During our league drought, from 1989 to 2006 we won 3 Uefa Cups, 1 Italian Cup and 1 Italian Supercup, not an impressive amount of trophies but surely not shit all. The only time in which we really bottled a serie A win was in the 2001-2002 season (where there have been lots of dodgy refereeing mistakes in favour of Juve) and in the 1990/91, 1992/93, 1997/98 (the year of the infamous Juve-Inter with the Iuliano-Ronaldo challenge) and 2002-2003 we got a final 2nd place behind Sampdoria, Milan and Juve (twice) respectively, in all those seasons we were a good team and would probably have deserved to get the title. So the argument that we've always been shit before the match-fixing scandal is absolutely false. Also everybody should remember that Juve and Milan (alongside Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina) were punished just because of their own faults.
We're not taking things for granted, we just think we're a better team than the likes of Rubin Kazan and Dinamo Kiev. Anyway I don't think Josè is the only responsible for our poor CL campaign so far.
When it's the 90's I used to follow Serie A, and at that time it's the italian teams performing and short of dominating the EC. Yes, off course shit is an understatement to Inter side, but they have never won the leaque in that era. And I believe that is what Moratti wants, so bad.
If I were you i wouldn't be so quick to blame Jose for your CL, because we'll have to face it that Italian sides are not the powerhouse they were once, now it is dominated by English and Spanish team.
He has won more than Wenger but then again look at the teams he has managed. It would of been a monumental feck up if he hadn't won trophies at Chelsea considering the players he had at his disposal and at Inter he had easily the best side while the other so called big boys are going through a big change. His achievements at Porto are far more impressive and even then they fluked their way past your lot and then faced pretty average opponents, I mean Monaco in the final FFS.
I'm not putting him down but some people make him out to be some kind of all time great or something when he has nothing to live up to that kind of tag. Is it coincidence that the season Man utd got their act together they couldn't win the league? Both Arsenal and Man utd both were going through big changes when Chelsea won their titles. Then starting moaning when he wouldn't get more money despite the huge amounts he had already spent.
He's not all time great, he is that special.
Mind you that even when he inherited Ranieri's squad (most of them), he does have his handicapped of not being able to built his own squad, sheva and roman.
Instead of moaning, he works with what he have (yes, they're good), cue some other manager who's wheeling and dealing all the way back to square one.
Mind you, it took SAF 7 years to get it correct, he manage and he win it, first time. I believe that with a good squad + cash, top 3-4 is guaranteed, unless you're no good, but to win consecutively, it's not that simple, and for that alone I think he's special
pretty good!
