Allegri has a real Challenge with Juventus This Season

Damn.

It's as if someone reached deep into Juventus' body and took away their soul and gave them a kick, forcing them to hang on by the edge with the sharks waiting below. So they are not totally destroyed yet, because they still have amazing players. But the core that has lead to their success in Italy and took them to the Champions League final has been totally taken away. It leaves Allegri with a serious task of defending their title and not allowing Juventus to slip away from the oncoming challenges of Roma, Lazio and possibly Inter Milan.

The biggest loss for Juventus has to be Carlito. This was their main top scorer and the man that scored so many important G's for them. Football is about a team and every player is important, but to lose your top scorer and main goal-getter will hit you hard. Especially when your alternative is the amazing, excellent and immortal....Llorente. Hence why Allegri had to get the mafia involved to quickly rush the signing of Mandzukic, but even he is not on the level of Tevez, and will not get the same amount of goal return that the Argentine did. That is just a cold hard fact and that is why Allegri will now have a serious job in hands in finding out how he can get those goals from the rest of his team.


Pirlo was always going to go, but now that he has officially gone, you can see the void that it has left. Despite his age and not being able to keep up, to lose that guidance and father-figure presence in the middle of the pitch, will hurt Juventus. And my goodness, to lose Vidal AS WELL, has pretty much taken out Juve's midfield with no one paying for dinner. All that is left is now Pogba who must now take the mantle and really be the MAN that everyone in the world thinks he can be. That is some serious pressure for a player who is still very young but who many believe will lead the next generation along with Neymar of being the best players in the world with Messi and Robben reaching that 30 mark.




Let's not digress, because the spotlight is now on Allegri and the nightmare season that he had with Milan will
be casting a shadow. After Ibra left, it all went downhill and Milan fell all the way down to regions in the Serie A that we all thought they would never have to see. I am not saying the same thing will happen again here because one key difference is Juventus were always a team, whereas Ibrahimovic is a damn behemoth of a player who can leave a team spineless once he leaves. Also, you have Dybala and Mandzukic who are no bricks and will ensure that at worst, Juventus are not fighting for relegation alongside Bologna and so forth. That does not mean it will be as easy as cheese banana pie. Roma have strengthened and Lazio as well as Inter will be smelling blood and even Milan with a new coach will feel like they have a very outside chance.


As a neutral football lover in the Serie A, yes I have a close affinity to AC Milan, but really, I want to see a competitive league. It will be laughable if Juventus run away with the scudetto again with so many missing pieces. I truly believe that this could be a three-horse race with a fourth team lingering about five or six points away. The three players that Juventus have lost are just so important to the way the team functioned that it will take a while before these new players get into Allegri's ethos and the team themselves learn to cope without the guidance of Pirlo in midfield or Vidal's tenacity and Tevez always coming up with the goods to score that key equalizer or winner. Allegri will need to try different formations, and perhaps try and get Mandzukic and Dybala working hard in training to try and produce a classic big and small striker partnership. But it's that midfield that worries me. I am hoping this means Pogba is at the heart of midfield, but replacing Vidal will be very hard and Andrea is a once in a lifetime kind of player since there has never been a footballer that plays like him.


Massimiliano Jeremiah Allegri...prepare yourself with what I HOPE will be a very tough Serie A campaign.



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