Pirlo Officially Appointed New Coach - Allegri/Sarri Out!

Time is growing short on CR7’s career and he will be gone either now or in the spring while they can still get money for him....

 

I think he's gonna ride his contract out....not many teams wanna pay him that salary at age 35/36...psg might but he wont go that low and PL teams arent as they used to be. Everyone knows he got 2-3yrs max

 

I kinda like this idea. It is too hard to find good FBs and we don't have any of them, so Was and CBs makes sense to me. Plus we were overwhelmed in MF the last few games against teams playing with 3 in the back.

https://www.football-italia.net/157183/pirlos-juventus-revert-three

 

There is def. the possibility we concede even more goals next year. I would say it isn't likely, but certainly possible Pirlo has never coached a professional game in his life, he's never trained a team in his life. Not to mention that probably our best CB will be out until October or November.

I would be ok if we get up goals, as long as we can adopt an identity from Pirlo, even if it is archaic and extremely defensive. I don't want to watch the game and wonder whether the team is finally going to start moving the ball quick enough as the coach wants. We were literally fighting 4-8 years of a certain mindset and we couldn't do it and the team looked like crap 90% of the time.

 

Another bianconero joins the coaching staff:

https://www.football-italia.net/157293/report-tudor-joins-pirlo-juve

 

Being in this year's CL final doesn't make PSG "low". I'd say they are in ascendancy, while the usual suspects from Italy are sinking. Let's see how they comport themselves against Bayern before we rank them as lower.

 

I think PSG can give the Bayern we saw today a game.

 

Julien Laurens brought up an interesting fact that the only other team to go unbeaten into the CL final was Milan in 92/93 I believe and ended up losing to Marseille.

 

Radio Radio is reporting that Alessandro Nesta has been approached by Andrea Pirlo to be the assistant at Juve!

At least Nesta has experience in coaching and almost gained promotion with Frosinone.....

 

So Pirlo, Tudor and Nesta.....that is quite a combo of talents.

 

As they have the most coaching experience , Tudor and Nesta will probably do most of the coaching and working on tactics and techniques. Pirlo will probably just oversee everything and have the final word on the lineups but I’m sure they will be coaching as a group.

It will probably be like when Angelo Alessio , Massimo Carrera assisted Antonio Conte...

 

Anyone hear or read if Pirlo is going to play or participate in any scrimmages during training sessions? He didn't look too good in his final year of MLS ball. If anything, he was pretty bad and finally benched by Patrick Vieira in his final campaign.

 

I hope not, I think he must do everything to distinguish that he is the authority now at least early in his first season. The players must know he is serious about coaching. With that said, it doesn't mean he can't be a likeable coach, just establishing boundaries and his role will be important in my opinion.

 

Andrea Pirlo had his first interview today as the Juventus first team manager.

https://www.juventus.com/en/news/articles/pirlo-i-want-to-bring-back-enthusiasm-and-win

of note on style of play...
"I want to bring back the enthusiasm, with proactive football and domination of the play. I said two things to the lads: 'you must always have the ball' and 'when you lose it, you must get it back quickly'.

"I'm convinced that I'm in the right place at the right time. Tactically, we could play with either three or four at the back. I have no fixed models. We must always be willing to make sacrifices, when there is a goal we all have to reach it together."

 

How refreshing is it to hear that we don't have to play the same exact way all the time?

 

How refreshing to see Juve mentality back...i dont know what this team was this last 3yrs...it was nothing like any other Juve. Im hoping Pirlo can get that out of these players or we actually make good signings.

Surely this week we need to finalize departures of Higuain and Khedira so we can get on with transfer window

 

Interesting speculation on Pirlo's tactics;

https://www.football-italia.net/157853/juventus-plan-unusual-3-4-3-dzeko

 

So Nesta turned down Pirlo's offer to be an assistant?

 

Well it was a system that pretty much saved the tail end of his career so.

 

The team looked quite labored at the end of both 45's which I guess is to be expected. I really want to get Douglas Costa moved, he is too showy largely without the end product (even though he assisted Ramseys goal). McKennie looked strong out there, he will push the starters and would not be surprised if he ends up locking down a spot. Luca Pellegrini will be interesting if he stays, I thought he was anemic offensively but apparently, it is the other way around after watching this morning.