla Arthur.