Cristiano Ronaldo’s farewell to Juventus continues to make noise and to talk about it is Patrice Evra who in Juventus wore the shirt for two and a half seasons and knows the Juventus environment very well, as well as being a great friend of Cr7. “At some point he realized that he could become a scapegoat. He demands love and respect, if he has them he gives you life. And even those sentences of Allegri, spoken in public and not in private, have had their weight “
Patrice Evra he played for Juventus for two and a half seasons, not so much but enough to transfer the Juventus one into the DNA of the French winger. A bond that lasted a long time, even when he wore other jerseys and continues to this day when he greeted the football he played, with constant contact with his former teammates, the management, the fans. Because as he revealed in a recent interview with Repubblica, “you fall in love with the Juventus, of its history, of its work ethic, of the winning mentality, of everything “. And, therefore, when Evra talks about Juve, everyone listens to him especially if one of the central arguments is Cristiano Ronaldo, great friend of the Frenchman, fresh from the transfer (with controversy) to Manchester United.
Evra was absolutely not surprised by Cristiano’s choice to leave Juventus last summer and return to his first great love, Manchester United. A complex and complicated transfer with a thousand talks and considerations, perhaps not managed in the best possible way by both the Juventus club and the player himself, but which in the end turned out to be the best solution for everyone. Today, however, after a couple of months we return again to talk about Cr7 in black and white to look for the reasons for that farewell ahead of time on the end of the current contract. “He didn’t feel loved and respected”, Evra reveals.
Love and respect. These are the two cornerstones of relations between Cristiano Ronaldo and his clubs: “At a certain moment he understood that in Turin he was becoming the scapegoat for Juventus’ unsatisfactory results, he feared being considered the prime culprit of the failures“, reveals Evra to Repubblica. “A decisive element for his farewell to Juventus and when he realized that he could return to United, he didn’t think twice. After all, Manchester is his greatest love, where no one would ever dream of criticizing or disrespecting him.” .
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Speaking of respect, Evra also points out the incidence of Max Allegri in all this, with the return of the coach on the bench after the farewell of 2019. There is a particular moment in which the spark was triggered for the former French international: “The words spoken by Allegri at the press conference were decisive. When he said that Cristiano wouldn’t play all the games, Cristiano heard them and suffered from them. There is no need to say certain things in public, you have to say them in private. All the other criticisms directed at Cr7 have been a bit ridiculous and also a bit hypocritical “.
Therefore, the awareness of no longer being at the center of the project, the feeling that it could become the scapegoat for any negative results, but above all the role of Max Allegri has complicated everything. Evra’s critique of the coach who comes from the heart, given that he values Allegri on a par with Ferguson or Deschamps: “He has an incredible flair for football. Ferguson had it too but not like Max: he always knows how a game will go before it starts. Allegri is the Juventus coach par excellence, he married the Juventus ideology, he is a ‘hunchback’ in all respects and he knows how to prepare and motivate the team: he kills you with work, but he is intelligent because he imposes it on you with a smile “
