Ronaldo beyond the law – Corriere dello Sport

The whole question is summed up in a question: is the phenomenon, as the jurists would say, "dissolved by the laws"? Sarri says that no, at least to a law also the phenomenon responds. It is the harsh law of the field: when it sees Ronaldo wandering like a shadow without catching a ball anymore, Bagnoli's coach doesn't think twice and calls him back to the bench. There Juve instead it says that yes, the Phenomenon has no constraints. And even if it is questioned in the field, in substance it is not touched. And do not get fined. Not even if it sends to that country Sarri, desert the bench and leave the stadium before the final whistle arrives, with the risk of being absent on an antidoping call. As for the Phenomenon itself, a 55th substitution must have seemed so absurd to convince him the day after it never happened. Not only does he not apologize for his angry and anticipated dismissal, but he ignores him completely: "Difficult game, important victory!", He writes on Instagram before leaving for Portugal, with the air of one fleeing from Juve and reality.

To understand what is happening we need a little philosophy. Which distinguishes between Phenomenon and Noumenon, that is between the reality that appears to our senses and the reality behind all things and is its secret substance. The Phenomenon, as Sarri says with a hint of poison, has a little problem with the knee, a resentment to the collateral that prevents him from training at high intensity and which affects his performance. The Noumeno is instead an idea without pain that costs 87 million a year, between salary and amortization of the card, and has produced so far 57. Therefore it cannot be scrapped before re-entering into surplus. It means that the Noumeno needs to squeeze the Phenomenon until it has only one drop of energy.

Sarri will have to resign himself to this superior law. It will not be enough for him to show that the so-called phenomenal reality can do without the phenomenon or even replace it with other phenomena, which he recreated by making good use of excellent raw material, such as Dybala is Douglas Costa. Indeed, if this happened, the Phenomenon would tear up the Noumeno. And Juve would not be happy. But here arises a problem that the Juventus management may have underestimated and that concerns the revolutionary nature of the technician: his game naturally tends to overcome the Phenomena. How will it end? It will depend on Ronaldo's collateral, but not just that. We'll see.

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But there is a more immediate price that Juve has already paid for this affair. The immunity of the phenomenon to sanctions since yesterday is not an implicit attribute, but an explicit advantage. Bonucci paid the insubordination to Allegri with an eighth of Champions passed on one stool in the stands. Dybala managed with a public apology for a hand not close to the technician who replaced him. After indulgence towards Ronaldo, who would dare to impose the Juve style on those who had to challenge that style? From today the Bianconeri bench is narrower for everyone. And it will take all the imagination and authority of Sarri to keep it in order.

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