Interviewed by the Bolognese edition of La Repubblica, the former Juventus and Bologna midfielder Giancarlo Marocchi also spoke about Thiago Motta. His words summarized by Tuttojuve.com: “How much has the coach had an impact? There is all Thiago in this team that plays splendidly. And there is all Thiago in a team that faces Udinese without fielding Calafiori. If even if you don’t agree with Thiago, you have to understand that he has a method, precisely the “Thiago method” which must be accepted. It’s a bit of his secret, it would be nice to understand some of his choices, but asking him is useless, this is the his secret and sometimes it’s nice to realize that you don’t understand anything about what he does. Do the results speak for him and for Bologna? Sensational results, then there’s the way they arrive, and to understand it you just need to look at the people who leave the stadium stadium. Their happiness takes us back, I already said it some time ago, to the Bologna of Baggio and Signori, of Kolyvanov and Andersson. One is Riccardo (Calafior, ed.), without a doubt, I put Freuler and on the same level Zirkzee, all three at very high levels. Shall we also include Ferguson? Yes, but also no, in the sense that he is more hidden, his paradox is that he is more hidden and yet you find him everywhere. Not easy to explain, let’s just hope we don’t miss it from here to the end. The recipe for staying on track in the last 4 races? It’s complicated. On the one hand, we should pretend to think that they are four games the same as the others, but only a madman can think that they are four games the same as the others, so I think it is inevitable and also right that there is a lot of tension, because it is impossible, in a situation like this, remain indifferent.”
