Juventus surprisingly appointed Andrea Pirlo as their manager in the summer of 2020, following Maurizio Sarri’s tenure. Despite winning the Serie A title under Sarri in the previous campaign, Juventus sought to maintain their winning momentum.
However, under the inexperienced Pirlo, they relinquished the league crown to Inter Milan, although he did guide them to victory in two domestic cup competitions.
Despite these cup successes, Juventus opted to part ways with Pirlo, replacing him with the returning Max Allegri in 2021.
Ironically, since Allegri’s return, Juventus has failed to secure any trophies. Pirlo, meanwhile, embarked on managing Sampdoria in the Italian second division.
Former Sampdoria player and pundit Angelo Palombo believes Juventus should have persisted with Pirlo at the helm.
He said, as quoted by Tuttojuve:
“I have always liked the work that Andrea Pirlo is doing even when things weren’t going well. Now he too has probably adapted to the category. Was Juve wrong not to keep him? I think so, he won two trophies. Then many think that he has no personality, but that’s not true.
“He has a personality that would be enough for 100 people, and also ironic even if it doesn’t seem like it. I really like him as a coach.”
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Pirlo had one good season on our bench, but his team could have performed better and his spell signalled the end of the good days for us as a club.
That’s true if the main objective was to get 4th spot. But we knew Allegri was re-hired by Agnelli to fight for scudetto. That’s why, he ditched Pirlo. But hey! I don’t really f care because Pirlo is just a mediocre coach who has no deep tactical system like De Zerbi has.
These three years wouldn’t have been worse even if they kept Pirlo.
Juve was wrong to bring back Allegri. Agnelli was a fool.
Pirlo is one of the greatest ever with a ball I his feet. But that did not translate to a coaching career. Let us all accept the fact that he was a magician as a player but a rubbish coach. Let’s make peace with that and move on.
Spot on Alex. Juve not only wasted 3 years with Allegri, but also forked out well over $50M over that time for Allegri and his useless staff.
Allegri is a liar as he stated when he first rejoined the club that Juventus must always compete to win the scudetto. Now that he has clearly failed, he is saying he was brought in to rejuvenate the squad, not to win the scudetto. What a load of hogwash
I can not say the three years would have been better with Pirlo, but he brought more to the team then Allegri has in his second spell. I feel management got greedy with not winning the scudetto like they did with Allegri and sacked Pirlo to early thinking Allegri would be the savior next season. Pirlo did pretty good in his 1st year and with being a former Juventus player he would have wanted to be better. We should have gave Pirlo more time to grow, but nobody asked me. Allegri has done ok, but I think it is time to move on.