Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri
announced on Tuesday he would be staying on as coach of the Italian giants next
season despite another Champions League disappointment.
The Old Lady side crashed out of the champions League to
Dutch side Ajax after a 2-1 loss on the night in Turin and losing 3-2 on
aggregate.
“I met the (club) president (Andrea Agnelli) a couple of days
ago and told him that I will stay at Juventus. We’ll sit down with the club and
think about the future,” Allegri told a press conference.
“If I didn’t have the motivation I
would have told him so straight away, but this is not the case.
“I think that during these past five years we’ve worked well,
the players have progressed,” said Allegri, 51, who arrived in Turin at the
beginning of the 2014-2015 season.
“Winning five Scudetto is not easy, reaching two Champions
League finals, is not easy.”
Allegri has won ten titles with Juventus since arriving in
the 2014-2015 season, with the team just one point away from a fifth
consecutive Serie A title under his guidance.
“Juventus continues to grow on and off the pitch and there is
the awareness of having a great coach with us, with whom we will meet in June
to take forward the technical project,” Agnelli confirmed.
“For our part, we are aware of having been in the Champions
League quarter-finals for five or six years and are proud to continue along
this path.”
Juventus have won two Champions League titles in 1985 and
1996 — but have finished runners-up five times since, including under Allegri
in 2015 and 2017.
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