Comments on: Player Ratings: Juventus Season 2007-2008

By: alessio

alessio — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:26:15 +0000

or maybe sally can get juve to leave molinaro in australia. seduce him, outdrink him, drop him in the outback, anything that makes him miss the flight.

By: Sofia

Sofia — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:47:22 +0000

we should have “forgot” molinaro in china…

By: adam

adam — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:29:31 +0000

you have a good point there Edgar, with the same players we can beat roma, milan, and inter, but we can also draw to empoli. our biggest flaw this season was our consistency. we would go WWWDLDDW, i think that if we get the players that we need we could realisticly get far in europe and win th scudetto. First part of the solution, ship molinaro off to a far, far, far away land

By: Edgar

Edgar — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:52:50 +0000

I know our objective was to only get a European spot, however after seeing out team in action everyone could see we were a title challenger all the way until the last few weeks. To have your manager say that 3rd place was good enough is disastrous he should have never said that because that shows his lack of ambition, the same reason why he was fired at Chelsea to begin with. Ranieri made many mistakes and yes Molinaro was one of them, but he also did not play Tiago when he was getting into form instead playing Nocerino, also not giving Palladino a chance to play supporting striker (he could have played in any coppa italia games) his stubbornness about always playing a 4-4-2 formation. He did a good Job for the management and after he met their objectives I say give him another season, but I still think he is not the right coach for us, we are Juventus the best in Italy, not Parma.

By: Sofia

Sofia — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:03:22 +0000

edgar, adam is right. its not completely ranieri’s fault, he trains the guys as best he can but its up to them to play like a team, as cliche as that sounds its true.

i still think that we should bring zambro back as he seems quite keen on coming home

By: adam

adam — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:43:09 +0000

edgar, at the beginning of the season the team objective was to qualify for the UEFA CUP. So third place is a pretty good achievemnet. Looking at the players he had at his disposal, Ranieri did a pretty good job. His biggest flaw however was his pleasure of playing Molinaro on the left instead of Grygera. Molinaro has no business being anywhere near a football pitch.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:06:48 +0000

Secco a two, you’re too nice. Btw Ranieri will not give us a championship because he is not the kind of coach that can lead big teams like Juventus(someone not good enough for chel$ky is not good enough for us). He is really stubborness will only give us 3rd place, he keeps playing 4-4-2 when we are a 4-3-1-2 kind of team, Ranieri sucks and he feels that 3rd place is an accomplishment for Juve when we beat Inter, Roma and Milan. Juve’s coach should have the winning mentality to say that anything below 1st place is a failure especially when we only fought one front.

By: alessio

alessio — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:57:44 +0000

Yeah. Rumor is Nocerino+1/2 of Lanzafame+12million euros for Amauri. Not a terrible deal, as far as those go.

And in China, Molinaro gifted the other team a goal, right in front of the net. I’ll try and find a video. We cannot get rid of him too soon.

By: R.J.

R.J. — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:05:54 +0000

nocerino got moved to palermo? best news i’ve heard all day, but it’s early.

By: Il Divin Codino

Il Divin Codino — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:01:40 +0000

Great post alessio
I agree on everything except for ADP
Il Pinturicchio gets a 10 of course