The Old Lady Speaks, Episode 109: BWRAO goes to Vegas; Pogba is already hurt

OK, so it wasn’t totally a vacation because the main reason we were there was for work, but that “work” involved watching Juventus during its first stop in its 2022 tour of the United States.

On this week’s episode of The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, we discuss:

• Our takeaways are back! Why? Because Juventus actually played a game a couple of days ago. Sure, it was a friendly, but it was a game and we like when Juve plays. (Most of the time.)
• It’s over to the breaking news that happened right before we hit record: Paul Pogba has a torn meniscus and it looks like he is going to miss the start of the Serie A season.
• Where do Juventus go from here knowing that they are potentially looking at the big summer signing in the midfield being out for a couple of months?
• Is it Adrien Rabiot time again?!
• Onto things of a more pleasant nature: The BWRAO boys — or at least two of them — went to Las Vegas to cover Juventus’ U.S. tour opener against Chivas this past Friday. And while the travel getting home wasn’t the best experience, the same can’t be said for what happened at Allegiant Stadium.
• Basically, being credentialed media for a Juve game was cool as hell.
• Seriously, Sergio got to ask Juan Cuadrado a question!
• Observations from the Juve-Chivas game, including just what kind of skillset that Ángel Di Maria brings to the table and how Max Allegri may try to take advantage of that.
• Twitter questions about: the current state of Juventus’ fullback corps, just how Juventus might use the rest of the money from the Matthijs de Ligt deal, and who of Fabio Miretti, Nicolo Fagioli and Nicolo Rovella will stay at Juventus this season.

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