Italy’s national team manager, Luciano Spalletti, has left out Manuel Locatelli from his provisional squad for Euro 2024.
The Azzurri are looking to defend the crown they won in 2020, now under a new manager following Spalletti’s replacement of Roberto Mancini.
Italy boasts some of the finest players in every position in Europe, and their fans are eager for them to bring home the title once again.
Naming the squad for the competition is the first challenging step, and Spalletti has created a provisional list of players he intends to take to Germany.
According to Calciomercato, Spalletti’s most notable omission is Manuel Locatelli. However, he included Locatelli’s Juventus teammate Nicolo Fagioli, who has just returned from a long-term ban.
Andrea Cambiaso and Federico Chiesa are the other two Juventus players who have made the preliminary squad for the competition.
Juve FC Says
Locatelli’s absence from the squad is a major surprise; however, the midfielder has not been doing well at the club.
Since moving to Juve, Locatelli cannot say he has improved as a player, and it would be unfair to pick him instead of players who have been playing well regularly.
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Honestly blame allegri for this. He completely stunted locatellis progression as a box to box midfielder. He crafted him into a defensive midfielder cleaning up in front of the center backs. You can notice this as his slide tackling has improved greatly since he moved to Juve but his offensive side has regressed. He was far more attacking when he first joined and used to try to spray the ball around the field. That stopped under allegri. Thank god he is gone and hopefully locatelli can begin to improve that aspect of his game
blame it on allegri chosen to buy bremer and persistent playing tek.
locatelli have to help bremer, shield bremer and masking his weakness.
tek is very weak, beaten from counter, beaten on 1 vs 1 like calafiori 2nd goals, beaten from near post consistently, and beaten from cross.
there is no way to play loca higher on the pitch as box to box because he busy covering 2 useless players behind him.
what bremer and tek archived so far are praises from FANS while their performance and real eyes test shown they are mediocre at best.
as long as we play bremer and tek in 3 men defense, locatelli will never shine and he will look bad because he is evaluated as midfielders not defenders.
if people read his stats as defender, locatelli doing great job
I just don`t get this omission. Look at the other players, Cristante, Fagioli, Folarunsho, Ricci – get the fuck out of here. Even if Locatelli has had another shit season and I blame Allegri for this, Italy need Locatelli at the Euros. Our midfield is weak and Locatelli can only strengthen it. Fagioli? the kid have not played football for a year. This is just crap Spalletti, 26 players and you leave out the 2. to 3. best midfielder. I fear for Italy`s chances now.
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