President Andrea Agnelli broke his silence to admit he feels ‘ashamed’ and must ‘apologise’ to fans after the Champions League defeat to Maccabi Haifa, but Max Allegri ‘will remain the Juventus coach.’
It was the final straw in a so-far pretty much disastrous campaign in both Serie A and Europe, which leaves them bottom of the group and potentially out of the Champions League already.
The calls are now deafening to sack their coach Allegri, but it was President Agnelli who surprisingly went to speak to Sky Sport Italia after the match.
“This is a difficult night in a difficult period. It is one of the most difficult periods and the moment to take responsibility, which is why I am here,” said Agnelli.
“I feel ashamed for what is happening, I am angry, but I also know that football is played with 11 men, you lose and win with 11.”
Inevitably, the patron was asked if Allegri would be fired, but held firm in his beliefs.
“In a situation like this, it’s not about one person. It’s a matter to be dealt with by a whole group. We feel ashamed, we apologise to our fans, because we know they must feel ashamed to walk around at the moment.
“Allegri is the coach of Juventus and he will remain as the coach of Juventus.”
Is it true that the club is refusing to consider axing Allegri because of how much his salary and long-term contract would weigh on their finances?
“No, no, you are completely off track here. It cannot be the fault of the coach if we don’t win a single tackle on the field.
“Juventus have always evaluated situations at the end of the year. I always struggled to consider a dismissal during a season and I continue to believe that.
“This is a group of 80-90 people working here and we must rediscover our spirit, allowing the team to put its qualities onto the pitch.”
Either fire him or hire Conte to teach him how to motivate a team
You can’t win tackles when u bring in Slowredes, let go of Rovella and Zakaria, and not start Bremer in a must win game ? Also, why not PERIN instead of that pole ? Whose fault is that ? Whose decision was to sign Kostic who can’t get a cross in or beat player 1:1 and not go for Kavara or Mudryk ? Whose decision was to extend the contract of his errand boy DeSciglio and keep Sandro ?
Slowredes+Kostic is 40+ M down the drain 🙁
Get rid of all these average foreigners
Waste of money
Agnelli taking the team down with his pride. FFS, Allegri currently is not fit to run a team in Serie C1.
Soule looked good in his last two appearances. He adds much needed creativity and heart to the team, but he only plays when the result is already decided.
I despise Allegri, but today’s performance lacked heart and was shameful and that is on the players. Allegri is a fool for benching Bremer and continuing to start cuadrado and paredes.
So Mr Aghnelli you should go is well. Gone a make new team with your friend Allegri. Idiots
CALMAAA!!!
Agnelli is a genius. He will soon ditch the fantasy of a super league and draw up new plans for bush league calcio. There he can delight in the weekly humiliations with other bush league teams.
If not now ..when is a coach ever sacked according to Agnelli??
Team not working
Players not performing
No points
No clean sheets
No scoring chances created
No possession
.. and the list continues
OMG
PhD Max is a freaking genius. He has no plan but still that is in effect a plan. Bush league calcio is possible and he has cracked it. Grande Max grande. Next year he is going to delight us with mountain goat calcio and he has all the Roberto King Carlos Sandro and bricklayer Cafu Danilo’s of the world to implement it.
BASTA BASTA BASTA. ALLEGRI MUST GO. RUINING THE CLUB AND BEING ALLOWED TO DO SO! BASTA BASTA BASTA!
Oh really, but soon there are no fans left to feel ashamed. Obviously this boring outdated tactics does not work, even with 10 men defending the bus is too small without BBC.
Time for fans to boycott!
I’m not watching any of their games in protest. Allegri is the symptom of a much deeper malaise – the club is flawed right at the top all the way to recruitment especially which has been a disaster.
We got rid of a young lad called Rovella to Monza. He outshone all of our midfield – Paredes / Rabiot / Mckennie when we lost to them in Serie A. There are many more examples of this flawed transfer strategy. No matter what, “Rabiot sempre Rabiot”
You can’t blame the coach when your team cannot win a tackle on the field!
omg! hahaha!
Admit it… he is only there because you can’t afford to fire him and you hoping that he will resign.
Congratulations Agnelli!!! You definitely take the right decision. Get ready now to finish 7th or 8th this year and in the Champions League group you may not even finish 3rd.
Get rid of him now!
FI, you dont show my comments so often. Whats wrong with this site?????
dest many words are banned thats why, most negative words are banned,
pathetic, disgraceful
I have no words I’m not going to watch another game in 2022 agnelli is a fool !!!!!!! He should leave too
Put together an Italian block of players get rid of Kean Bremer vlahovic etc go back to the Italian core and thing will shape up.
Susi is the allegri’s fans
Max, please do the right thing.
Work out a little backroom deal with Agnelli & Co. (eg 50% pay if you walk), call a press conference and fall on your own sword.
You will earn nothing but respect.
I’m going with your word…Trying to put the same situation during Pirlo stint, if it is not one’s mistake that a club fail….please tell why Pirlo terminated in 1 season ? Why is this inconsistency ?
I agree with Italian we need a core of Italian players, plus we have no stars. We need a striker that scores like Del Piero did… We have let go of promising players that press on the ball like Luca Pellegrini, Rovella, Cambiosa – Id rather let these younger players develop into studs. They could be a core group to keep together with Miretti and Soule.