Legendary Inter defender Giuseppe Bergomi tries to offer Juventus Soccer Director Cristiano Giuntoli a wake-up name.
The previous Napoli sporting director arrived in Turin in the summertime of 2023 with a lot fanfare following his nice exploits in Southern Italy.
The 52-year-old oversaw his first summer season switch marketing campaign on the membership in 2024, and plenty of deemed it an excellent success on the time. The Bianconeri have been capable of signal highly-esteemed gamers, like Teun Koopmeiners, Douglas Luiz and Nicolas Gonzalez.
However for one motive or one other, the marketing campaign slowly disintegrated, with all the aforementioned gamers enduring a tough time below the steerage of Thiago Motta.
So whereas a bit of followers and pundits is pointing the finger in direction of Giuntoli for failing to make the proper recruitments, others imagine the drawback lies within the supervisor who hasn’t been capable of conjure the most effective model out of the brand new signings, in addition to the outdated gamers
Both approach, Bergomi hasn’t been impressed with a number of the statements made by the previous Carpi director, as they illustrate a mentality that isn’t worthy of an excellent membership like Juventus.
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The 1982 World Cup winner highlights how Giuntoli ducked all talks associated to the Scudetto, one thing you’re not allowed to do when representing the Outdated Woman of Italian soccer.
“Greater than the tactical facet, I ponder the place Juve is from an identification perspective,” mentioned the Inter icon throughout his look on Sky Sport Italia following the Bianconeri’s heavy defeat in Florence (by way of JuventusNews24).
“In the mean time, this facet just isn’t there. Giuntoli mentioned ‘Eh however, you have been those who talked concerning the scudetto’. Properly, you’re at Juventus, after all they may throw the Scudetto speak in your face. The membership lacks persona.”
The Bianconeri thought they’d revived their title hopes with a sequence of 5 wins on the trot, however have now sunken to fifth place within the desk after back-to-back beatdowns by the hands of Atalanta and Fiorentina.