“His” Udinese, the explicit invitation to Gianpaolo Pozzo of the same age, the Juventus crisis that would be rethinking to call his favorite pupil, Max Allegri, back into the fold. Giovanni Galeone goes freewheeling before the eve of the challenge all in black and white colors of Friuli and offers ideas that are never banal.
Galeone, Juve risks going from nine league titles in a row to exclusion from the Champions League.
«By assessing the state of condition of the teams, one between Juve and Milan risks. Atalanta and Napoli are traveling too fast. Lazio? It is true that he has a race to recover, but I see it too late and with a difficult calendar ».
On paper, even Juve’s is not easy. The lightest match on paper is precisely the one against Udinese.
«I don’t think Gotti’s team is unmotivated because it has reached its goal. And then when you play against Juve you always give your best ».
What idea did you have of the Friulian bianconeri?
«In this team I still see little quality. It is true that they lost Pussetto and Deuloefeu through injury, but if you take away De Paul and Pereyra there is too little of it ».
She likes the ten?
“Very. He can play in any top team in Italy and Europe. If I were Juve or Inter, I would go and get him and Musso right away ».
In which role does he best express himself?
«Where he plays now. In the future he could also play the center, but with the accelerations he has it would be a waste to give up his jerks ».
What match will it be tomorrow?
«I don’t believe in a Juve that runs into another bad figure, but the result is not a foregone conclusion. Of course, if Pirlo does not win in Udine the Champions area is at great risk ».
But what has happened in Turin in recent months?
«I said at the beginning of the season that Juve was not a well-built team. They went to get players like Chiesa and Kulusevski in roles where they were already covered. There is no left central defense and in fact Alex Sandro sometimes had to play there: an absurdity ».
And the midfield?
«Allegri has always told me that Bentancur cannot play central in a three-way median. Rabiot and Ramsey didn’t make it, but I can’t think they’re that bad. For them the same speech made for Eriksen at Inter is valid ».
How is this Juventus strengthened?
«With a left central defender: the ideal would be Alaba who, however, seems to me to go to Real Madrid; a midfielder that I believe will be Locatelli and a striker if Ronaldo goes away. There may be a return of Kean. Locatelli did not convince me when he was at Milan, he has grown a lot ».
Is Portuguese also so conditioning according to Galleon?
“It had been with both Allegri and Sarri who, however, managed to win the championship anyway, this time no”.
Allegri seems close to returning.
“He left for different views. Pay attention to it: the players he considered irreplaceable from Mandzukic to Matuidi, from Khedira to Emre Can have all been sold ».
At Juve we always start with only one goal: to win.
“But it won’t be so obvious. John Elkann’s order, at Juve as at Ferrari, is clear: it starts with young people. And in doing so you have to estimate that it will take a couple of years to get back up there ».
And how does Udinese strengthen itself taking into account that De Paul and Musso will almost certainly be sold?
«By focusing on quality. My peer Gianpaolo must return to impose himself and make a certain type of market. Udinese, both before and after me, had classy players. I think of Balbo, Branca, Dell’Anno, then Amoroso, Poggi, Di Natale, Barreto, Iaquinta, Muntari, Felipe, Quagliarella. And when Guidolin was there I remind you that Zielinski played little and Muriel was out because, according to him, he had a belly. There is no such thing as Sassuolo and Verona reaching Udinese ».
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