Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said the transfer market could have been different if Cristiano Ronaldo had left the club earlier this summer. ‘On August 28, with three days left, you don’t have the possibility to replace him’.
Giorgio Chiellini has criticised the timing of Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United and Allegri added that the Bianconeri could have done more to replace the Portuguese superstar if didn’t wait until August 28 to leave the Allianz Stadium.
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“I learned one thing,” Allegri told DAZN. “The things that are said and the things that are done are interpreted by everyone.
“I believe that Chiellini said positive things about Cristiano, an extraordinary player who it was an honour to coach, and I have coached many champions.
“It’s normal that on August 28, three days before the end of the transfer market, you don’t have the possibility to replace him. The club did well to get Kean, a player who scored important goals and I’m happy.
“It he had left a month earlier, perhaps the club would have had the opportunity to work in a different way. It’s just a question of the market, it hasn’t created any problems.”
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Juventus shareholders backed the Super League project today and Allegri said President Andrea Agnelli ‘knows very well what needs to be done’.
“I’m already struggling to be a coach, the President is on the front line, and he knows very well what needs to be done,” Allegri added. “I believe that to improve football and the quality, important decisions must be made.”
The coach said Inter ‘remain favourites’ to win the Scudetto this term, despite Napoli and Milan dominating Serie A after 10 games.
He spoke about Juventus’ targets in the Champions League and the domestic league this term.
“Juve cannot set goals, now we only have the passage to the next round in the Champions League,” he said. “Indeed, first there’s Verona.
“We must take one game at a time and then see what we are capable of doing, the others think of the rest.
“I believe that Inter remain favourites, but Milan and Napoli are doing well and have all the credentials to win the championship.
“Then, in football, you never know why you might get a run and close the gap. But it’s all stuff that doesn’t concern us, we only focus on ourselves.”
They might have had a different league standing if the idiots had just Pirlo continue.
of course we would have, he left it that late out of total spite. and beign held acccountable for being a lazy flop with a 1 million plus a year goal salary is not `being a scapegoat` Patrice; sorry don`t agree with you here. united fans are slowly finding out that we were finessed…at least he`s charging them less. never bothered to learn the language or integrate, and the same as Messi left when he found out that a Manager wouldn`t let him run the team, although i`d rather sacrifice for a midfielder than a lazy striker with temper tantrums.
@Ricky
what allegri did in 3 games this year in Champions League took Conte 2 years to do at inter ! let Max work in peace
“let Max work in peace”
Right one the money
The man is a winner, but lots of fans dont like his style and ignore his proven abilities to achieve, which leads to complete nonesense in critisizing the man.
Allegri will win the double, and UCL Semi finals at least.
FORZA JUVE … FORZA MISTER ALLEGRI
Full trust in Max Allegri. Blame the players, not him!
Juventus knew Ronaldo is leaving from the last game of last season. That is why he was left on the bench. Don’t blame it on him, the only difficulty was finding him a team that was going to pay Juventus. So don’t try to twist it. That was a mistake as well as hiring Allegri and not giving pirlo a chance.
1) CR7 should’ve left earlier, but we didn’t want him to leave, as he scored a lot of goals. 100 goals in 140-odd games is not just amazing, it’s extraordinary.
2) Say CR7 says goodbye at the end of last season, before or during the Euros. So – what changes, Allegri? Which “revolutionary’ changes were you going to go about?
Allegri is such a BS person – he’s repeatedly said the market is controlled by Nedved and Cherubini, and he can only coach the players.
We need
– 1 RB – Hakimi? Milenkovic?
– 1 CM, 2 if I’m being honest, but let’s go with 1 for now – Aouar? Who else?
– 1 #9 / CAM – Vlahovic? Anyone else?
– 1 world-class ST/CF to cover the departed CR7 – ???
To complement the shopping list above, we need to get rid of
– Sczeseny
– Danilo
– Rabiot
– Ramsey
HOW were we going to achieve all of this in 1 market? HOW?
Real life isn’t fookin’ PES/FM. You can’t just sell players left and right.
@Pinturicchio, I don’t think Danilo is bad.
Replace him with Bernadeschi on your sale list.
@Cypher
Clearly you don’t watch nearly enough Juventus games to discern which players are vital and essential, which are useful, and which are useless.
Danilo, FYI, belongs in a fourth category called “What on earth were you smoking when you bought this piece of junk?”
So, you can go back to whatever you were doing previously.
Look at the club Ronaldo plays for now. He was the right player for Juve just at the wrong time as nothing was built around him. Juve have been poor in the planning department now for at least 4 years. They recycle coaches every 3 years and that is not Juve like at all. Recruitment has been very poor except getting Chiesa and it was absurd to let Romero go for literally nothing. I do not blame Ronaldo. We all know he thinks of himself first and foremost. The comments Allegri made up his mind. Do not go in public and say he will start on the bench at times. Also the hate Allegri is getting now is a bit too much. You can only do so much with a team of this nature. However his approach and method is way too tactical and not a fit for the way football has evolved. Getting 1-0 wins is very hard to sustain week in week out as smaller teams are not afraid to attack.