Juventus director general Giuseppe Marotta has praised Coach Max Allegri, and outlines the club’s goals for the season.
Allegri replaced Antonio Conte on the Bianconeri bench this summer, and has since guided the Old Lady to the Champions League Last 16 and has established a five point lead at the top of Serie A.
“It was very hard,” Marotta recalled of Conte’s departure in an interview with Sky.
Juventus director general Giuseppe Marotta has praised Coach Max Allegri, and outlines the club’s goals for the season.
Allegri replaced Antonio Conte on the Bianconeri bench this summer, and has since guided the Old Lady to the Champions League Last 16 and has established a five point lead at the top of Serie A.
“It was very hard,” Marotta recalled of Conte’s departure in an interview with Sky.
“We ended up with this mutual termination with Conte on July 15 when the season had practically started, so obviously there were enormous difficulties, especially if we remember the legacy of three Scudetti, meaning he wasn’t easy to replace.
“However, today Allegri has partially succeeded in the club’s aims, we’re the winter champions, in the next round of the Champions League and we hope and wish to be part of the final reckoning in May.
“He’s a man with great professionalism, and a calmness which has allowed him to overcome great difficulties, he’s a winning Coach like Conte.
“Allegri has led with tranquility this season, supported by the club and supported by a group of players who are winners both on and off the field.
“We’re winter champions but that’s a largely meaningless title. The important thing is to be top at the end of the season and get onto the winner’s podium in May.
“So, we take the title of winter champions, aware that we’ve shown in the first half of the season that we have a tight-knit squad and a very good Coach.”