Stefano Discreti on the Allegri-Vaciago affair: “What a shame Mister!”

Stefano Discreti sulla vicenda Allegri-Vaciago: "Che peccato Mister!"

I thought about it a lot before writing and whether to write about it.
Yes, I personally witnessed part of the Allegri/Vaciago dispute live.
When I went out from the conference room into the corridor hearing altered voices, I never expected to find myself in front of the Juventus coach who was barely stopped by the stewards.
I won’t go into the merits of the matter but I wonder how it is possible to end a relationship that lasted almost 10 years with the Old Lady in such an unjustifiable way.

I have never loved Allegri, although I recognize his great value in managing the resources available. However, I have always tolerated his way of understanding football reluctantly.
I would never have taken him back on the bench, much less would I have ever offered him the crazy four-year contract that Agnelli invented almost senselessly.
For me, Allegri’s cycle on the Juventus bench had already ended in Cardiff.
Yet last night, at the stadium, towards the end of the match I stood up in the press gallery (one of the few) to applaud him when he tried to assert the Juventus reasons against the totally wrong refereeing decisions that everyone saw.
But what I saw next I just can’t accept.
For me Juve is and will always be a question of style.
And last night Allegri ended his story with Juventus in the worst possible way.
He could have emerged victorious, but this indelible stain will remain forever.
What a shame Mister

Groundhog Day, Oaktree and Zhang

Il giorno della marmotta, di Oaktree e di Zhang

Having concluded the championship run, for a few weeks theInter and its fans seem to have fallen into the script of Groundhog Day. In the successful and entertaining 1993 film, which gave birth to a real genre made up of missable remakes in various ways, meteorologist Bill Murray is forced to relive the same day over and over again. In the long run, he manages to break the film’s spell which at the beginning seemed like a great fortune, then becomes a sort of torment and finally turns out to be an opportunity to become a better version of himself.

If it will end like this also with the exhausting affair of the loan contracted in 2021 by Suning with Oaktree, 380 million euros including interest, to be repaid by 20 May. Given banking times, that means today. The script has been more or less the same for some time: first a new loan with Pimco seems to be around the corner, then some hitch occurs and even today it closes tomorrow. There isn’t much time left, so the final word will be written soon. The latest twist sees Oaktree himself putting up resistance. Suddenly, the theme becomes that everyone wants Inter.

The truth is that few people know the truth, and they have signed a confidentiality agreement which makes the leaks rarefied, as well as relatively reliable, certainly not the fault of those who try to collect them. The certainty is another: the loop will break shortly, and as strange as it may seem, the best guarantee of a club is not always the ownership, but rather the management. In the case of Inter, even in the event of a change of hands, it would be unthinkable to touch the management. And so all in all the fans can rest assured.

The openings of Italian and foreign newspapers today, Friday 17 May

Le aperture dei quotidiani italiani e stranieri di oggi, venerdì 17 maggio

Many topics covered in today’s front pages, among which the end of the relationship between Massimiliano Allegri and Juventus stands out. After winning the Italian Cup, after a fiery match. The club is considering immediate dismissal, with Montero ready to take over. Of course, farewell at the end of the season, with Thiago Motta as the first candidate for the Juventus bench.

There is also room for Inter, with a dangerous stalemate due to the clash between Oaktree and Pimco. There is also talk of Napoli, with De Laurentiis promising a prompt reconstruction. Abroad, Barcelona’s success over Almeria is worth mentioning. The Blaugrana are one step away from the mathematical certainty of second place behind Real Madrid.

Graziani: “Fiorentina, early for Aquilani. Italian takes a step back if he goes to Toro”

Graziani: "Fiorentina, presto per Aquilani. Italiano fa un passo indietro se va al Toro"

TMW Radio

Fiorentina and Torino, who would look good on the bench next year? It’s one of the questions asked Ciccio Grazianiformer footballer and coach, yesterday afternoon TMW Radioduring the broadcast Maracana: “In Florence they talk insistently about Aquilani, it seems premature to me because he has little experience and Florence is a difficult place. Otherwise they talk about Sarri. Even at Toro I’m not sure that Juric will leave. Italian in Turin? If he goes there today he goes to coach a less competitive team. Then if next year they make a more competitive team, why not, but the values ​​are different between Fiorentina and Turin.”

For Lazio we are talking about Dia:
“He’s a good player based on what we saw at Salernitana the first year. But it’s one thing to be a starter there, and another to do it in Rome. You can afford a gamble, but you need certainties.”

Would you bet on Castellanos?
“He makes a lot of mistakes but he puts in the determination, he would like to rock the world. If he plays more calmly and if he feels important to me he has room for improvement. I would give him ownership. You can also try. I think Immobile’s adventure is over anyway , has now become the alternative and has also become an environmental problem.”

Naples, De Laurentiis: “Our problems started last year. No Europe? We will breathe!”

Napoli, De Laurentiis: "I nostri problemi iniziati lo scorso anno. Niente Europa? Respireremo!"

(ANSA) – NAPLES, MAY 16 – The occasion is the presentation of the next summer training camp, but the attention of the Italian owner De Laurentiiis is entirely on the season at the end of the credits. “I knew that this year we wouldn’t be fighting for the championship again, it was normal.
But there was within me the desire not to trigger internal wars within the club, which are not very satisfying for everyone, and therefore I accepted to experience the great satisfaction of the scudetto and also to experience this year’s miserable year.” A failure which according to de Laurentiis “also serves to understand that from March of last championship, when we conceded 4 goals against Milan, the roots of this year were already there”.
We retrace the stages of an unlucky season: “In this season we can think what to say I was wrong to send coach Garcia away? Who knows, mistakes are admitted at work, only those who don’t work don’t make mistakes. I took on all of them the responsibilities even if they did not depend on me. Now I close a chapter and open another that we must write and we will do it with the same attention that allowed Napoli to be the only one to have a place in the cups in Europe for 14 years with continuation.

If we don’t go for a year it won’t be a trauma, we will breathe, oxygenate the brain and we will move forward with great passion.
Because if you work with passion you don’t lose, if you work because ‘s’adda campà’, you don’t go anywhere”. De Laurentiis underlined that in addition to the new coach and the new sporting director Manna “many other figures will also arrive in the Napoli club”.
“The choices made so far – he said – are the result of scouting, of the operators who have always been the same, if the choices made this year were not perfect, it happens. I put several tens of millions on the table, we bought a January new players, not just loans. I didn’t stop even when I realized that the season was compromised and I could stop.
I continue non-stop to also understand the opportunities and mistakes. I alone made the choice of Ngonge and I take all the responsibility for better or for worse, the other players were chosen by the club, which has a team of experts working on them.” (ANSA).

Salernitana, thrilling ultras: scenography created with children. Iervolino between sale and relaunch

Salernitana, ultras da brividi: scenografia realizzata con i bambini. Iervolino tra cessione e rilancio

Last in the standings, virtually relegated for three months, with repeated negative records, a team decimated by absences, four coaches who have taken turns on the bench and a future plan that is slow to start. Yet the Granata fans have never stopped putting on a show and supporting their favorite team, setting aside any protests against a club that has not kept many of the promises made on the day of the presentation press conference. For the match against Verona, despite a very inconvenient time for workers and traders and with several season ticket holders having abdicated some time ago, there should be around 15 thousand spectators. And, above all, a huge scenography in the Curva Sud that the ultras decided to create with the collaboration of many, very sweet children who will represent the fans of the future. “LITTLE ULTRAS GROW. YOU too come and create the choreography together with the ultras for Monday’s match against Verona. We are waiting for you on Saturday from 3.30pm to 8.00pm in the Pastena market square to paint another piece of Granata history and be the protagonist. Every little participant will receive a memory of this memorable day” the note issued on social media, while in the city dozens and dozens of people are working day and night to give a great show to fans from all over Italy, to make people understand. which for the people of Salerno will never be just a question of category.

Then there is the corporate aspect. In two months we will leave for the retreat in Rivisondoli, but Salernitana has not taken advantage of the much time available to plan the next season in advance. Iervolino received two concrete offers. Both by American funds, one of which is interested in starting a sort of collaboration that provides for the owner to remain as the majority shareholder, supported by the CEO Maurizio Milan and with a total reset of the technical and managerial plans. The feeling, however, is that in the end the owner decides to stay and postpone any discussion until next season, when a possible jump in category could allow us to think about decidedly higher figures. “Nothing is true, you will see that it remains and relaunches” the official version of the club, which clashes with that “we are evaluating, we will see” pronounced by Milan outside Arechi two weeks ago. The fans are divided, the vast majority have expressed disappointment through press releases aimed at calling for clarity, ambitious projects and respect. Then there is a segment of the public who still has faith in Iervolino and who hopes that the president can regain his lost enthusiasm by investing what is necessary to form a top-quality squad.

With which sporting director at the helm? Sabatini was rejected, Angelozzi could stay in Frosinone, it’s an uphill battle for Sogliano. There will be a casting between 5-6 elements, including the former playmaker Pasquale Foggia. As for the coach, the names of Fabio Grosso and Andrea Pirlo have long piqued the imagination of the owner, who is also willing to evaluate some Serie C profiles with which to start a multi-year project. Practically everyone from the current team will leave: Gyomber, Fiorillo, Iannoni, Mamadou Coulibaly, Legowski and Ikwuemesi may remain. Possible millionaire treasure if they manage to sell Kastanos, Maggiore, Bradaric, Pirola, Lassana Coulibaly, Tchaouna and Dia. Ochoa, Costil, Manolas, Boateng, Fazio, Pierozzi, Zanoli, Pellegrino, Gomis, Martegani, Basic and Weismann are off due to the end of their loan or contract expiry. To be placed Sepe, Bonazzoli, Sambia, Mikael and Simy, all linked to Salernitana by very onerous contracts. A penalty of 400 thousand will be paid to free Antonio Candreva sooner.

Maifredi on Allegri: “He didn’t satisfy me, but the championships won remain”

Maifredi su Allegri: "Non mi ha soddisfatto, ma resta quello dei campionati vinti"

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Mister Gigi Maifredi he returned to Atalanta-Juve in the Italian Cup TMW Radioduring Maracana and in particular he had his say, taking stock of this season, on Massimiliano Allegri: “You still have to give Allegri a little credit, certainly with the way he led Juve this year I’m not satisfied anyway. But having won so much he doesn’t deviate from what made him win the championships. Don’t you focus on young players? Often I still enjoy being a coach and I think that if he had at least sometimes thought about playing with four at the back and three in attack again, maybe he would have sent a message to people that he was trying to improve, but he didn’t. “.

How do you rate Nicolussi Caviglia?
“There will be a reason if someone as experienced as Allegri puts him in the final. He certainly has an excellent physical structure, he has tackles, he knows how to play vertically. He is someone to keep in mind for the future.”