Come off it. Dybala was the best player in the league in 19/20. He's had 2 inconsistent seasons - the last, when he was constantly injured - and 18/19 where the problem really *was* cristiano, and allegri's inability/unwillingness to fit them together. He's been the best player in serie A in 16/17, 17/18 and 19/20. And he wasn't in 15/16 only because Higuain was a monster
They still have the best squad in the league, and arguably the 2 best players in the league with Chiesa as well.
They're worse off, but they have Allegri on the bench. First game was a fluke with Scesny gifting udinese two goals. So they had a bad game at the beginning of the season, so what
Honestly I disagree with that, especially with things like Dybala being Juve best player in 19/20.
Yes he was definitively good in that season but people are desperately trying to rate players that unblock some important games and score beautiful goals and are technical, then forget about what regularity really means.
Dybala had an excellent 11 goals and 11 assists in Serie A that year, that's a very good season, but then you check that Ronaldo had 31 goals and 6 assists, even if you want to remove the penalties he was still more involved in more goals than him.
And it's not a surprise that Dybala's excellent numbers were helped by Ronaldo as well, this isn't a zero sum game and players benefit from each other.
In the Champions League where was Dybala against Lyon? Ronaldo did his part with 2 goals yet again (the second year in a row he was the only Juve player that actually scored in the knockout stages).
Those "easy goals" that Ronaldo score may not look much but they're absolutely decisive and they're not as easy as they seem.
You lost Ronaldo and suddenly you lost the ability to fill the 30 goal void of those tap-ins and penalties - from 100 goals you got to 70 and not "golden ball" Modric nor "now free" Benzema nor "neymaresque" Rodrygo were able to generate the numbers they had without him.
Dybala is irregular both in form as in injury form
Last year in the same game they both got to 100 goals for Juve, Ronaldo is the fastest player to score that amount for Juventus, Dybala needed around twice the number of seasons.
Numbers don't say everything but Dybala has never been anywhere close to be decisive for the team if things don't go right for him. Ronaldo just does that regardless of the direction the wind is blowing.
As for Juve they're been terrible in the past years with or without Ronaldo and with or without Dybala.
It's not Ronaldo's fault that Allegri didn't use them together. Ronaldo kept doing his job so ask Allegri why. Ronaldo supported Dybala (see his dybala celebration when he "returned" to the team) and liked to play with him.
I don't rate Allegri that much actually.
Don't get me wrong, he is a good manager but I don't think he is as good as people paint him. I'm very open to have my mind changed so let's see what he can do this year - I think Juve will struggle to get top4 so let's see.
Remember when people were saying how good was Ronaldo playing in that first season even if he wasn't scoring much?
He had Cancelo being excellent in attack and Mandzukic as an actual finisher as a partner in attack.
Those were sent away and with the braindead transfer ever since it was over.