Juve on a comeback trail

This is the latest news on Juve's efforts to be competitive again when the re-join the Serie A this year

Reports in Italy are suggesting that Juventus are close to signing Barcelona ace Javier Saviola, who could join the outfit in June.

Forza Juve

Juventus will have a squad that will get them back in the top 4/5 straight away!

I just hope you arent one of the clubs who are coming after Quagliarella!

Hey, no worries dude, Quagliarella is being earmarked for Inter's primavera side

On a serious note, Juve have already secured Grygera, Salhamidzic, and now Saviola. They will be challenging for the scudetto next season.

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:Juventus will have a squad that will get them back in the top 4/5 straight away!

I just hope you arent one of the clubs who are coming after Quagliarella!

There are even hints that they are looking for C Ronaldo from Man Utd. But then I doubt if Ronaldo will leave Man U. But he is in awesome form right now & would make a good addition to the Juve team.

Juve and Milan will be strong next year with no Champions League football to distract them.

Obispo wrote:Juve and Milan will be strong next year with no Champions League football to distract them.

haha

Samp for 4th place

I doubt that...Milan will get their act together & should be able to secure a place in the top 4

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:

Obispo wrote:Juve and Milan will be strong next year with no Champions League football to distract them.

haha

Samp for 4th place

Best get that Lazio avatar ready Deano. Terlizzi'll be jumping ship soon anyways, if Milan get their way *grumble*

Surely Grygera, Salahimadzic and Saviola aren't going to make Juve champions.

after the exodus of some top names from the squad, they sure need some good signings if they want to compete at the very high level...& i believe this is a good start.

toon h wrote:Surely Grygera, Salahimadzic and Saviola aren't going to make Juve champions.

Well I agree that they might not be champions straight away...but then it's a good start back into top flight football

@Obi......I'd be surprised if we let Terlizzi go just yet..our Defence was a problem...

ZENONI---SALA---TERLIZZI---ACCARDI

Is a half decent defence...and Im sure we wanna keep it that way

go and find another club to jack up

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:@Obi......I'd be surprised if we let Terlizzi go just yet..our Defence was a problem...

He'll be off when a bigger and better club is in for him...


look at Oddo

Obispo wrote:

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:@Obi......I'd be surprised if we let Terlizzi go just yet..our Defence was a problem...

He'll be off when a bigger and better club is in for him...


look at Oddo

so what does Lazio have to do with his possible transfer?

bluenine wrote:Hey, no worries dude, Quagliarella is being earmarked for Inter's primavera side

On a serious note, Juve have already secured Grygera, Salhamidzic, and now Saviola. They will be challenging for the scudetto next season.

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:Juventus will have a squad that will get them back in the top 4/5 straight away!

I just hope you arent one of the clubs who are coming after Quagliarella!

And now emerson is being linked with a comeback to Juve. Nobody appreciates deserters but then I guess we are desperate

TarunDang wrote:

bluenine wrote:Hey, no worries dude, Quagliarella is being earmarked for Inter's primavera side

On a serious note, Juve have already secured Grygera, Salhamidzic, and now Saviola. They will be challenging for the scudetto next season.

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:Juventus will have a squad that will get them back in the top 4/5 straight away!

I just hope you arent one of the clubs who are coming after Quagliarella!

And now emerson is being linked with a comeback to Juve. Nobody appreciates deserters but then I guess we are desperate

Please take him.

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:Juventus will have a squad that will get them back in the top 4/5 straight away!

I just hope you arent one of the clubs who are coming after Quagliarella!

not sure if they will be nearly as successful without the ref's help.

then of course nedved will be gone, del pierro not far off being past it, so they pretty much need half a team of new players same as milan.

toon h wrote:Surely Grygera, Salahimadzic and Saviola aren't going to make Juve champions.

If you look at the current Juve squad, its already as good as the top 4-5 side in Serie A (I have highlighted some of the more talented names):

1 GK Gianluigi Buffon
2 DF Alessandro Birindelli
3 DF Giorgio Chiellini
4 DF Robert Kovač
5 DF Igor Tudor
6 MF Cristiano Zanetti
8 MF Giuliano Giannichedda
9 FW Valeri Bojinov
10 FW Alessandro Del Piero (captain)
11 MF Pavel Nedvěd
12 GK Antonio Mirante
13 DF Felice Piccolo
14 DF Federico Balzaretti
15 MF Claudio Marchisio
16 MF Mauro Camoranesi
17 FW David Trézéguet
18 DF Jean-Alain Boumsong
19 MF Matteo Paro
20 FW Raffaele Palladino
22 GK Emanuele Belardi (on loan from Reggina)
23 FW Tomás Guzmán
25 FW Marcelo Zalayeta
27 DF Jonathan Zebina
29 MF Paolo De Ceglie
30 DF Nicola Legrottaglie
32 MF Marco Marchionni
33 DF Orlando Urbano

Then look at the kind of players they have out on loan - the best of whom they can call back next season:
MF Manuele Blasi (at Fiorentina)
MF Andrea Gasbarroni (at Parma)
MF Olivier Kapo (at Levante)
MF Alessio Tacchinardi (at Villarreal)
MF Ruben Olivera (at Sampdoria)
FW Fabrizio Miccoli (at Benfica)
FW Giuseppe Sculli (at Genoa)
FW Rey Volpato (at Arezzo)

Then add to that the likes of Grygera, Salhamidzic, and perhaps Saviola/C Ronaldo/Emerson/etc. And no CL distraction next season.

Yeah, I think they will be challengers for the scudetto next season.

hey, thanks for the vote of confidence bluenine.
And yes you have put it right...I believe that they have a good squad in the making to be title challengers next season.

DD seems to be doing a good job as well of steering the team back in

Talented squad for sure, but nedved should be finished, and how much have the likes of del pierro got left. We are not just talking about a player, but the 2 of the main players of the team, without considering they lost cannavaro and zambrotta already. You also highlighted Cristiano Zanetti who is good but nothing special, so I am assuming that since he is one of the more talented the others cannot be all that special.

Of course this team is going to be near the top, and does not seem to be in as bad a condition as I thought, but without the ref giving them penalties in injury time, which was key to them winning quite a few matches. I actually see the ref's being harder on them in order to not seem to be being nice to them, so cannot see them getting many penalties at all.

C Zanetti may not be special, but IMO he is >>> Carrick and Hargreaves as a holding midfielder - thats why I have him highlighted... He refused to play second fiddle to Cambiasso at Inter, something Vieira/Dacourt accepted.

Some of the not-highlighted ones can make teh starting XI of a top Serie A or EPL side.

110% wrote:Talented squad for sure, but nedved should be finished, and how much have the likes of del pierro got left. We are not just talking about a player, but the 2 of the main players of the team, without considering they lost cannavaro and zambrotta already. You also highlighted Cristiano Zanetti who is good but nothing special, so I am assuming that since he is one of the more talented the others cannot be all that special.

Of course this team is going to be near the top, and does not seem to be in as bad a condition as I thought, but without the ref giving them penalties in injury time, which was key to them winning quite a few matches. I actually see the ref's being harder on them in order to not seem to be being nice to them, so cannot see them getting many penalties at all.

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:

Obispo wrote:

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:@Obi......I'd be surprised if we let Terlizzi go just yet..our Defence was a problem...

He'll be off when a bigger and better club is in for him...


look at Oddo

so what does Lazio have to do with his possible transfer?

*grumble*

I remember reading that Terlizzi was is a Roman and Lazio fan. You're putting off the inevitable Deano. Maybe Samp can sign Davenport to replace him... They're probably the only club stupid enough to waste money on hi- My mistake

Obispo wrote:

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:

Obispo wrote:

Deaño-WHUFC wrote:@Obi......I'd be surprised if we let Terlizzi go just yet..our Defence was a problem...

He'll be off when a bigger and better club is in for him...


look at Oddo

so what does Lazio have to do with his possible transfer?

*grumble*

I remember reading that Terlizzi was is a Roman and Lazio fan. You're putting off the inevitable Deano. Maybe Samp can sign Davenport to replace him... They're probably the only club stupid enough to waste money on hi- My mistake

Sampdoria>>>Lazio

Nothing's certain about Saviola yet, he said in an interview today he's still open to staying at Barca provided the financial aspect is right. I doubt it'll be to his liking though, so let's see how it goes.

kas wrote:Nothing's certain about Saviola yet, he said in an interview today he's still open to staying at Barca provided the financial aspect is right. I doubt it'll be to his liking though, so let's see how it goes.

Instead of warming the bench at Barca he better shift to a club that an use him better.

BTW how many times has he started for Barca this season???

He's had 1 start and 8 substitute appearances. I think that's in all competitions, but I'm not 100% sure.

Correction, I'm pretty sure that's league-only.

kas wrote:Correction, I'm pretty sure that's league-only.

then it's more of a reason for him to move. With Del Piero getting past his time & Trez not sure if he will continue, Juve will need some experienced strikers apart from their youngsters like Palladino & Bojinov

TarunDang wrote:

kas wrote:Correction, I'm pretty sure that's league-only.

then it's more of a reason for him to move. With Del Piero getting past his time & Trez not sure if he will continue, Juve will need some experienced strikers apart from their youngsters like Palladino & Bojinov

Yeah but he'll still be on the bench for when del piero wants to play. It's like going to madrid and wondering when raul is going to get dropped.

bluenine wrote:C Zanetti may not be special, but IMO he is >>> Carrick and Hargreaves as a holding midfielder - thats why I have him highlighted... He refused to play second fiddle to Cambiasso at Inter, something Vieira/Dacourt accepted.

Some of the not-highlighted ones can make teh starting XI of a top Serie A or EPL side.

110% wrote:Talented squad for sure, but nedved should be finished, and how much have the likes of del pierro got left. We are not just talking about a player, but the 2 of the main players of the team, without considering they lost cannavaro and zambrotta already. You also highlighted Cristiano Zanetti who is good but nothing special, so I am assuming that since he is one of the more talented the others cannot be all that special.

Of course this team is going to be near the top, and does not seem to be in as bad a condition as I thought, but without the ref giving them penalties in injury time, which was key to them winning quite a few matches. I actually see the ref's being harder on them in order to not seem to be being nice to them, so cannot see them getting many penalties at all.

It would be interesting to know whether he left because the manager didn't appreciate him, and maybe knew that behind cambiaso was viera then dacourt then him. If he was that great why didn't a serie A team take him? Also he left on a free?

We all have different opinions on players, and I do kind of like Inter and have seen them a lot live. In my opinion C Zanetti has never stood out in a match, as I said good player but nothing special. In terms of comparisons with the EPL I would say he is better than carrick as a holding midfielder becasue carrick isn't one. It's kind of like calling pirlo a holding midfielder, they are there for their distribution not tackling and breaking up play. In terms of holding midfielders he is way behind the likes of makelele, hargreaves, etc, maybe about the same level as Parker.