With the talk over Thiago Motta’s Juventus future heating up in latest weeks, Antonio Cassano has chosen sides.
The Bianconeri have been enduring an underwhelming marketing campaign underneath the Italian Brazilian tactician who changed Max Allegri final summer season however up to now didn’t steer the membership again to the correct route.
However whereas the staff is lastly starting to muster a successful streak in Serie A, their cup woes pegged them again, nearly demolishing all hopes of clinching a title on the finish of the season. At a time when the membership’s supporters have been nonetheless making an attempt to swallow up final week’s Champions League elimination, Juventus have been calamitously thrown out of the Coppa Italia by the hands of the mighty Empoli.
A livid Motta didn’t mince his phrases after the competition, inviting his gamers to be ashamed by their show whereas calling them out for his or her poor angle on the pitch.
Nonetheless, Cassano factors the finger on the supervisor who occurs to be his former nationwide teammate. However as nicely know by now, the infamous striker is rarely afraid to talk his thoughts, a trait that left him with few pals within the area.
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The previous Actual Madrid, Inter and Roma striker believes Motta proved he isn’t the correct individual to guide the Juventus mission, so he believes the membership ought to sack him on the finish of the season no matter what he might obtain within the subsequent few months.
“I don’t assume Juventus ought to begin subsequent season with Thiago Motta,” whipped the retired striker throughout his look on By way of el Futbol (through IlBianconero).
“He might additionally win the Scudetto, however it doesn’t change something. You may’t erase all of the earlier disastrous months with elimination from the Champions League and the Coppa Italia. With the purchases made in the summertime, I anticipated a really totally different scenario.
“Many gamers have been devalued, there’s no thought of soccer, no enchancment. If he have been to win the league, I’d say that the others have been horrible for dropping it, so it wouldn’t be Juve’s advantage. A journey is required, one or two months should not sufficient.
“Cassano wonders why Motta retains Khepheren Thuram on the bench regardless of being one in all his most constant gamers.
“For instance, I don’t perceive why he questions gamers like Khephren Thuram, who usually doesn’t play and who, in my view, is the very best at Juve. I actually wrestle to grasp what Motta is doing. After his journey at Bologna, I anticipated a decidedly totally different affect.”