Last season will be hard to live up to on and off the pitch, but we said the same thing a year ago and look what happened…
When Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis allowed his Scudetto-winning coach Luciano Spalletti to see out the final year of his contract back on the farm in Tuscany, he was left with the unenviable task of finding someone capable of replacing a history-maker.
Juventus aren’t what they once were and Scudetti have been won with around the same number of points as Garcia achieved in his first season at Roma, which was a club record… until Spalletti bettered him in 2017. But Garcia has only lost one first-team player and if he checks his ego at the door and doesn’t change too much — a mistake Benitez made when taking over Mourinho’s treble-winning Inter side in 2010 — they should be OK.So you want to be an American, eh? Dance rock and roll? Play football instead of baseball. Serie A has certainly given that impression this summer with the arrivals of Timothy Weah at Juventus, and Christian Pulisic and Yunus Musah at AC Milan.
Since then, other Americans have pitched up in Serie A without leaving much of a mark unless you literally count Oguchi Onyewu’s training ground bust-up with Zlatan Ibrahimovic back in 2010. There have been brief flashes of stars and spangles in rare ascendancy, such as Michael Bradley’s part in Roma’s 2013-14 title challenge and Weston McKennie’s knack for scoring big goals in big games in his first year at Juventus. But it was never sustained.
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