Juventus Need A Complete Reset To Return To The Top Of The European Ladder

It was only 10 years ago that Italian giants Juventus were one of Europe's best and most attractive teams, they were dominating the Serie A, and they were live competitors in the Champions League, fast-forward a few years, their club has collapsed, their culture is lost, and they are back where they were when they began their charge to the top back in the 2000s.

Juventus are a team that everyone still thinks of as one of the few European Giants. They have the history, and they have the commercial and global size to be recognised as one of those teams, however recent seasons and a slow collapse has taken them to new lows, and it is time something big needs to change for the former Italian number one.

Although they only trail behind other massive global teams like AC, and Inter Milan, and the likes of up and coming clubs like Napoli, the mountain isn’t so far to climb as they think, and it is just a matter of re-discovering that culture once again, and building up what was once a great team. Having managerial changes every year, no clear set-out transfer strategy, and a lack of direction, Juventus have a lot to clean up on before competing with the best of the best again, and it all starts with finding their structure again.

After last night's collapse against Galatasaray in a game for the ages, dumping them out of yet another Champions League campaign, looking back on the game, it is clear they don’t have a team worthy of competing in the biggest competitions of them all, and desperately need to find new talent, and build a solid transfer plan. Although they have superstars like Jonathan David, Kephren Thuram, and Kenan Yildiz, their team really doesn't have much structure, and just looks like a team that has been put together on a piece of paper with no real thought or structure behind it. A subtle mistake they have made over the last 10 years is the lack of home grown talent they have, they only had three Italians in the lineup last night, and it looks a real concern that their lack of local talent is as bad as it's ever been.

What doesn’t help is the revolving door of managers every year. Sure they have had some subpar managers, and have had coaches that haven’t adapted or performed well, however what really hasn’t helped is the fact they now have a team based on so many different philosophies that the team doesn’t work. They have players playing with other show just haven’t adapted to each other well, they have too much variety and no clear plan with those players, management change on paper just looks like one in and one out, but the effect it has on the team, players,and what has already been built is massive, and Juve look like massive victims of it.

Every football fan would love to see Juventus back in the big leagues, they would love to see them have world class players like the did with Chiellini, Bonucci, and Buffon, fans would love to see Juventus competing at the top level playing with the best of the best, but massive changes are needed, a clear plan needs to be put in place, and something needs to be built, not just prepared and ditched.