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Juventus have sacked Igor Tudor and are set to appoint Luciano Speletti.

With the ghost of Christiano still haunting the club, are they in crisis?

Well, with me to talk through it, we've got the athletics James Horncastle with us right now. James, it's been a while.

It's a good time to have a little rundown of Seria, see what's going on. It's also a league that's never dull or actually lacking in drama.

So let's start with Juventus. So let's start with the sacking of Igo Tudor. What on earth has happened there? Well,'s start with Juventus. Let's start with the sacking of

ego Tudor. What on earth has happened there? Well, I mean, Juventus would look at it and say

results. The results just have not been there. They were winless in eight games going into this

midweek round. And so they sacked Tudor on Monday. And in some respects, it wasn't a surprise because within that winless run, they'd lost their last three games.

They'd failed to score in any of them.

But for the event to sack a manager this soon is very unusual.

You know, you have to go back 55 years to see them intervene this early.

And also to be the first club in the league to sack them out of the season really shows

how drastic the executives within the club felt the situation is. Okay. And who's taken charge?

Is it a caretaker situation? How is that working right now?

So on Wednesday night, they played Udinez. They got back to winning ways, and there was a stand-in, an interim coach, Massimo Brambilla, Brambilla, who used to play for the club.

He's been coaching their next-gen team, which is a little bit like Barcelona B, Real Madrid Castilla, they play in the third division. It's a way of getting young players to play men's football and then bridge the gap.

But his record going into this one-off game that he was coaching was four defeats in five.

So again, it's not looking good.

It just gives you a bit of a broader picture of the whole situation at Juventus.

So Brambilla won this game, 3-1 against Doudinez.

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