Massimiliano Allegri has returned to Juventus barely 24 hours after the Turin giants sacked coach Andrea Pirlo.
“Welcome back home, Max!” Juventus said in a tweet to announce the re-appointment of the coach who won five straight Serie A titles with the club between 2014 and 2019.
“Now we are ready to begin again with Allegri, to build our future together; with his enormous professionalism, his moral strength, with the brilliant ideas of a coach capable of shuffling the cards, both on and off the pitch,” Juventus said in a statement.
The 53-year-old led Juve to four consecutive league and cup doubles with Italian Cup triumphs in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
But Allegri fell agonisingly short in the Champions League, losing to Barcelona in the 2015 final and to Real Madrid in the showpiece match two years later.
He will be tasked with leading the Bianconeri back to the top of the Italian game, after they finished below champions Inter Milan, AC Milan and Atalanta this season.
It will be Allegri’s first job since leaving Juve two years ago, with Maurizio Sarri also having lasted just one term, in 2019-20.
He had also been linked with the Real Madrid job, but that remains vacant after Zinedine Zidane’s resignation on Thursday.