Thiago Motta: What went wrong to Juventus for the former Bologna boss?

The question marks could also be raised on Juventus’ relationships in the transfers market during the time of Motta at the club.

Weeks after reaching Juventus, he supervised the signature of £ 42.35 million from the midfielder Douglas Luiz from Aston Villa.

Such a significant disbursement suggested that it would be a key player for what Motta wanted to do, but Luiz started only three of the 17 championship games in which he was included in the day team.

Striker Moise Kean was allowed to leave to join Fiorentina in an agreement for a reported £ 10 million., external He is currently the second highest scorer of Serie A with 15 goals.

Motta’s focus was to make Juventus defensively solid and reached it, as they did not give a goal in their first six games.

But this seemed to limit them as a striker and while they did not lose much, they also attracted too many games. From 1 September 19 championship matches were unbeaten, but 13 of those ended up in a draw.

The Italian journalist Mina Rzouki said: “We cannot blame Thiago Motta for some of the choices that the players were brought, but it was almost as if he had continued to double his tactics, regardless of the fact that he seemed to lose the locker room when it was to absorb those instructions on how he wanted to play.

“He refused to be pragmatic in some way form or form and I think that when you have the second younger team, who were now losing confidence, yet you are still doubled on your philosophy.

“I think he made huge mistakes, despite having fun very well in Bologna.”