The former president of Juventus Giovanni Cobolli Gigli spoke to the microphones of Radio Bianconera by Andrea Agnelli, not sparing a few jabs: “Agnelli has committed delusions of grandeur and Juve has found itself with 900 million in liabilities accumulated over the years. Now the club, after the second Allegri experience, is trying to turn the page. Juve is a company with its own management, but the person who talks a lot about the club is the majority shareholder Exor, and I find it a somewhat out of place type of communication, it is an excellent president like Ferrero and a coach like Giuntoli who seems to me to be is doing important things, added to these is a coach who has done great things first as a player and then as a coach.
I believe that Andrea Agnelli was ill-advised in the moments preceding the Super League, when he decided to take Ronaldo and leave Marotta. I have it very clear in my mind that CR7 is an exceptional player, but he failed to bring what was expected, in fact he dismembered the team a little because he was a great actor separated from the other players. Since Marotta’s exit, Andrea Agnelli has had collaborators not capable of carrying out an important responsibility like that of Juventus. At that point a situation of tension was created which led to a screw-up and therefore over time to the heavy liability situation mentioned earlier.
The idea of the Super League is the result of economic needs, my opinion is that Agnelli’s mistake was to present the Super League at eleven in the evening without having prepared the ground under him, creating reactions at a European level also due to how that mechanism was designed. An elite mechanism with only large teams, not taking into account the fact that football must also allow small teams to compete, if well managed. It was seen as ‘we are the gods, we want to live in our Olympus, you make do’, and this is wrong.”