TURIN. After a senator like Leonardo Bonucci, also a great ex of Juventus such as Gianluigi Buffon, today in the goalposts of Parma, he emphasizes the anomaly that Cristiano Ronaldo was in the history of the Turin club and on how much his presence has influenced the last seasons. Positive, but also negative. According to the goalkeeper, in fact, the Portuguese champion, who arrived at Juve in 2018 and left last July, would have led them to lose their team DNA.
CR7, who returned to Manchester United for the second time, scored 101 goals in 135 Juventus appearances and won two league titles, but failed to go beyond the quarter-finals in the Champions League (the first year with Allegri) and came out in the round of 16 in the two successive seasons, with Sarri and Pirlo on the bench.
Today Buffon, in an interview with the Spanish-speaking American TV Tudn, said that seeing what was happening at Juve from Paris, where he had moved to play for PSG, he could not understand what was happening, then when he returned to Turin understood. “When I returned I worked with Ronaldo for two years – he said – and we did well together, but I think Juventus have lost that team DNA”. The bianconeri were returning from two daring eliminations suffered by Bayern Munich and Real Madrid and from two lost finals: «We reached the Champions League final in 2017 – Buffon recalls – because we were a team full of experience, but above all we were all united and ‘it was within the group a competition to play that was very strong. We lost it when Ronaldo arrived ».
The 2006 world champion goalkeeper still has no intention of surrendering to the passing years, on January 28th they will be 44. And, not satisfied with the return to his first team, Parma, he confesses: «I would like to play in Mexico or in the United States “.