Over the last few days, the most successful team in the history of Italian football have recorded significant victories off the field as well as on it.
Chairman
The governing body declared its disciplinary proceedings against Juve,
While that legal battle is still in its opening skirmishes, it removed any imminent threat of the
On the pitch at the
It followed another 3-2 win over Spezia in midweek as
Juventus and the end of a decade dominating Italian football
The team in black and white may have a colourful past but they have utterly dominated the last decade of Italian football, winning nine successive Serie A titles from 2012 to 2020.
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They have also had to weather the drawn-out departure of
Last month, three years and zero
Allegri, who stepped down in 2019 after winning 11 trophies in five seasons, is back at the helm and tasked with reversing the decline.
Off the pitch,
The pandemic’s shuttering of football stadiums contributed to record losses of €210m for the 2020-21 financial year as revenue contracted by 16 per cent.
In a letter to shareholders this week, Agnelli said the global health crisis had dealt “the heaviest of blows”, adding: “The damage caused by this event has been huge.”
Agnelli hoped the
Instead, the proposals swiftly collapsed under an avalanche of opposition, leaving
Matters have improved since then – Allegri has nudged the team up the table and the courts have sided with the
On the pitch, their improvement has only been enough to drag them to 10th in Serie A, 10 points adrift of early pacesetters
A new team is emerging from the shadow of Ronaldo, built around newer faces
Chelsea to provide sternest test of Juve’s nascent revival
They are set for their sternest test of the season on Wednesday evening, however, when
The Blues suffered the first defeat of their campaign on Saturday against
With a potent new attacking figurehead in
Uefa, meanwhile, has not taken the latest challenge to its authority lying down.
On Tuesday, the governing body announced multiple counter-measures in response to the Spanish court ruling that forced it to abandon sanctions for the
Noting that it “does not recognise the jurisdiction of the court in Madrid”, Uefa requested the recusal of the judge over what it deemed “significant irregularities in these proceedings” and made an appeal to a higher court in
“Uefa will continue to take all necessary steps, in strict accordance with national and EU law, in order to defend its interests and – most importantly – those of its members and all football stakeholders,” it said.
It means that the prospect of
While Allegri’s attempts to rejuvenate the Old Lady remain in their infancy, however, those concerns will continue to be academic.
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