Juventus appears to be edging closer to the decision of parting ways with Thiago Motta as their once-promising season nears its conclusion without securing any trophies. This would be a significant blow for the club, especially considering the high expectations surrounding their campaign at the start of the season.
Motta, who was appointed as the club’s manager at the beginning of the season, was provided with more support than many of the new managers who began their roles this term, which suggested that the club had great faith in his ability to deliver results. However, despite the backing and the resources at his disposal, Motta has struggled to bring out the best in the players currently under his management.
It cannot be said that Motta has lacked the necessary tools to succeed, as he has had the players he needs to make a substantial impact. Yet, the team has underperformed in comparison to the expectations set for them. A few players have shown flashes of brilliance, but overall, Juventus has not been as strong as anticipated.
This underachievement has inevitably affected the team’s overall success and placed increased pressure on Motta to turn things around. While Motta is considered one of the brightest coaching talents in football, his lack of a proven track record in securing major trophies could work against him when the club assesses his future at the end of the season.
However, it would seem premature for the club to part ways with Motta after just one season. Given the circumstances, it might be in the best interests of both the club and the manager for Juventus to offer him another season to prove himself. Although some mistakes have been made during this campaign, it is important to recognise that Motta is a promising manager, and it is likely that he will learn from these missteps.
Motta should be allowed the opportunity to address the issues before the start of next season. If the situation does not improve by the second half of the next campaign, the club may then consider making a change. However, it remains too early to make any drastic decisions about Motta’s future with the team at this stage.
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Only Martin could write such things. He had plenty of time to learn from his mistakes….wait a minute does he learn from it? Is he want to learn?
I don’t get waiting til next mid season to fire him if things don’t go well. The question is: is it the tactics or the man? I think he’s completely lost the dressing room. The rotating captaincy. Danilo so quickly being usher out the door during a period where we only had two cbs. The many reports of flawless training sessions and the squad’s disappointment of that not translating to the pitch. It’s not like he’s arteta and tutored under arguable the best tactician ever. He’s a mid table manager – that’s his proven track record. He’s replicating those results here – a slight improvement, but with massively more gifted players. Regardless of what you thought of Allegri (I despise him) he’s a good man manager – he sets the tone for the club and gets the players to buy in. We wouldn’t not have seen them give up against Atalanta like they did. The second half of the Napoli game. It seems this team started down hill sometime after the 4-4 inter draw. All the fight went out of the team. So many players just went completely off form. They only way to keep him and possibly proceed would to completely gut this team and start over and then there would be a proving period again. Tactically I think they are quite clueless also funny enough. There really isn’t a discernible pattern of play for this team. I do understand trying to tailor you play to the upcoming opponent but at the end of the day you have to put your players in the best positions to exploit what they do best. You wouldn’t put Messi to track back and cover for a wing back – they tailored it so that he could walk as much as he wanted and Julian Alvarez did all the running, covering and pressing from the front when Argentina won the cup. They allowed Messi to be good what he’s good at. Get the ball and dribble at people. Not should our players be given that wide a birth. No. But they should have some of that essence that they can succeed at what they are good at because that produces results. I think Koop is the perfect example of this not happening. He’s being asked to do what he’s mediocre at and we are surprised that he’s playing mediocre. I just don’t see this top manager that is being spoke of in Motta. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong some day.
No, Juventus shouldn’t give Motta another season.
He did nothing.
In more detail:
– the “drastic decision” would be to fire Motta after the Fior match. Keeping Motta until the end of the season is also a big risk, as Juventus needs 4th place.
– As for next year, I see no reason to keep Motta.
What Martin wrote, “Motta will definitely learn from his mistakes,” is exactly what I miss this season. In addition to the team’s lack of defense, lack of offensive play, Motta’s inability to build a fighting team, he can’t even learn from his mistakes, or doesn’t want to, and can’t change.
I think he’s overthinking every match. Every game it’s different tactical setup. I think the players are frustrated that they are always being asked to do things differently every game. Had to find a rhythm that way.
Yes another season to sell meanwhile every players who is worth…He destroy our italian core we build last years, sell Kean, Chiesa and Fagioli, Cambiaso during winter was near to leave also and finally today I read that if he stay for next season, Gatti will not be part of the team…Disgusting
“Learn from his mistakes”! So why he started Atalanta game with Weah and Kelly in defence when he had Kalulu and Costa? Yildiz was ill and played on wrong side! There were change to play with DV9 and RKM on right so they could challenced the defence even somehow. Gasperini beat Motta 100-0 in tactics. Atalanta hasnt do nothing more than waiting for Juve players errors. Motta seems to be stubborn and not showing growth. It scares like hell.
Motta tactics are not suitable for this squad. util 4-2-3-1 won’t change.. do not expect from juve any good playing game!!! so bad managing team. he should go immediately
Agree. Changing formation is the only thing what would give me some little hope and convince me to give Motta second chance. As soon as I see 4-2-3-1 line up I could only say to myself “here we go again, only lady luck can save us. Buck it up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.”
I don’t remember when we won convincingly and dominated the match.
What to speak who plays where in his line up.