Monday Poll: How confident are you that Igor Tudor can get Juventus into the top four?
03/24/2025 06:00 AM
There's a familiar face back in Turin here to manage Juve's final nine games of the 2024-25 season.
After nearly a week full of speculation that only intensified as the weekend got underway, Juventus made the move that so many had been calling for. Juve pulled the trigger and parted ways with under-fire manager Thiago Motta, who went into the international break with one-sided losses to Atalanta and Fiorentina.
To many, it was a needed change for a squad that looked like they were just about done with Motta being around as their manager.
To others, it was just another iteration of Juventus saying they want to build something long-term and pulling the plug on it before it had a chance.
No matter what you think of Sunday's news that Juventus and Motta have gone their separate ways, the man that will replace him for the rest of the 2024-25 season is a familiar name to longtime Juventini: former Juve defender Igor Tudor, who has managerial spells in Serie A with Hellas Verona and most recently Lazio while also serving as an assistant coach alongside Andrea Pirlo during the 2020-21 season.
Tudor knows Juventus and specifically when things were much, much better compared to where they are now.
The hope is that Tudor, who has been out of a job since leaving Lazio after the completion of last season, will be able to right the ship enough to get Juventus back into the top four and qualify for the Champions League. There are nine games to go for Tudor to try and accomplish that, with Juve a point behind fourth-place Bologna and a head-to-head matchup between the two sides still remaining come early May.
The question is: Can Tudor actually do it?
No matter what, we're going to find out, my friends. And the final nine games of the season can either be a reversal of what we've seen over the last couple of months or just a continuation of what we've seen from Juve for much of the 2024-25 campaign.
