\"Alla Juventus vincere non è importante. È l'unica cosa che conta.\"
If you listened to this week’s episode of The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, you’d know that I’ve got some strong feelings about this year’s group of forwards. Indeed, in our season-ending extravaganza, I named a forward for MVP, LVP, biggest surprise, and biggest disappointment. The dysfunction up front was a key point in Juventus’ problems […]
Coaches come and coaches go. Entire boards resign in disgrace, get fired and new names are brought on board. Millions of Euros change hands over the course of the summer transfer window. A multitude of spanking fresh adidas kits hit the clearance racks, season after season. And, after all of that, Juventus still do not […]
Today is the first day of June. That means Juventus striker Dusan Vlahovic is officially in the final month of the big-money contract he signed when he made his even bigger-money move from Fiorentina in January 2022. As we’ve been hearing for a few months now, Juventus would actually like to extend that contract, but […]
Some may call it an extravaganza. Others may say it’s simply a tradition we’ve done every year of this podcast continuing on despite a 2025-26 season to mostly forget. Either way, we are now a week out from another Juventus campaign coming to a close. And that means it’s time for us, your favorite Juventus […]
You know what they say, championships are won with great defenses. Strangely enough, that wasn’t the case this season. Juventus had a better (!!!) defensive record than Serie A. champions Inter Milan this season, as we conceded 34 goals compared to Inter’s 35. The Bianconeri had the third-best defense in the league after Como (29) […]
For some random reason, starting our annual ratings series for the 2025-26 season with a quote from Tony Soprano feels rather appropriate. It is from one of the final episodes of the series, as Tony and Paulie Walnuts are sitting at a table in Florida having dinner with some friends (old and new). As Paulie […]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is nearly upon us, and Juventus looks set to have a good amount of representation. Whilst certain players like Pierre Kalulu and Jérémie Boga have been overlooked by their national team managers, and whilst others like Dušan Vlahović and Manuel Locatelli have failed to qualify for the tournament, there are […]
It’s Champions League final day, everybody. Hang out. Talk some ball. Watch what, on paper, looks to be a very, very interesting matchup between two very different styles of play. Can Paris Saint-Germain make it back-to-back UCL titles? Or will Arsenal make it a dream season with their first Champions League trophy? Time to find […]
Around the same time that Juventus’ interest in Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker became a pretty well-established and well-reported fact, a potential speed bump came about: a contract clause in his soon-to-be expiring deal added another year onto things. That meant, instead of him being a free agent this coming summer, Alisson’s deal now ran through […]
This is the news cycle we live in as people who write about football. The season isn’t even cold, and a World Cup is on the way, and the coming transfer window is still foremost in everyone’s minds. There’s a lot to happen before silly season truly comes upon us, but the rumors are already […]
The chances seemed rather low that Juventus swooping in at the last minute and trying to make departing Liverpool fullback Andy Robertson re-think his expected choice of going to Tottenham Hotspur after Spurs narrowly avoided relegation to the English Championship on the final day of the 2025-26 season. That’s because they were. According to Fabrizio […]
With a whimper, not a bang, we bid adieu to the 2025-26 iteration of Juventus. Only two weeks ago, this team had complete control of their own destiny. All they had to do was beat two teams that were no higher than 12th place in the league table and they could salvage their season with […]
As we head into the final days of May, there is only one name being linked with Juventus and the expected change in the starting goalkeeper spot, and he is the one who has been constant the last couple of weeks. Juventus want to sign Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker, and they aren’t exactly denying that […]
We know that Juventus are very interested in a player currently employed by Liverpool to become their starting goalkeeper next season. However, it looks as though Juve are looking to try and bring another player from Merseyside, although this one is more of a last-minute kind of style. No, it’s not Mo Salah or one […]
It’s official. Juventus cemented their status as a fallen giant. Scraping by the last few years and barely making it into the Champions League has now taken its toll. Juventus are not a top-four team anymore, with Sunday night’s 2-2 draw with Torino in the Derby della Mole sealing the Bianconeri’s fate and sending them […]
It’s hard to describe just how disappointing the end of the 2025-26 season was. Between the pre-game controversy that led to an hour-long delay, the hammer of Juventus’ elimination from Champions League contention at halftime, or the blown 2-0 lead that led to a disappointing 2-2 Derby della Mole draw to end the season in […]
We all knew it would be unlikely that Juventus would get the necessary help they needed to make it into the Champions League on Sunday. But on a chaotic Matchday 38, the way Juventus’ European fate would be sealed would be unlike anyone expected it. Serious crowd trouble marred the season-ending Derby della Mole. After […]
This is the bed that Juventus have made for themselves, and now they have to lay in it. The result is a 2026-27 season that will involve Thursday night football in the fall and into the winter, and who knows just how many roster implications that are still to come over the next couple of […]
MATCH INFO When: Sunday, May 24, 2026. Where: Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, Turin, Italy. Official kickoff time: 8:45 p.m. local time in Italy and across Europe, 7:45 p.m. in the United Kingdom, 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, 1:45 p.m. Central time, 11:45 a.m. Pacific time. STARTING LINEUPS Juventus starting XI (4-2-3-1): Perin; Kalulu, Gatti, Kelly, Cambiaso; Thuram, Locatelli (c), Conceicao, […]
As simple as it sounds, it feels rather appropriate to state the following: What a difference all of seven days makes. This time last weekend, Juventus were sitting in third place and completely in control of their own destiny when it came to Champions League qualification. But thanks to their 2-0 loss to. Fiorentina, that […]
Juventus manager Luciano Spalletti has received some very deserved criticism following his squad’s 2-0 loss to Fiorentina last weekend that has put the Bianconeri’s chances of qualifying for the Champions League next season in serious peril. And as a result of that sudden change of fortune for both the manager and the club as a […]
The final weekend of Serie A for a few months is upon us. The only thing 99.9% of us are completely focused on is what the top four of the league table will look like come the final minutes of Sunday night. Juventus, having entered Matchday 37 in complete control of their own Champions League […]
In a final weekend of the 2025-26 season in which Juventus needed to beat rival Torino and get plenty of help, manager Luciano Spalletti needed all hands on deck to even have a chance to make the near-impossible happen and see the Bianconeri somehow get into the Champions League. That first part doesn’t look like […]
It has been another incredibly disappointing season on the whole for Juventus, but Kenan Yildiz has been an undeniable bright spot amongst all of the other doom and gloom that has surrounded the club. He was recognized as such ahead of the final weekend of the 2025-26 season. Yildiz was named Serie A’s Rising Star […]
Regardless of whether Juventus qualify for the 2026-27 Champions League, they will undertake a significant overhaul of the squad this summer. A victory over Torino in Sunday night’s Derby della Mole may not be enough to secure a place in UEFA’s top-tier competition, which is a sad indictment of the club’s uninspiring 2025-26 campaign. While […]