When he leaves Juventus, Massimiliano Allegri will leave Italy. “Certainly I will go abroad,” the Juventus coach says. He even breaks into English to emphasise his point: “In Italy, finished”.
Allegri is clearly a man with a plan. He believes that he has “five or six years” left in club football before becoming a national team coach, but before then there is one extremely significant piece of business to complete at Juve: winning the Champions League.
We meet outside the entrance to the first-team complex at the club's sprawling training ground in Vinovo, south of Turin - all gleaming glass and chrome - and pass Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Barzagli, deep in conversation, on our way to another...