Happy to be back from injury, but definitely not happy being in Serie B. While I wouldn't say that he's jumping ship, David Trezeguet's comments have to hurt Juventus officials a little bit. Money quote:"Now we must achieve promotion, then we will see. In February my father and agent will come to Italy and we will discuss my future. Before I decide I need to know the club's plans. In any case, it's too early to speak now. To play in Serie A we need important signings, because seven or eight important players left, along with the coach. We need replacements if we want to return to the highest levels. I have been here for seven years, winning four Scudetti, so I think it's normal for me to ask for a competitive side, but there are more than seven months before the end of the campaign."The pressure is on management to come up with two things once promotion is achieved. First, the money to make the signings that can put the club back towards the top of Serie A. Where this money is going to come from, I don't know. Of course there hasn't been any money coming in from the Champions League, which has been a huge blow. I'm not exactly sure how much of the reported $101.4M they made off of selling players last summer they have left to spend.
The second task is actually going out and signing new players. If Juve needs seven or eight new top-shelf signings next summer like Trezeguet claims, it's going to take a couple of years before they win another Scudetto. [Channel 4]
In other Juve news:
- Mauro Camoranesi seems to be thinking the same. [Channel 4]
- An interesting run-down of how the Calciopoli match-fixing penalties were cut on appeal. [Reuters]
- The injury situation. [Juventus official site]
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