Juventus Coach Massimiliano Allegri warns “to win the Scudetto, you have to earn it on the pitch”.
The Bianconeri start the Serie A season as overwhelming favourites, having won five in a row and added the likes of Gonzalo Higuain, Miralem Pjanic and Dani Alves.
“First of all, nothing is easy – especially in football,” Allegri cautioned in his pre-Fiorentina Press conference.
Juventus Coach Massimiliano Allegri warns “to win the Scudetto, you have to earn it on the pitch”.
The Bianconeri start the Serie A season as overwhelming favourites, having won five in a row and added the likes of Gonzalo Higuain, Miralem Pjanic and Dani Alves.
“First of all, nothing is easy – especially in football,” Allegri cautioned in his pre-Fiorentina Press conference.
“You can’t necessarily say that because Juventus have made some good signings – Higuain, Pjanic, [Medhi] Benatia, [Marko] Pjaca, Dani Alves – that it’s a mathematical equation and we should win the Scudetto.
“To win the Scudetto you have to earn it on the pitch, like going forward in the Champions League. We’ll take it a step at a time, which is the way it should be.
“The first overall objective is to get to March and be fighting for three competitions, to be fighting in the League, the Last 16 of the Champions League and the Coppa Italia. From then on we’ll play our season.
“Tomorrow, when the season starts, all 20 teams have zero points, so to take the points tomorrow we’ll have to play a great match.
“It’s definitely not easy, because in every year that passes – Juventus have won the Scudetto for five in a row – the level of difficulty gets higher and higher.
“The other teams become more aggressive, and as we saw at the beginning of last year, unconsciously there’s a drop-off.
“So we should look at what we did last year and try to put it into practice from the start of the season where, again, the games are more difficult and complicated than over the last two months.”
Paul Pogba left the Turin club for a world record fee this summer, and Allegri was asked about the Frenchman’s departure.
“We didn’t speak, because among other things he was in America until the day before he went to Manchester. We had a very good relationship, like I do with all the players.
“Maybe he was still hurting because he lost to me in a challenge at football and basketball, so it was for that reason he decided to leave Juventus.”
Juan Cuadrado is being linked with a return to the Old Lady, but the Coach couldn’t give any update.
“I won’t speak about the transfer market because we have the game tomorrow,” Allegri shrugged.
“Above all because these two games in August are as deadly as games in January, though you’re perhaps in a different condition in January, the team is settled and you just need a few tweaks in the transfer market.
“These two games with the transfer window still open, the window that matters, are always a trap.
“So I won’t speak about transfers, because the transfer market is down to the club and the club has had a great transfer campaign.
“We have 15 days to complete the squad, then there are players on other teams who I don’t want to talk about at all.”