There are a number of reasons why Juventus was correctly known with manager Thiago Motta. Every itself may not have justified its resignation, but collectively taken, the club had no real choice: he had to go. Here are eight reasons why he is gone, and three things that Juventus needs to come in the future, because Motta cannot be the only scapegoat here.
Reason 1: League position
Juventus is fifth in the Serie A, a point of the Champions League places, but also behind the old club of Motta, Bologna, and with both Roman clubs (Lazio in the sixth, AS Roma in the seventh) that in the table in the table. They are on pace for 68 points, which is less than last season.
Reason 2: Early outputs in cup matches
Juve qualified with a single point for the Champions League play -offs, after the end of the 20th of 36 teams, and was then bounced by PSV Eindhoven, who would give Zeven at home in the next round in the next round to Arsenal. In the Coppa Italia they were eliminated at home on penalties by Empoli, who are in the relegation zone and rested a number of starters.
Reason 3: versions in important competitions
The recent defeats against colleague Champions League aspirants Atalanta and Fiorentina are great, but you can compete against Benfica (a 0-2 loss at home) and the return bone against PSV Eindhoven (3-1 gone). They played with a lack of intensity and lack of urgency.
Reason 4: The eye test
Their build -up game is slow, creativity limited and has sterile. Strangely enough, they look nothing like the Bologna side of Motta, which did so well last season and whose versions probably gave him the job.
Reason 5: Bad player judgment
Juventus moved heaven and earth to sign Douglas Luiz from Aston Villa in a deal with a value of more than € 50 million, and then Motta started him in just three of the 17 league games in which the midfielder was recorded in the competition day team. Motta wrote to Moise Kean in the summer, loaded him to Fiorentina and now he is the second leading scorer in the Serie A.
Motta decided that he did not like Nicolo Fagioli, borrowed him (again) to Fiorentina and now the young midfielder is a mainstay. He also froze club captain Danilo, even after the injury of Gleison Bremer, which would leave the club through mutual permission.
Reason 6: The treatment of Dusan Vlahovic
The fact that the Veteran Center-Forward had a rolling tride clause in his contract with his salary balloon ferns for priceless levels (a monstrous € 22 million per season or $ 23.8 million) is not the fault of Motta. Nor is the fact that Juventus was unable to move Vlahovic during the transfer window. But the fact that, with the clock that taps his contract (which will be in 2026), the club simply cut off its minutes and did nothing to show him is by Motta.
Serbian no. 9 started only one of the six league matches in 2025. This, despite the fact that he is, even with his limited minutes, the top scorer of the club.
Reason 7: Confusion
Whether it is his crazy policy to rotate the bracelet of the captain or his preference for constantly changing the position of players on the Veld-Tim Weah has played five different functions, from right-back to center-forward, Weston McKennie has had six different roles and Lloyd Kelly has been a stacking of some defender, a pile of defender to be a pile of defender to a little defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender of some defender. doing. It is one thing to be flexible: it is something else if your own boys don't understand what you are trying to do.
Reason 8: Communication
Juventus is not just a club. Much has been accompanied by the role and he never seemed to understand that it goes beyond the simply sending a line -up and making replacements. Whether it was players under the bus after the defeat of Coppa Italia, the constant “lack of urgency” vibes – it is said that it is all the club to fire him after a lunch meeting last Friday in which he was seconded last Friday – or defeated a Knack with many players with many players with many players with many players with many players) Having km), Motta seemed to have a km), Motta seemed to have a km to say, Motta seemed to have a crack to say, Motta seemed to have a crack. Influence the wrong picture, both internally with the players and externally with the fans.
However, it is not just about motta. He was authorized to make bad decisions and there must also be responsibility for that. So here are three more steps that the club has to take.
Step 1: Take a long, hard look at Cristiano Giuntoli
Of course, the Juve Sporting Director took over a financial basket case with € 320 million losses in the previous two seasons and bad contracts in the books. But there is also a series of dubious decisions, both incoming (Carlos Alcaraz, Tiago Djalo) and outgoing (Dean Huijsen, Nicolo Rovella) that have little to do with Motta. And of course most of the movements with motta at the helm did not live up to the costs: from Nico Gonzalez to Kelly, from Teun Koopmeiners to Douglas Luiz.
Giuntoli's task is to identify talent that helps his manager to do his job and deliver it for the right price. Except, it is quite clear that it did not work as it had been hoped. If he needs help in terms of scouting or supervision in terms of not doing bad deals, or an HR course in terms of how to keep the players happy with their boss, then Juventus must get him. Or get a new sports director.
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Step 2: Do not throw the baby away with the bath water
Despite all the (rightful) criticism that Giuntoli and Motta earn, there have also been positives. Young players from Juventus Next Gen have been given space and have generally shown that they can contribute, or Nicolo Savona or Samuel Mbangula or Kenan Yildiz. That is the way forward. After years of ignoring the youth system among earlier bosses, some got a chance in the Giuntoli era. There is no reason to reverse that.
Step 3: Give Igor Tudor a chance and, if not, do not lose sight of the big whole
All the buzz about interim boss Igor Tudor is about how much he loves the club and how he can install “Juve values” (whatever that means) and how important it is for them to end at the Champions League places. That's great, but if he is doing well and you think he can make you move forward, give him the chance to convince you that he earns the job in the long term.
Don't get me wrong: I don't think Tudor is the second coming of Pep Guardiola. His career is a checkered and some will be tackling him with his year as an assistant of Andrea Pirlo (although what many forget, afterwards, that season was not as bad as some suggest), but he has had more hits than misses. (Although a valid question is why – after having done it relatively well, as he did at Marseille and Lazio – he doesn't get stuck.)
Give Tudor the opportunity to impress you, and if it doesn't work, don't listen to that part of the fan base (and ownership) that do not seem conscious to the reality of the financial situation and who will immediately demand an Antonio Conte or a Roberto Mancini (with the type of expenditure that follows immediately).
Juventus is still in transition, but there is a blueprint there, no matter how imperfect (and how imperfect motta was and Giuntoli might still be). It would now be a mistake from that.
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