Juventus Champions of Italy

Well done.

Deserved.

Man City champions of England.

Ok.

Good for them.

Weather will be raging that you beat him to this thread.

K

Phaggot

OP is a Phaggot.

still undefeated

what the absolute fuck

Lock this and let Weather do the honours.

Weather has the exclusive rights to the Estonian league.

Will be nice to see them in the champions league again

Yes!

Who are their best players?

Spine of Buffon, Chillieni, Pirlo, Marchisio and Vucinic. They have other quality players like Lichensteiner, Vidal, Pepe and Matri.

To think they were in a similar predicament to us not long ago.

BladeGunner wrote:Weather will be raging that you beat him to this thread.

Eternal Witcher wrote:Lock this and let Weather do the honours.

I have to confess I was busy watching some American sports that I wanted to see, but I will post the normal article and my post here. I am also in the process of researching a new article that I will be posting either later tonight or tomorrow.

Good to see Juve back in the CL, shame Del Piero won't play

congrats from a Roma fan. juve deserve it

i went with a bunch of friends to watch the directa simulcast at the bar. didn't care much about the title race. but i was devastated that Inter had to win the derby. that means there is mathematically no chance of Roma playing in Europe next season =[

the pitch invasion was crazy

Eternal Witcher wrote:To think they were in a similar predicament to us not long ago.

They were?

Laurencio wrote:

Eternal Witcher wrote:To think they were in a similar predicament to us not long ago.

They were?

Weren't they? Failure to qualify for the Champions League followed by failure to qualify for any European competition. Quite similar to Liverpool, no?

They also played well against the big teams but dropped points against a lot of weaker teams (In reference to similarities with Liverpool, and this is in previous seasons of course)

Was this season a breakout year for Vucinic? I can't remember him being this good before.

BladeGunner wrote:

Laurencio wrote:

They were?

Weren't they? Failure to qualify for the Champions League followed by failure to qualify for any European competition. Quite similar to Liverpool, no?

Juventus

2006 - Calciopoli (Cannavaro, Ibrahimovic, Vieira, Lillian Thuram and Zambrotta all left)
2007 - Serie B
2008 - 3rd
2009 - 2nd
2010 - 7th due to piss poor management
2011 - 7th after two managers in one season
2012 - Champions

(Total transfer spend since Calciopoli - ~£120M)

Liverpool

2006 - 4th
2007 - 2nd
2008 - 3rd
2009 - 7th
2010 - 7th
2011 - 6th (Mascherano and Torres leaves, Suarez and Carroll bought to replace Torres)
2012 - 8th? (£100M is spent on new players in less than 2 years)

Other than both having finished 7th twice in a row, Juve's situation was considerably worse and they've handled it considerably better as far as I can tell.

We finished second in 2009

I'm pretty sure that those Liverpool rankings are wrong. Liverpool finished third in 2007, fourth in 2008 and second in 2009. They both plummeted from second to seventh in the space of a season and then finished seventh again in the following season. They're clearly similar situations. It's also pretty obvious that Juventus have dealt with their situation considerably better.

Glen Damon wrote:Was this season a breakout year for Vucinic? I can't remember him being this good before.

that's an insult. he was a better player when he was at roma and we don't even have pirlo to supply all those through balls. at roma, vucinic was our playmaker and our goalscorer

2011/12 Juve: 7 goals in 28 apps
2010/11 Roma: 10 goals in 23 apps
2009/10 Roma: 14 goals in 32 apps
2008/09 Roma: 11 goals in 24 apps
2007/08 Roma: 9 goals in 24 apps
2006/07 Roma: 2 goals in 5 apps
2005/06 Lecce: 9 goals in 32 apps
2004/05 Lecce: 19 goals in 20 apps
2003/04 Lecce: 1 goal in 5 apps
2002/03 Lecce: 0 goals in 3 apps