Were he a fictional character, he would be a caricature. Agnelli was the maniac, for instance, who thought trifling little Atalanta getting a Champions League place by merely ‘qualifying’ for it by ‘finishing in the Champions League qualifying positions within Serie A’ was a bit off when it meant Roma – a far bigger and more important club – didn’t get in the Champions League due to something as arbitrary as ‘not finishing in the Champions League qualifying positions within Serie A’. Obviously, this can’t go on.Īgnelli’s ideas are, almost always, entirely absurd and so nakedly geared towards big club success and profit as to be entirely beyond parody.
Should be a popular one this week, at least, thanks to the noble views of a man who just wants what’s best for our wonderful sport, even if those things sound suspiciously like they might actually be absolutely f***ing terrible yet by sheer coincidence quite useful for his club, Juventus.Įuropean football’s cartoon supervillain Andrea Agnelli, back front and centre this week to discuss how the game can be better for e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶o̶n̶e̶ Juventus and other massive clubs, which is all that matters.Īgnelli, big chief money-counter at Juventus and also head of the in-no-way nefarious and self-interested European Clubs Association, pops up from time to time with his latest wheezes for how football could be tweaked so that it finally starts looking after the handful of very big and important clubs instead of the current system which clearly makes things much harder for your Juventuses and Manchester Uniteds and Real Madrids by making them compete with all those other silly little clubs on essentially equal footing, with only vast advantages of wealth to keep them in front of the riff-raff.
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