We all know the precarious situation of Italian football when compared to the past: everything has become stuck in time. The league has lost power and relevance, top national players are not abundant and the national team is weak. On top of that, it has missed three World Cups in a row.
As for the league and the philosophy of a more defensive style, that can even be defended, because it was that style that worked. But, as I said, they are lost in time. And there is also this constant swapping of managers: they leave one Italian club and go to another, always with the same ideas. Nothing evolves, because you are not going to evolve with managers from past generations, who are also partly responsible for the decline of Italian football.
Allegri was appointed by Napoli, reported yesterday, and the question is: how do you want to evolve if it is always the same names at the top of Italian football? Allegri has already managed Juventus, Milan and now Napoli. Conte has already managed Juventus, Inter, Atalanta and Napoli. Pioli has been through Inter, Milan, Fiorentina, etc. This is, without softening it, a recycling of managers with old ideas who will never bring you a good future.
Why was Como 1907 a national success? A young manager, excellent work by Cesc Fàbregas and the use of foreign players. The future, if nothing changes, has to be that, because Italian clubs and players are lost in time.
And I am not directly criticising Allegri, although I currently see him as a limited manager, with a football philosophy that I cannot appreciate. But you leave Milan, things go wrong at the end, the football no longer sustains you, you have to be sacked, and then you go to Napoli to probably do the same thing. It is a recycling of managers who, deep down, almost all think in the same way: a more defensive system, three centre-backs, and this is what Italian football has become. A league with no prospect at all.
Conclusion
Allegri will be the new Napoli manager to replace Conte, and this is another example that Italian football is a recycling of old managers who all think in the same way.