Juventus boss Didier Deschamps has admitted that he never expected to be coaching the club in Serie B. “It’s unthinkable,” he stated on Thursday.

The Old Lady have been demoted to the Second Division for their involvement in the Calciopoli scandal, a situation which the Frenchman concedes is extraordinary.

“No one could ever have imagined this would happen, it’s unthinkable, but that’s life. My job is to make sure we now win,” he stated.

Although the tactician is still dreaming of a First Division recall after another appeal, he’s primarily focused on making the Bianconeri great again.

“We’re still hoping to start this season in Serie A – given the differential treatment afforded to the other clubs I think we have a strong case,” he noted.

“We’ll have to wait and see though. Whatever happens, Juve are still Juve and we have a new story here waiting to be written.”

A new chapter will have to be penned by new players though after the high profile departures of Emerson, Lilian Thuram, Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluca Zambrotta and Patrick Vieira.

“There are the established players here, the new arrivals, the younger players who already have experience in A and B and those who are just beginning their careers here, who add invaluable youth and enthusiasm to the squad and who will get their chance when they are ready,” added Deschamps.

One familiar face will definitely remain though in the shape of club captain Alessandro Del Piero, a former colleague of Deschamps.

“Alex will captain the side as he has done in previous seasons, he is the natural leader of this team,” the former Monaco boss noted.

“We played together many years ago and although the roles have changed now, I would never change the experiences we had together as teammates.”

Juventus continue their pre-season training with a friendly against La Spezia on Friday and want-away striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will play.

“It will be his first game for the new Juventus,” the Coach stated. “His future? His agent can say what he wants, I have no time to waste.”

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Read that last part. Deschamps is starting to sound like Murinho...

"We're still hoping to start this season in Serie A – given the differential treatment afforded to the other clubs I think we have a strong case"

If this happens, I'll stop watching italian 'Serie A'.

About Zlatan? He'll quit Juve this month. For sure.

Isnt there a relegation release clause on his contract ?

I guess not, but I like their new coach, let him keep the zebra

You like hime???

Look at what he said



It was pretty clear that Juve where the ring leaders in this mess and to come out and say that the other clubs deserved the same penalty that they recieved is pretty ubsurd when the involvemnt that we had and Fiorentina and Lazio, was only a drop in the Juve ocean of match fixing.

And like portugal said if they get back to serie A after the appeals I will stop watching serie A because if that happens the whole league will have lost all it's credibality in my eyes and I'm pretty sure that it will lose credibality to a lot of other people's eyes.

Even if it has already lost most of it's credibality, I still believe that these people who will give out their verdicts still have an ounce of common sense left in them and they will leave Juve to roth in serie B where they are.

Well I think Ibra has the right to leave, but some other details should be decided by the club, so that makes it difficult.

Anyways I don't think Juve will keep someone who doesn't want to play, they are just tring to make more money to buy more referres in Seria B.

Ibrahimovic's agent, Mino Raiola, said: "A meeting between Zlatan, me and Milan? I don't want to talk cause that would compromise the negotiations."

So Zlatan seems to be a sure thing for us, I hope he isn't the big signing to surprise the Milan fans by Braida. Let's hope that we'll see a defender come also, hopefully a RB or CB

What he said was just talk, nothing solid. I like their new coach bcz he wants to keep Zlatan ( It was sarcasim ).

Anyways as much as it looks like Zlatan might be headed to Milan, as much as I am feeling aggrivated .. Ohh and if Juve do make it back to Serie A, zero credebility.