Topic: ⚽ Lega Serie A 🇮🇹 (Italian League) Prediction Thread 2023/2024⚽ - page 26. (Read 17716 times)

I personally would do the opposite of what some teams do, I would sell all the "great" players at an advanced age to cultivate very strong spring teams.
A strong spring guarantees you a powerful generational turnover, and also allows you to monetize.
Football schools are very useful.

new speculation about transfer

when	who	from	to	price
Jul 26	Andrea Colpani Midfielder	Monza	Fiorentina	Loan
Jul 26	Filip Marchwinski Midfielder	Lech Poznan	Lecce	Undisclosed
Jul 24	Dailon Rocha Livramento Attacker	MVV Maastricht	Hellas Verona	600000
Jul 23	Che Adams Attacker	Southampton	Torino	Free
Jul 23	Thijs Dallinga Attacker	Toulouse	Bologna	15million
Jul 22	Mattia Viti Defender	OGC Nice	Empoli	Loan

Milan AC is strangely silent in this signing season, I'm not really understanding their strategy in this regard, it seems like they're keeping everything a secret.  I don't understand why but that's okay.  Of course I agree with you on Morata, we'll see what happens in the next few weeks.

For most people betting on friendly matches is something absolutely crazy but I couldn't resist when I saw the tempting odds.

Napoli win
Bologna win
Torino lose or draw

This is a short prediction from me because we can't see how much the chance of victory is like this but in my opinion the option I choose will provide a decent profit for me.
We can see the previous performance of Napoli and Bologna who always scored more than 2 goals in every friendly match and for Torino actually their performance is almost equal to Lyon and anyone can choose both clubs to score to get odds @1.47

Still I don't see another centre-forward speculation on Milan's agenda, interesting. I guess they are thinking of creating a duo with Morata and Jovic then? Morata had better not be the only forward ahead. He isn't good with that responsibility. 

Giroud's contribution to the team has been enormous until now. He was great last season too and now he has left. Milan needs to make their plans accordingly not to get less productive.

By the way it is sad to see De Ketelaere leaving Milan by not contributing properly. He is actually a talented midfielder but I guess he had problems on adapting to Milan. Because he was great at Atalanta last season which must be why they wanted to make the deal permanent. 

He really looks super young, he has the face of a little boy here.  Exactly if they want to chase away the old era they have to target young talents while also trying not to ruin them, it doesn't take much to ruin a young man permanently (if you remember Balotelli the teams ruined him, namely Inter)

In recent years, you may have noticed that Juventus' results have not been the best.  You may have noticed that in two years we have accomplished nothing or won anything.  If a team like this doesn't win and monetize, it practically dies and goes bankrupt.
We need a change of mentality to fix things: Thiago Motta.

Juventus has a bad habit lately to sell great defenders right ? We all remember how they had Dragusin ( now Spurs players ) on their academy and simply let him go to Genoa where he developed massively in just half a year and then they sold him to Spurs for quite amount of money + Bayern were also on the line to transfer him but he chose Spurs. So yea , let's hope they didn't make a huge mistake and the kid will be able to develop in Premier League and catch a big transfer next year for a top 4 team in Premier League.

Source: Transfermarkt

Dean Hujsen is shown like he is a "defensive prospect" for Juventus but set to sign for Bournemouth on the other hand. Even for only 18 million euros. How much do you know about him? I hope they aren't losing an important talent.

Juventus needs every single skilled player as of now. They are in a new era with Motta. If Hujsen is also skilled for real then they should loan him the most, not sell him permanently. There are so many centre-backs in their squad of course. Maybe the player also wants to leave because of thinking he wouldn't find much chance in the near future. Maybe after gaining some experience in the Premier League he would return to Italy stronger. 

He definitely looks promising. And it also feels like the problems that Juventus were facing are going to be behind them from the upcoming season. Hopefully they will be able to bring good results. I understand that a lot of people think Allegri has been able to win the league title with Juventus many times and that’s why he cannot be a bad coach.

Actually, we also have to understand that a coach is not going to be able to bring in the same results always. Same tactics or same coach with even different tactics might not work for very long period of time. Probably that’s what has happened with him. But that is in the past. Juventus will have to look at the future now. And the future does look very exciting. But a big challenge for Juventus is going to be keeping all the players healthy. Since they phase injury problems very frequently.

I need to clarify, I'm happy that we took Thiago Motta as coach, I find him promising.  Exactly as you say, however, there was an unprecedented attack from everyone towards Allegri who, in my opinion, did his duty well with what he had at his disposal.  Let's remember two seasons ago the miracles he worked with a team full of injured players.
I say, ok it would have been changed in any case, but I didn't like the way, Allegri didn't deserve it.

I agree with that. Allegri wasn't a bad coach for Juventus. How could a manager who lifted Serie A trophies 5 times with the same club be a bad one?  It doesn't make sense at all honestly.

He was in an unlucky time period this time. He dealt with serious injury problems and he didn't have good amount of money to sign new players to make the team stronger too. What could he do more in this situation?

Motta is lucky now. He has a good budget to make signings. He looks like a promising young coach at the same time. This makes me hopeful about him but we will see. Being prejudiced wouldn't be wise. 

Victor Osimhen is a young player, I don't see why he should go and play in the Saudi championship now, it doesn't make sense.
It's not a problem of money now, but a problem of career and titles, the boy rightly wants to win something before retiring for the last few years to make money in Saudiland.

It will not be easy for Saudi Arabian clubs to recruit Oshimen because I am sure this player does not want to play in the Middle East, he still wants to pursue his career in football as a European star player, especially since there are still many things that Oshimen has not achieved such as the individual Ballon d'Or title and also the Champions League title, he definitely wants to feel it if he continues his career in Saudi Arabia then his struggles so far will be in vain, he just needs to be patient in Napoli waiting for a top club that is willing to recruit him.

Oshimen's contract at Napoli still has 2 years left so if Oshimen is not sold this season there is still a chance next season for Napoli to sell him but of course the price will drop and that makes it easier for other clubs to buy him, be it Arsenal, PSG or Chelsea.

Thiago Motta is a potential young coach for any big club after achieving impressive results with a small club like Bologna. It takes time for Motta to work more, improve himself and show his ability at big clubs, start with Juventus. Some young coaches succeed in small clubs but later fail with big clubs like Andre Villa-Boas, Frank Lampard but Motta will not have to fear about anything. Trust himself, work hard, and move on with Juventus next season.

Allegri was treated unfair even he failed to win titles with Juventus in his second term there. It's quite normal in football like we can see nearly the same thing and bad treatment of the club on their coach in Barcelona. They got big problems, poor performances, crisis before they got Xavi as their head coach. He helped them to win La Liga but after all, they wanted more and stopped working with Xavi.

There is difference but the similarity is bad treatment of clubs on coaches who helped them to gain acceptable results and temporary ended crises in these clubs. Being too greedy and over requiring more, sometimes they will succeed with more success from new coaches but sometimes they will fail and gain worse results with new coaches. We will see how Barcelona and Juventus gain with Flick and Motta next season.

I would say that you are both right and wrong. I think he was worthy of getting sacked, Motta seems like a better manager so when you find a better manager, you end up sacking your current one and getting a new one. That is the part where you are wrong, he wasn't good enough to keep the job, he wasn't good enough, and him leaving is fine, I agree with that part.

However, what I agree with is the fact that he was "attacked" too much, from fans, from media, from social media, even from management. He didn't deserve that much neither, it has to be something in between, like "we thank Allegri for all he did, and we wish him the best in the future" type of parting ways. If they did that, then it would have been a lot better and we wouldn't really face any issues.

In the end, he is gone, and Motta is here, so they should learn from their mistakes and shouldn't treat Motta this way as well, keep him happy because he is your manager. Just constantly complaining and whining about the manager doesn't make anything better, a manager seeing all of those doesn't suddenly become better, just cheer him on, and tell him you expect great things and he will be hyped and happy, which will make him win more games.

Exactly good, well said.  Which obviously our dearest president De Laurentis hasn't understood or doesn't want to understand.
He would like to dictate the law not only with the coaches but also with the market, which is obviously absolutely not feasible.
He tries, failing and doing a lot of damage.

Even Saudi Arabia is said like an option for Osimhen lately. I would never want to see him going there at this age.    He is still very young for that. I know there are young and known European players preferring to go there instead. For example Saint-Maximin played for 1 year and now he is back in Europe. However he is on loan now.

I believe that Osimhen is a special striker. He deserves to play for a big European team. De Laurentiis shouldn't be stubborn. Otherwise he might even have to lose him for free in case he stays this summer.

Yes, I also think that Allegri didn't do too much harm, in fact I don't understand all the accusations rained down on him.  We had many misfortunes, punishments, injuries and in any case he kept the team going.  In my opinion he was treated too badly by everyone and he didn't deserve it.
Now I hope Thiago Motta makes fireworks!

I do hope the same because years are passing by and Osimhen needs to find another team to level up his game because if he stays at Napoli I doubt they will create a winning team around him or even fight for Serie A championship.

I also think the same about Lukaku and Conte because Conte is that type of coach who knows how to deal with such players and I'm sure Lukaku will re-find his glorious day of scoring important goals in important games because that is what matters the most for a striker.