Leonardo Bonucci no-holds-barred on Allegri and Szczesny
Leonardo Bonucci unabashedly on Allegri and Szczesny
Leonardo Bonucci gave an interview to Prime Video in which he è returned to the quarrel with Massimiliano Allegri during a Juventus-Palermo match in February 2017 that cost him then exclusion from the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Porto.
"Marchisio comes back from the ACL and at 60' he was dead, I make him: 'Claudio get changed'. He didn't want to, I make a sign to Allegri: 'Change the'8 because he's dead' – explained the former Bianconeri defender -. After 5 minutes he changes Sturaro with Rincon and I make gestures to him and he sent me to f*** off. 'Think about being a player' he told me, 'you're an asshole' something like that".
"At the end of the game I came back, found Landucci (Allegri’s deputy, ed.) trying to stop me: I slammed him against the door and ran into the locker room. We attacked each other until they split us up. Then I went to him and said, 'you didn't understand what I meant to say'. He è heated up again with the poison he had and they brought me back out and itè è ended".
"He wanted me off the roster, then there's been mediation by the management,” continued the former Juventus captain.
I skipped Porto and then started playing again, but theì by then something was broken. In an attempt to mediate, they tell me that I am important and the coach è expiring, but before the Cardiff final they renew Allegri’s contract. Which for charity; it was also fair. We go to the final and after the game it comes out, not true, that 'I messed up in the locker room in Cardiff'. So I call the director (Marotta, ed.) and tell him, 'I am an asset of the company'? Don’t you think it’s appropriate to deny it since nothing è happened? '. And he tells me, 'We don't have to say anything'".
Bonucci a few weeks later moved to AC Milan: "It was the end of June, the prosecutor calls me and tells me that there'è this possibility. Juve and I talk, we say that the roads have to separate and Milan pops up. I lived so badly what had been done to me that I thought only of my own good. The year before, the club told me, 'We won't even sell you for 100 million'. Then they sold me to Milan for 42 million, and De Sciglio was also in it. Not è that they wanted to keep me at all costs…"
Finally, he also has some for Szczesny, who recently confessed in an interview that he didn't listen to Bonucci's speeches before the game: "I was hurt, I was speaking for the good of the team. Then, when I was talking he was not there, he was locked in the bathroom I won't say doing what, but he talked about it too. He was at a time when he had left soccer, then è returned: maybe he was confused. I was very surprised by the bullshit he said".