TURIN. Sampdoria is a fundamental step in Juric’s table, which looks to the present – and the urgency now is to score points – but also to the longer-term project. The challenge to the Sampdoria is a real maturity exam «against a team that in the last two years has been clearly superior to us», but which now must be fought to go to the box office. And give more strength to a project that has a very specific final goal. «I married the Bull for three years because I want to reach the maximum – the position of the coach -, it will be a long and tortuous path, but compared to the past we have already made many steps forward, and from all points of view. The team has improved, has turned but be careful: you can also go back if you think you have arrived. Sampdoria are strong and trained well by D’Aversa. It will be a very tough match and very important for us, we have to play a great match ».
Taurus is in a time of profound evolution. A transformation that against Milan, despite the defeat, became more marked for Juric. Now the leader in the field would also be needed to drag the team towards complete maturity. «We are in a process of generational change – says the technician -, the hierarchies are overturned compared to the past, but new leaders must still be born, I see mine still too silent, the road is long. Mandrake, however, may have the right characteristics. Belotti? I want to protect him, he has to work calmly, find his shape: he will arrive. He could have scored two goals at San Siro, but it’s too early to talk about hierarchy with Sanabria ».
For Juric, the Bull must be definitively unlocked also to involve President Cairo more. And the discussion naturally ends on the market: in January it starts again. “Everyone has raised the bar – Juric’s premise – including the company that did what we asked for. Now I like the medical staff and the Philadelphia is more liveable even if it’s not the best, but we adapt and work to make it as beautiful as possible. Now it’s up to me to be more credible to my president, I hope he will listen to me more in the negotiations. Last summer it didn’t happen, but then it’s the coaches who pay with the exemption. My mistake was to have accepted wrong situations, I was not convincing ».
To return to victory, Juric thinks of some changes to the starting lineup, with Sanabria ahead of Belotti and Praet again from the first minute after the injury: he would take over from Linetty. «I had already thought about playing against Milan – he says – but on the eve he sprained his ankle and started off the bench: they were very good at putting him back on his feet immediately. And I have not yet decided before ». The third ballot is in defense between Buongiorno and Rodriguez: in the last two games the former football player of the grenade youth sector has always won.
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