My take on the current Juventus.
We are currently in a phase that most fans dread, the transition phase. The current Juventus team is changed beyond recognition. The only high performance players that were consistent last season was Bremer and Vlahovic that still remain in this team, one is injured and out for the season.
We have a new coach at the helm, so many new players and a schedule that literally no manager of Juventus has faced before thanks to the new UCL format. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that we’ll face bumps on our journey.
What we need to do is stay calm and remember the objective for this season, which is first and foremost to finish in the top 4 and qualify for UCL. That’s our only realistic target and people need to remember that.
We are changing everything about Juventus, from its identity to its tectonic shift towards “Youth”. The PR knows about this which is why we saw all that promotion of “Youth” on our social media.
To put it into perspective: Juventus currently is a team in transition and it’s trying to do a lot at once. We are changing everything there is to change about our team, our most experienced player currently is a 26 year old Teun Koopmeiners who until last season hadn’t played in any of the traditionally bigger clubs before.
We are an investment for the future. This season has only one non negotiable target that is to finish in the top 4. Everything else is just noise. And the season is long, nothing is set in stone yet. I feel the anger, the frustration that you all feel. That Benfica game was a tough watch, I bought a new Oled and that match was the closest I came to breaking it. But I didn’t.
So put down your pitchforks and wait it out until at-least the end of this season. That’s where the criticism will be justified. Of course if we are on track to drastically miss out on our objective for the season then the management will take action but so far, we are not on it, drastically that is.