Massimiliano Allegri stated, after the historic defeat against Maccabi Haifa, that “he never thought of resigning” because “a challenge, when it is difficult, is even more beautiful”. He wants to continue at the helm of Juve after a season without titles (the first in 10 years) and another disastrous start, the worst ever experienced by the club in the Champions League (three points in four games) and with the top of Serie A already to ten points. Andrea Agnelli has decided to please him. The CEO Arrivabene confessed with a laugh to a typhoon a month ago that replacing Allegri, who earns around nine million net until 2025, would be a problem above all economic, (“do you pay the other?”), but the president bianconero, in ‘Sky Sport’, tonight gave other reasons: “I feel ashamed and I am angry, but football is a team sport and a single person never loses. It’s a group issue, we have to do well until the break and think about the second part of the season”.
The maximum Juventino president, then, confirmed Allegri in the long term: “You have to ask for forgiveness and continue. There are no individual responsibilities, everything depends on the group. It’s hard for me to think of a change in the Juve bench in the middle of the season. We are going to have to recover our identity, but we have a group of great professionals. We must get out of this as Juventus knows how to do it”. After the disaster, it’s time for another complicated game, the derby at Torino’s stadium next Saturday. Allegri announced that the team will be concentrated until that day. An old measure, which sometimes works. We’ll see if that’s the case.
For those who no longer have excuses, it’s for some fed up youth tifosi. From bad to worse, words are no longer valid. For Lapo Elkann, neither. Gianni Agnelli’s grandson posted a somewhat cryptic tweet containing only ellipses. Speechless. Many demand a drastic change at the helm of Juventus. The covers in Italy have not spared anything about the situation. The place fan page explained that “the walls of the Juventus locker room shook” with Agnelli’s words to the players. The covers played with the president’s speech on Sky. “We have to be ashamed,” writes the Gazzeta. “I am ashamed”, underlined Corriere dello Sport, while Tuttosport went further and denounced that “shame is not enough”.
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Agnelli speaks of “shame” and Allegri punishes Juve players