Doomed to win. Until recently, for Juventus it was a “sweet sentence”.
Today the coach is the same. Marotta is gone. Juventus has not been the best team for some time. But as in the past it is equally doomed to win. To guarantee yourself at least a fourth place: the one that places you in Champion’s. So there are no alternatives: Juventus must win in Genoa with Sampdoria. He will have to do it in Turin in Champion’s against Villareal to continue the European race. Then he will have to win against the desperate Salernitana. And then he will have to show what he is made of in the match at Allianz against Inter. Then, maybe after having forfeited victories, you can reset the entire context and see the distance from the first ones. If they slow down, Juve could still have their say. Even playing badly. Because it is better to win than to play well and lose. Seen the PSG? Vision to meditate. Juventus, should Villareal overcome the obstacle, it will still have a very hard life. But football is a competitive mystery. And therefore, paradoxically – in my opinion – today Juventus is more likely (5% okay?) To win the Champion’s than to secure (in my opinion 1%) the Scudetto. The three in front, in fact, should more than slow down, commit suicide. Also because, having assumed that the Bologna – Inter recovery could be played on April 19, the Palazzo (let’s face it) would give a “help” to the Italian champions. Bologna, by that date could already be “saved”. And therefore not inclined to “stab”.
While the news reports a PSG patron furious at the outcome of the game lost against Real (which places the Qatar scrooge in the embarrassing situation of having to admit that petrodollars can buy many things, but not the Champion’s), Juventus has yet another appeal was filed with the TAR (of Lazio) to oppose Inter’s infamous “cardboard shield”. Best wishes.
Dybala affair. Whether or not he renews it doesn’t excite me. I would like to play. Play: finally.
Market: apparently they are on the slopes of Gravenberch. And this makes me happy since for a couple of years I have been “marking” him as a growing player. I hear about Raspadori. But above all from Rome, they tell me that Juve is active on a player. That would not be Zaniolo, but Milinkovic Savic. Plus the Serbian of Pogba. More him than that Jorghinho who seems to want to return to Italy. For Lotito’s half wing, the obstacle is economic. And not only. But a Juve that “politically” approached Lotito’s position (in the League) could induce the Lazio president to moderate his requests.
Other? The mayor of Florence Nardella explained that the new stadium in Florence “will be more beautiful than the Allianz”. Good for Viola fans. But projects always turn out beautiful: on paper. Then there is the reality. Like for example that of the stadium that Inter and Milan would like to build, in the San Siro area, making the Meazza a faded simulacrum of ancient grandeur. Between a project and its realization there is … the sea. The ocean – in this case – of protests, appeals, requests for a public referendum, vetoes from neighborhood committees. Milan is already late. He already knows that the 2026 Olympics will be inaugurated at the old Meazza, not in the future double-use “cathedral” (once Inter, the next Milan) “sold” as “the most beautiful stadium in the world”. Which now risks being done in Sesto San Giovanni. Or even not to be really high. Because the stadium is a necessity. But the “more” construction is a (apparently) indispensable business. A business that does not convince ordinary citizens and some political forces. Even among those that make up the Sala junta.
