A current Juventus star claims it would have been better for the team if Cristiano Ronaldo left earlier than he did.
Ronaldo's three-year stay in Turin came to an end in the last transfer window after completing a return to Manchester United in the final week of the last transfer window.
Veteran defender Giorgio Chiellini feels Ronaldo's late departure in the transfer window did not help the team's start to the season.
"We had arrived at a point in our relationship where Cristiano needed new goals and a team that would play for him, because when he finds a team like that he is decisive. He is proving it in these months and he has also shown it with us.
"Here at Juventus, a programme of rejuvenation and restarting was born. If Ronaldo had stayed, he would have been an added value, but it is normal that he thought more about the present than the future.
"Ronaldo left on August 28, it would have been better for us if he had left earlier. We paid something for it, a little bit of a shock, we paid something for it in terms of points. If he had left earlier we would have had time to prepare better."