Give the kids a chance…
18 January 2022
We seem rather strapped for cash. I don’t know the exact figures and doubt anybody knows them. It is never good business sense to reveal you are poor. Yet our financial matters seem harrowing, in whatever reality can be grasped and taken as something near to our reality. The squad is overpaid and bulging with […]
Juve mutterings (back from the brink)
17 December 2021
I have been out of sorts of late, due to an unexpected, certainly unwelcome, yet ultimately unavoidable motorcycle accident involving a three vehicle pile up in my intended direction of travel. Which has led to…a rather testing time all round. Throughout which however, supine demanded on a hospital bed, I kept track of Juve. Even […]
Open thread…Juve mutterings.
13 November 2021
First on the agenda must be Dejan Kulusevski. Who is rumoured to be on his way out, with none other than our old friend Paratici apparently eager to try pluck him from Turin and offer him a chance to shine in London. Arsenal also are in the mix, so say the usual suspects. This talk […]
Juventus 1-0 Roma
19 October 2021
This game provided us many a question mark going into it. From team selection, to formation, and so on. As things solidified, the dust cleared, and we took to the pitch. It could’ve been anyone’s match. Mad Max once again showed his tactical prowess. Showing that the sum of your parts can be far more […]
The Paratici Legacy
14 October 2021
We sit in 7th after a haphazard start to the campaign which many of us felt so positive towards before the first game of the season. For Paratici had gone! Pirlo had gone! And yet then Ronaldo left in the final flurry, which most of us tried to look past, clung onto the hope that […]
Torino 0-1 Juventus match report
4 October 2021
Today Massimiliano Allegri set the team up in 3-5-2 with the ball and as usual, 4-4-2 without. We started quite well and immediately had two golden opportunities. Unfortunately, in the 3rd minute, out of a counter when Matthijs de Ligt won the ball in the middle of the park, Moise Kean decided not to cross […]
Spezia 2-3 Juventus – a classic relegation 6 pointer!
22 September 2021
Despite the dire state of our league position, both before and after, I was encouraged by the performance against AC. For whilst they were missing a few players, they are a team in superb form, with their away record certain confirmation of a settled system and deep imbued hardiness. For 45 minutes we actually looked […]
The return of the prodigal son…
7 September 2021
Whilst the mercato window closed shut with no last minute addition to the troublesome midfield area, or any serious challenge to the long jaded Sandro, this summer we did make one major signing other than the protracted Locatelli deal. As a former juventino was returned to the fold… Moise Kean was by far the most […]
Udinese 2-2 Juventus – Haphazard season opener
23 August 2021
What could have served as a solid, if unspectacular start to the new campaign, was transformed into disappointment as Polish keeper Szcesney threw away victory almost singlehandedly. And yet even with the promising signs in the first half, the game was overshadowed before kick off as rumours abounded that Ronaldo was benched which turned out […]
Return of the King and the reluctant number 2
23 July 2021
It came as only vague surprise to find the latest former player to visit Continassa linked with a job at the club. And now it appears employed by the club. With Simone Padoin rejoining the ranks as part of Max’s coaching staff. Whilst there is some sentimental value attached, given the player spent 4 years […]