Good evening, today we came to ask you a specific question that we hope you will answer us frankly; Are you expecting Ronaldo to perform miracles on his own? (1) Do not rush, please, the question is much more complicated than it seems, because Ronaldo, and often throughout his career, may have suggested to you and us that he is able to do miracles, so perhaps the correct formula is: How many miracles does the experience of Juventus require to be Successful from your point of view?
Elma Aveiro, Ronaldo's sister, may have been the first to ask this question at all about Ronaldo's career, and please remember this information because we will need it later. Of course, talking about her comments on Instagram after the loss of the cup to Napoli, the statements that the wife of Buffon did not like and attacked, asserting that criticizing the team may anger other players and turn the cup loss into a family war. (1)
This is not the first time that a member of the Ronaldo family has commented negatively on his colleagues, and often it will not be the last, and the intensity of these comments in recent years suggests that they win the support of Ronaldo even if he did not announce it, but regardless of all that the most important question remains the same; Was Ronaldo expected after two seasons? (2) (3) (4)
In a lengthy Sky report published at the beginning of the summer of 2019, (5) Francesco Kosati, the network's correspondent in Italy, spoke of the "Juventus Grand Project"; The project, which began with taking over Anelli in 2010 and aims to turn the giant of Turin into the largest brand in Europe, perhaps because it is the only way that Anelli imagines to compete with the giants of the continent such as Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid. Juventus' transformation into a strong brand means higher profits, higher profits mean higher technical deals and more vocal and able to draw the attention of the world, and here the circle closes and gives clamor more power to your brand, and so on.
Kosati, for example, strikes Ronaldo's deal that doubled the number of the club's followers on communication platforms within 5 months, and redesigned the club logo to become just a simple sign of the Latin letter "J" with white stripes on a black background. Many did not pay attention to such detail, but rather considered it an overstretch in the 100 years of Juventus' visual legacy that was associated with the ancient emblem and the raging bull the symbol of Turin.
Agnelli was dealing with a matter of a purely commercial product, because stripping the Juventus logo of everything that links him to football, and converting it to a simple optical shape that looks like the Nike or Adidas brand, for example, will open the Bianconeri other markets to promote their name, which is what happened, as Juventus established a line to produce clothes His brand, which includes a variety of shirts, beachwear, sunglasses, and others, are all goods that no one would have bought if they wore their old crown and golden stars on their head.
A fantastic report that feels Juventus is on the way to become a superpower in the market soon after spending years relying on free transfers and secondments and using Marotta's insight into capturing underdeveloped talents or the starring stars Kabalu and Vidal. Great report, but it only tells us half the truth.
During the last two seasons, Juventus records suggest that something is not okay, and a suspicious smell has become common in recent years, the smell your nose senses when you hear that Juventus sold a player like Rolando Mandragura to Udinese for 20 million euros to become the most expensive player in their history. This is simply too cool to be true. (6)
Udinese is a bad club that in recent years has been keen to sell more than it buys, and in the last 5 years its transfer budget has seen a deficit in only two; The first was about 5 million euros, and the second was the year of buying Mandrajura with 35 million euros. This deficit is more than Udinese spent overall in the last 3 seasons, for example. (7)
Forget the fact that the next two players on the record Udinese transfer list are Roberto Motzi and Stefano Fiori for 10 million euros in the 1999-2000 season, and let alone the fact that the most expensive player Udinese bought in the last 5 seasons was Possito for 8 million euros, and that the average prices of players who The club bought them during this period was just under 3 million euros. (8)
Then let us tell you that a similar thing happened with Ricardo Orsolini, who moved to Bologna as the most expensive deal in the history of the club for 15 million euros, as well as Stefano Storaro who left for Genoa as the most expensive deal in his history with 16.5 million euros, and also Juventus's third or fourth keeper Emile Audero, who contracted With him Sampdoria for 20 million euros, a record number spent by the club for the first time in its history. (9) (10) (11) (6)
All of this happened in only the last two seasons since Ronaldo's plane landed in Turin, and if you add to him the sale of Cansillo to the city in another urgent deal, and brought Artur from Barcelona in another suspicious deal from both sides, and the strong insistence on selling Dybala last summer, you do not need to be An economist to realize that something is wrong. Juventus is suffering badly at the financial level.
Reason? Ronaldo is often, the man who swallows 60 million euros alone annually, half of them in the form of salary and the other half as taxes, and we are not talking here about Real Madrid or Barcelona or Manchester United with their enormous resources and annual returns that exceed 600-700 million euros annually, but a club that did not break a barrier The 400 million euros are never in its history, and Ronaldo's salary represents more than 10% of his full annual budget!
Of course there are intuitive questions that you will never find an answer to; Such as asking about the desired benefit of signing Ronaldo if you would be forced to sell Dybala, and about the importance of contracting a young defender who is still at the beginning of his career like de Licht for an astronomical number in light of the poverty of support in other centers, and why Juventus did not rely on a less expensive option such as Merritt Demeral, who sits on his bench and does better than de Liechtene, and why would you bring Sarri if you intend to give him a midfield made up of Emery Chan, Rapio, Ramsey, Matuidi and others?
The surprising answer is that Juventus' grand project is not that great. In fact, it is not a legitimate project, the only answer to all these questions is that expanding Juventus' spread and awareness of its brand was the main and main goal of all these moves, and otherwise it was additional benefits that can be dispensed with, this is the only answer that can be included under all actions Juventus.
It is useful for Juventus to win the race against defenders like De Licht, and it is more useful to sign with Ronaldo even if he will lose Dybala, and it is wonderful to appoint a coach like Sarri known for his offensive thrilling ball after years of conservative economic Alegre football, all of which are very important but no headlines Guaranteed on the field.
Indeed, most of all, many of these steps will not help the team win the hoped-for Champions League title. A club that wants to carry the same ears contracts with Sarri is a ridiculous joke, and a club that spends 100 million euros in one player for the same goal and then deprives him of sufficient conditions for his brilliance is a ridiculous joke, especially when he is thirty-four years old, especially when his salary has this effect on conditions The club is generally not just the team.
At that moment she discovers that we were asking the wrong questions, and it was first to ask: Did Juventus ever give Ronaldo what we expected before we asked for anything? Of course, you do not need to read the rest to know the answer.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more Serie A goals (40) since he joined Juventus than any other player in the competition.
Just when you think he might start slowing down ... pic.twitter.com/60GSXrRS9e
- Squawka Football (@Squawka) February 2, 2020
From the start it was expected that Ronaldo would suffer in Italy, simply because, contrary to what Ronaldo himself promotes, playing for Juventus is not a challenge by any standard, or rather the real challenge begins in February with knockout matches in the Champions League, and until February comes, Ronaldo will find himself locked into a lazy team playing with minimal effort because he knows he will win the league even if a meteor hits the club's headquarters.
In Spain the situation was burning all the time, the rivals get twice the league titles that Real Madrid gets in a decade, and it has a star that scores and manufactures at fairy rates, and the need for a similar star who leads the team was intuitive, and the challenges posed by the rivals each season at the local level are reinforced by The idea of polishing this star and seeing it as a loyal savior.
It is completely different in Turin, the players do not need to pass to Ronaldo simply because they were winning without him, and Napoli, Inter and Milan do not have one star in half its value, so there is no need to pay attention to the title scorer or golden shoe, and there is no need to carve the way of play in order to give the don Opportunities and goals, nothing.
All of this was self-evident before Ronaldo arrived in Turin, and it became clearer afterward on the field, simply because Juventus Allegri does not create a lot of opportunities, neither Real Madrid nor compared to the rest of the Serie A even, and in the two seasons Ronaldo spent with the Bianconeri were teams like Atalanta Lazio, Naples and even Milan surpass Juventus in the number of opportunities it creates during the ninety minutes, and all of them are outpaced by Real Madrid, the team that was making the most number of opportunities in LaLiga in the last 5 seasons of Ronaldo there. (13)
Even crosses whose analysis of the "Piotr Foot" channel showed their importance to Ronaldo in the first season were neglected, Ronaldo would score 50% of his goals from crosses with Allegri if we excluded the penalty kicks. In this situation, Juventus was the worst thing he could do is sell the most important source for the games, Joao Cancillo, and the result is that most of Ronaldo's crosses this season came from two main sources: Dybala, who did not participate all the time and was trying to prove himself by recording in every match he participated in, and Douglas Costa He suffered a long injury, which kept him out of attendance for almost the entire season. These details may seem more important than the number of followers on Twitter and Instagram at the present time, especially if you add to it a dilapidated midfield that is almost unable to create opportunities at sufficient rates. (12) (15) (16)
The result is that Ronaldo's rates in preparation and building games, which did not change much in the last seasons with Real Madrid or Juventus, have become more important in Turin, because they have become a greater proportion of the team's outcome, and the result is that Ronaldo needed 14 penalties in two seasons in order to score 44 goals with Juventus in the league, about 30% of his goals, the highest percentage in his career ever. (14)
Cristiano Ronaldo has taken nine penalties in Serie A this season:
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He's scored every single one. pic.twitter.com/RMiYIZ4g1m
- Squawka Football (@Squawka) June 26, 2020
Add to that the fact that Ronaldo has become resorting to long-term payment more intensively than before, and that he recorded only two heads throughout the current season, despite it being the undisputed point of excellence in the world and the shortest way to exploit his abilities, and the fact that he needed to score almost 5 goals from One team effort without the help of teammates to reach 23 goals this season. (18) (19)
With all this in mind, the attack on Ronaldo after the Napoli or Milan match does not seem fair, perhaps some of it was due to the fifth penalty shootout that he is always determined, but the expectation of miracles from it is not logical, especially when Juventus is unable to provide the solid ground that allows a star like him With brilliance, though, Ronaldo did it last season against Atlante, and in the current season he is recording more than expected for the first time in the last seasons of the league.
The only problem here is that Elma Aveiro's very logical statements are statements we hear for the first time, simply because the culture of the shot adopted by Ronaldo strikers is now taking advantage of a cup final here or a penalty there to blow up what he provided with Juventus is what Ronaldo promoted most during his era with Real Madrid, When the opportunity and play industry statistics were not important, or any statistics in general, the only number that meant anything was the number of Ronaldo's goals at the end of each season, regardless of any other details.
We agree with Elma Aveiro, and if her opinion expresses Ronaldo's point of view, we also agree with him. Ronaldo cannot perform miracles alone, and Juventus did not fulfill his expected aspect of the deal, and no single player in the world, whether Ronaldo or others, can bring a championship, that is, a championship, even if it is the Italian Cup and not the Champions League, without real influential assistance from his colleagues. We just hope that Ronaldo voluntarily realizes this fact.
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Sources
Alex Sandro
Juan Cuadrado
Joao Cancillo
Mattia de Chilio
Marcelo
Danny Carbajal