Since one must never lose the sense of irony, someone suggested a solution in view of Bologna-Juventus scheduled for Monday evening at the Dall’Ara: send Thiago Motta for a time on the rossoblu bench and for the second on the black and white one. We’re joking, of course (but it’s better to clarify, because the climate around football is now more suffocating than that which prevails among the more radical Pasdaran)because the opportunity that the calendar offers is truly curious: to put together the coach who now belongs to the Juventus past, Massimiliano Allegri, and the one who will have to manage his immediate future, Thiago Motta. In Bologna, and beyond, they have known very well for some time that the Italian-Brazilian coach was chosen by Cristiano Giuntoli to concretely start the new Juventus cycle, the one that will bear its mark after a year of transition and “settling in” in which the relationship with Allegri gradually deteriorated as we approached the end of the season and they became increasingly the times of the now mystical “meeting to talk about the future” have been extended.
While, since the beginning of the year, the rumors about contacts with Motta have increased in parallel, leading to the rumors of recent days which refer to an agreement now reached on the basis of a two-year contract at 3.5 million per year plus bonuses and an option for the third year. In Bologna, after all, the only one who doesn’t want to give up is the president Joey Saputo who, they say, is trying the impossible to try to change the mind of his current coach. A logical, even noble attempt, but now considered in vain, so much so that the sporting director Giovanni Sartori is concretely working on the search for a new coach, with quotes from Maurizio Sarri growing and the shadow of Vincenzo Italiano in the background.
