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According to Transfermarkt, Juventus was the big spender in this summers transfer market,
spending 85.7 million euros in total as the club completed full acquisitions on a number of players
including Alessandro Matri and Fabio Quagliarella, who will be joined by fresh faces Arturo Vidal,
Mirko Vucinic, Eljero Elia, Stephan Lichtsteiner and potentially the best deal, Andrea Pirlo, who
arrived from Milan on a free transfer.
The good news is that Italy, with a 1-0 victory, have secured qualification to the European
Championships in Poland and Ukraine next summer. The bad news it's not that bad is that the they
haven't been living up to the hype recently. Italy have been compared with Barcelona an awful lot
during Cesare Prandelli's tenure in charge of the Azzurri, but any viewers.
Serie A finally got underway last weekend and the main story to come out of it was a team of the
week Juventus with an opening day 4-1 win over Parma in the beautiful new Juventus stadium. Sunday
afternoon saw match day 3 underway (unofficially day 2) with Juventus traveling to newly promoted
Siena. An attack-minded Juventus was a joy to watch with their attacking 4-4-2 formation (4-2-4).
After a quite incredible week which saw Internazionale coach Gian Piero Gasperini lose his job
just three games into the Serie A season, one thing is abunduntly clear in the world of Italian
Football the Scudetto is definitely there to be won.
For the first time in a long time, there is no clear front runner to win the league and there is
a growing belief that one of as many as 7 or 8 different clubs could be crowned champions at the
end of the season.
Juventus might be on top of the Serie A table but it is too early to consider them as serious
contenders before they can register a notable win against one of the elite teams such as Milan or
Napoli. The upcoming fixtures will offer the Bianconeri the perfect opportunity to measure their
improvement and how far they have gone since seeing former captain Antonio Conte take over as
coach.
