Interviewed by Corriere dello Sport, former Juve coach Gigi Maifredi said, “For months I’ve even been associated with Motta, but what do I have to do with Motta? I had fourteen players and two foreigners, instead of three. Motta has thirty players, one better than the other; he was wrong to want to bring to Turin the soccer he had shown in Bologna. Where he had Aebischer, Freuler and Ferguson, a midfield of the highest intellectual level and very receptive. Interchanges with those three came naturally. Locatelli is a very good player, Koopmeiners I love him, but he is a fish out of water. Thiago should have married a new path also because goals and expectations have changed on him.”
Juve, le parole di Maifredi
Thiago Motta, allenatore della Juventus
“It is obvious that in a club like Juve the logics and rhythms are very different. In hindsight, I can say that I too would have needed to coach a team somewhere between Bologna and Juventus for a couple of years. Roma wanted me, if I had gone there I would have begun to understand the general trend and, once at Juve, I could have done something more, also because in my head there was the possibility of changing the game, which was the reason they had chosen me. The proposal, I wanted to dominate. In those years Gigi Maifredi was very fashionable. The prospect of coaching Juve makes you lose your sense of reality and orientation. I was coming from an endless series of victories and I had not properly accounted for the difficulties I would encounter. I do not exclude that the same happened to Motta, although he, unlike me, experienced great soccer as a player at the age of eighteen,” he concluded. Meanwhile, a rumor speaks of Theo Hernandez at Juventus: “I tell you…” <<<
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