There has been so much talk about Juventus’ season being positive in the last few hours, just because the Bianconeri beat Napoli.
Before the game, the champions had dropped points against Benevento and Torino and calls for Andrea Pirlo to be sacked intensified.
The former midfielder reportedly went into the Napoli game with his future hanging in the balance.
His team eventually won the game, but not without nervy moments at the end of the encounter.
Now that he has seen off the Neapolitans to remain third on the Serie A table, it seems like he has earned the right to remain the manager at the Allianz Stadium for the foreseeable future.
It’s baffling to see anyone accept beating Napoli as a good sign, considering that Gennaro Gattuso’s side has struggled for much of this campaign.
When you add the fact that Juventus has won the last nine league titles, making a win over Napoli a big deal becomes insulting.
When we made Pirlo the manager, I had been hopeful that we would unearth our Pep Guardiola or Zinedine Zidane, but I have to admit now that Pirlo isn’t the answer.
His failure to cut his teeth in a youth team before taking up a top job has done him no good and I think we should end this experiment.
We’re only three points ahead of Napoli and a few defeats before this season ends will push us outside the top four.
Juve doesn’t have to wait for the worst to sack Pirlo, the signs are enough and they are already there to see.
exactly, and my fear is the desperation will leave him in the position; pirlo finds remind me when you see merda lifting the scudetto and excpect references to calciopoli
I agree with you 100%
Am still not convinced about Pirlo’s ability to be successful at Juve. I think Juve needs a top coach and too big to be used as experiment. I will love to see Zidane, Klop, Ancelotti or even Alegri. Pirlo needs to learn at a smaller team and not Juve. I hope the decision makers at Juve put on their right thinking hats.
How can you sack Pirlo? The man has given our youth players opportunities, and he inherited a shitty Juventus to begin with. Sack him and bring back Allegri? Ma please. I think a lot of Juventus fan’s are overeating, this has been coming for a couple years now. We have a shit midfield, majority of the players don’t play with hunger or intensity, but let’s blame coach. Paratici is our problem, not Pirlo. We need to get rid of a lot of players this summer, rebuild, and give Pirlo a chance. Switching coaches every year isn’t going to solve our problem, plain and simple. This team is our problem.
This is the most ignorant and sophomoric of all the “Pirlo Out” pieces I’ve read over the past months. And that’s saying something because at least 5 appear daily. Management has consistently made it clear that Pirlo is not getting the sack. He did the Agnellis a favor in taking the reins of a club that was already in transition, and with a truncated turn-around period before the season started. Add on the club’s financial precariousness, partially due to Covid-19 and partially due to some poor deals by Paratici, and you have a first-year manager who definitely knows that game and tactics, but is learning player and game management on-the-job. The impenetrable fortress that Juventus Stadium has been since its completion has been completely nullified this year due to the virus-mandated restrictions. We’ve had matches cancelled and rescheduled, and so on. But more than anything else, our fanbase is infantile and spoiled in many ways. So many of the Juventus “fans” believe that a scudetto and a deep run in the UCL are God-given rights. Where were you after Calciopoli???? I’m fairly sure the answer was “well, I was rooting for another club at that point, because….” Or is it that you’d never even heard of the club prior to Cristinao’s arrival?