The coach is hungry for revenge and seems intent on accepting the challenge of reviving the Bianconeri. The offer includes a contract until June and renewal in the event of Champions League qualification.

Now that Igor Tudor is no longer the Juventus coach, all that remains is to wait until the end of the match to find out the name of his successor. Strangely, the challenge is still open – it is curious that a club like Juventus did not announce the successor in the minutes when it announced the dismissal – and the challenge is set to end in a few hours. Tomorrow evening at the Stadium against Udinese, the Juventus helmsman will be Massimo Brambilla from the club’s Next Gen team. From Thursday, at Continassa, the club’s technical leadership will be in new hands: Luciano Spalletti is the club’s favorite. The Certaldo-born leader has a great, great desire to take back the stage in his own way: to erase the afternoon of June 29 a year ago – Italy’s absolute zero in Berlin against Switzerland in the round of 16 of a failed European Championship – and to restart a journey that is, in any case, full of good news and achievements.
Spalletti has already spoken with Juve and, this morning, he will speak in person with the club’s next CEO, Damien Comolli: if the two do not find themselves at odds on an empathic level, the agreement could lead to white smoke. The former Italy coach has turned down offers from Turkey and Saudi Arabia – it is not the right time for him to move abroad – but Juve’s interest has given him the adrenaline rush he once felt. For this reason, the Tuscan coach will not stand in the way of a possible contract until the end of the season with automatic renewal for one or two years if the team finishes in the top four. Spalletti, as an outside observer, is convinced of the quality of the Bianconeri squad because he understands how the team’s potential can be even higher: in his career, Luciano has experienced all kinds of formations and difficulties, variables that make him appreciate the versatility of several of the players at Continassa. Getting back in the game and doing so with the mission of giving meaning to one of the most evocative revolutions around is, for Spalletti, the challenge he is looking for because staying on the sidelines only rubs salt into the Azzurri’s wounds. “I inject the poison myself… I disappointed the Italians, but now I’ve changed,” repeats a man who, at the helm of the national team, wanted to conquer the world.

The others—  Igor Tudor leaves one morning in late October through his own fault and the responsibility of others: not giving him the support of a presence or a voice at the most delicate moment left him alone and exposed to the four winds. Since yesterday, Juve has added the economic weight of a new coach and a new staff to its balance sheet, as it did last March when Thiago Motta and his men were shown the door. And Juve will add, perhaps as early as today, the economic burden of a new contract for the bench in the immediate future: the upcoming capital increase will also serve this purpose. Luciano Spalletti is in pole position, with the starting grid reduced to a single row behind him: Raffaele Palladino and, further behind, Roberto Mancini are trying to warm up their engines. The former Monza and Fiorentina coach is on the list of the sporting director at Continassa, François Modesto: Palladino would be a low-cost gamble, but precisely for this reason, something very risky at a time when making another mistake would be unforgivable. Modesto and Palladino have worked together in Brianza, and the Juventus executive would not mind starting a new chapter side by side. Beyond Spalletti is Palladino, beyond Palladino is Mancini: the coach of the Wembley triumph at Euro 2021 would embrace the Juve project without hesitation, but the club has not gone beyond a few inquiries in the last few hours.

champions—  The post-Tudor game has begun and will end soon, very soon: the acceleration towards Igor’s dismissal is due to a relentless schedule that includes, next Tuesday, the fourth match in the first phase of the Champions League against Sporting Lisbon at the Stadium, a game that cannot be lost if the team is to avoid compromising its European campaign after winning two points out of three so far. Tudor exits the scene at the dawn of the Roman night: a defeat, that against Lazio, the result of yet another tactical and individual distraction. “I never take steps backward, I take them forward,” were the Croatian’s last words. The step backward is resounding, Juve’s crisis evident: Spalletti is ready to take on a reality yet to be discovered. Luciano da Certaldo is at the forefront of Comolli’s and others’ thoughts: the green light to talk came directly from the top, from John Elkann. The white smoke is expected today, or tomorrow at the latest: the former coach of the disappointing, last European Championship is driven by a desire for revenge against a world that has put him in crisis.