There is no upheaval on the horizon and no revolution — even though more than a few people, among supporters and beyond, were hoping for and will continue to hope for one. Juventus are going forward with Luciano Spalletti, convinced that there is the time, the means, and the method not only to continue, but above all to reverse the trend. The trend, in the league at least, is clear: 11 points from 7 matches, one humiliation against Lazio that has opened wounds that will not heal easily. But the principle is established: kicking over the milk pail right now is not in the bianconeri‘s plans.
Carnevali’s Message — Continuity, With Elkann Abroad and in Agreement
The institutional message filtering from CEO Giovanni Carnevali — in close contact with John Elkann, who is abroad on business matters unrelated to football — is unambiguous: the plan is to continue with the project that was built and extended contractually last spring, when Spalletti’s deal was extended to June 2028. Tuttosport’s Stefano Lanzo frames the position clearly: pretending that everything is fine, burying heads in sand, would be counterproductive before it was even wrong. Many things are not working, and Sunday’s result is the product of a failure to grow as a group — in personality, yes, but also technically.
The congenital defects of this Juventus squad remain the same after a year of Spalletti’s management, and the horizon has expanded considerably: if in October 2025 the former national team coach had been brought in as an emergency measure to drag a group out of the quicksand, now the choice has been converted into a project with broader ambitions — but also with results that must be delivered to the people at the top.
“Confidence Must Be Confirmed With Facts” — the Second Chapter
The second chapter — “La fiducia va confermata con i fatti” — is the internal framing of the continuity decision. It is not unconditional. The club’s support for Spalletti comes with the explicit understanding that the confidence being extended must find its justification in what happens on the pitch. Sunday’s hot-headed post-match analysis had led Spalletti to put himself in question, and to question whether the squad still followed him. The management meeting — constructive in tone, Lanzo reports — addressed those questions and arrived at the same answer from both sides of the conversation: the path forward exists, the project is worth defending, but results must come.
“The Fans Are Calling for Conte” — the Third Chapter
The third chapter acknowledges the external reality that no institutional statement can wish away: the fan base, large sections of it, are calling for Antonio Conte. The name that Llorente endorsed at the start of the week, that Ravanelli said “hurts football to see sitting at home,” that Tacchinardi’s broader question about “evaluations” implied, is now circulating openly in the environment that Carnevali is trying to manage. The institutional response — continuity, 2028 contract, constructive meeting — is a direct counterpoint to that noise. Whether it holds depends entirely on what happens between now and the November international break.
