Alegri leaving Juve

stipe · May 18, 2019

Bruce Wayne said:
Indeed, and of course Italy has a land border with Slovenia, and is just across the water from Croatia. Bound to be a connection, especially as, as you say, the Sudi Tirol area of Italy was part of the same Austro-Hungarian empire for a long time.

Trieste too for centuries if i recall correctly, also Milan and Venice spent some time under Habsburgs, so yeah old Habsburg Monarchy really connected vast areas of Central, Eastern and Mediterranean parts of Europe (Empire spread on territory of what is now modern Ukraine all they way to Italy, from north where it controlled parts of Poland with Krakow all the way to what is now Albania on Adriatic, it was huge and incredibly ethnically diverse country). Of course with modern times things change, people all around the world are all now much more linked, but i guess these kind of old links still got some importance in people minds

Mikey_Fitzgerald · May 20, 2019

Hang on, was he sacked?

Saint Domingo · May 20, 2019

Think he’d struggle outside of Italy. Was poor at Milan and then took over the team that Conte had built. It’s arguably worse now than it was when Conte left him Pirlo Marchisio Vidal Pogba Dybala

polish · May 20, 2019

Saint Domingo said:
Think he’d struggle outside of Italy. Was poor at Milan and then took over the team that Conte had built. It’s arguably worse now than it was when Conte left him Pirlo Marchisio Vidal Pogba Dybala

How was he poor at Milan? He won them the first title in 7 years (and their last to this day). AFAIR he was heavily criticised during his last season there, but even then he steered them to the 3rd place, highest finish since he left them.

Saint Domingo · May 20, 2019

polish said:
How was he poor at Milan? He won them the first title in 7 years (and their last to this day). AFAIR he was heavily criticised during his last season there, but even then he steered them to the 3rd place, highest finish since he left them.

Fair enough I’m doing him a disservice there. My memory of that time was him coming under huge criticism for poor performance then commentators believing it a miracle he got offered the Juve job.

stipe · May 20, 2019

Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
Hang on, was he sacked?

I think he was, of course they trying to ease things up and all but yeah, i think he was sacked. They just played very boring football, even in Serie A against small clubs, don't think Ronaldo was happy with it

Simon Buttle · May 20, 2019

stipe said:
I think he was, of course they trying to ease things up and all but yeah, i think he was sacked. They just played very boring football, even in Serie A against small clubs, don't think Ronaldo was happy with it

Hence why Poch is being linked because Spurs are anything but boring.

MikeH72 · May 20, 2019

Replacing Solskjaer in around November time.

Seathestars · May 20, 2019

The grapevine mentions Klopp

Yank · May 21, 2019

bol-uk said:
I am sure I read that Pep wold consider it. Maybe if they won the CL though

Even without the CL I could see it. He left Bayern after a 3 great seasons in less of a league, but called it a failure and went to Man City.

I can see him doing a similar thing. I think, could be wrong, he'd be the first to win the league in what is considered the 4 major European leagues.

That would put him in a crazy place as a manager. And I like him, but he is super arrogant like most successful competitive people.

I don't want him to go though because I enjoy his teams and really don't enjoy Serie A at all.

Yank · May 21, 2019

BillBrasky said:
Similarly to PSG or Bayern, I don't think Juventus is that great of a job. If you don't win the league every year and make it to the CL Semis you're a failure. There is zero time to bed in, and set up your system.

Great points, I can't remember who but a Bayern player was disappointed because of fans reactions towards them after they won the league.

On the flip side though, that is the pressure success breeds.

stipe · May 21, 2019

Yank said:
Great points, I can't remember who but a Bayern player was disappointed because of fans reactions towards them after they won the league.

On the flip side though, that is the pressure success breeds.

Yeah but he got Bayern job immediately after Heynecks treble win, not to mention that Heynckes Bayern played crazy high tempo counter attacking football that ripped apart Barca in semis 7-0 in 2 games, then few months later Pep came and started changing that winning high tempo play style to possession Barca style game, same system that Heynckes Bayern destroyed only few months earlier. So it was crazy pressure on him there and lot of fans disliked that change. I personally also think Bayern chiefs made a mistake, that Heynckes Bayern was scary and played super football, if they kept him i think it would be them who would dominate and win few more Champions League titles in recent years instead of Real Madrid.