Video: Evra derides ‘soft’ Juventus players and sees Manchester United comparisons
Patrice Evra released a video attacking Juventus players as ‘soft’ and seeing comparisons between Igor Tudor’s sacking and when David Moyes was fired by Manchester United.
The former Bianconeri hero is a regular on social media and put out his statement on Instagram after the surprising dismissal of coach Tudor, just 11 competitive games into the new season.
Evra has message for Juventus players
“Dear Juventini, I saw some messages from people saying they want me as a director or a coach, but I retired four years ago and won’t go back into football. This is because I would have to sacrifice everything for football, and I am enjoying myself too much right now. I am a happy man and therefore I will be selfish about it,” said Evra.
“I just want to go back on the sacking of Tudor. Thank you coach for everything. This is a message for the players.
“When they fire the coach, it means you haven’t done your job on the field. It only happened to me once in my whole career, when I was at Manchester United and they sacked David Moyes. I felt like s**t, and I hope the players right now at Juventus feel the same way, because they’ve gone through three or four coaches in a couple of years now.
“You are at Juve, you have to take responsibility. The problem is this doesn’t work on the new generation, it is a soft generation. So all the commentators and pundits who are ex-players are wasting their time talking to them.
“We were football players, we played for passion, for the shirt, for history, to put food in the mouths of our families.
“This generation are athletes more than players. They are brands, they are rappers, fashionistas, get involved in politics. There are too many distractions.
“This is why I am not harsh on them, as we didn’t have those distractions. We would eat, sleep, play football, that’s it. The world has changed, not just football.
“Juve have changed completely, we have lost the real values. I remember my first game with Andrea Agnelli, I was happy to see the history everywhere, we had Pavel Nedved, Platini, others.
“One day I will return to football, but not now. I am just saying this because when you play for Juve, you have to sacrifice everything, including your family.
“The best league I won in my whole life was with Max Allegri in 2014-15, I think we were 13th in the league, lost to Sassuolo, many players wanted to get rid of Max, but I saw the same thing at United when they tried to suggest Moyes was the only reason they were losing.
“Remove the coach, now there is no excuse. If you don’t want to stay there at Juve, then leave. You are too soft.”
Juventus are widely expected to appoint former Italy and Napoli boss Luciano Spalletti as their new coach later this week.
Meanwhile, Massimo Brambilla has been given the reins as the caretaker manager for Wednesday afternoon’s Serie A fixture against Udinese in Turin.