Former Juventus man Andrea Barzagli has questioned why Leandro Paredes sits on the bench at the club in recent weeks.
The World Cup winner has been a flop in Turin and has now fallen out of favour under Max Allegri.
The Bianconeri gaffer has preferred to groom new talents instead of giving chances to the Argentinian midfielder, with Enzo Barrenechea now ahead of him on the pecking order.
It is shocking how bad this season has been for the PSG loanee who moved to Juve as one of the finest midfielders in the game.
The Bianconeri can make his move permanent for a fee, but that will certainly not happen and Barzagli wonders why he cannot play.
He says via Calciomercato:
“Injuries affect choices so much, Juventus had many. Young people in midfield? The explanation of keeping a player like Paredes out … Either he is not very well, or there are other choices behind the future of Argentina.”
Juve FC Says
In football, players are given chances based on their training performance and Paredes cannot expect special treatment.
The midfielder has been on the bench because others have been better than him and we expect him to work hard to reclaim his spot.
I’m not sure what berzagli’s problem is with young players in midfield. Parades is not playing because his attitude is poor and his form has been poor – end of story.
paredes never been good for us and he is a very limited midfielders. people just skipped so many video analysis about his performance from copa america including allegri.
allegri ideas is a regista that can shild the CB or becoming CB drop down, but paredes limited in his coverage, he is lazy, he wont run, he is bad at anticipating attacks and reads the balls, he has amazing skills but lack of visions, sometimes very careless, and when he failed his tackle he will not chase and man mark the opponent, this is why argentina coach changed his tactics, he use de Paul to covering paredes sht shows. u can see this on argentina lost to saudi.
paredes fineness is media hoax or popular opinions grew by delusional fans and channels,. he never been that good, especially for defense paredes is a liability.
looks how baranecea suddenly swapped with locatelli after he failed to shield those 2 sampdoria goals? he failed to drop down and cover inside the box, failed to read the games.
the same things happened with paredes.
only locatelli, fagioli, rovella, miretti and also rabbiot had this kind of awareness and thats why allegri really likes rabbiot because of that.
paredes has been an empty promises. he is not even an upgrade for rovella.
he never give the vibe that he is controlling the midfields like loca or rovella, they both always read the play well, also barenacea is far more advance then paredes.
paredes will just be walking and watching while his team mates surrounding, never gave them pass options especially if it a bit far from where he stands. lazy.
it’s hard for locatelli to even trust him, as he tried to shield him, u can see how loca seems more trust to fagioli and miretti even in tight space than to paredes, thats a big red flag for signing this 7.8M euro a year.
allegri seems more open minded this year and willingly to tried and gave up lazy bump like paredes.