Ferrara gets Juve backing after crisis meeting

(GSM) – Ciro Ferrara remains in charge of Juventus, for now. On Monday, the club board held a crisis meeting but concluded that the coach can’t be hold responsible for the poor results and decided to keep faith with Ferrara.

Sunday’s defeat to Chievo was Juve’s fourth league defeat in five games. The Bianconeri now lie fifth in the Serie A table, thirteen points from league leaders Internazionale.

Ferrara’s future has been the subject of intense speculation for a while now but Juve’s deputy director general Roberto Bettega has reiterated his support for Ferrara and insists the club have no plans to sack the former Italian international.

“We go forward with Ferrara, as we always said,” he told Corriere dello Sport.

“He came out smiling from this meeting and this is already an answer. Have we told Ferrara that the problem was him? No, evidently we did not have to tell him that.”

Juventus are expected to make large investments on the transfer market but Bettega denied any links.

“We won’t be signing any players because we are just waiting for the ones who are injured to return.

“Mohamed Sissoko is our first capture. Mali have been knocked out and he will be back for the Roma game, he is our most important reinforcement. ‘Momo’ is very important for us.”