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Allegri wants Champions League success, 6th straight title next season

Reuters

Milan - A record sixth Serie A title and an improved Champions League campaign will be Juventus' primary objectives for next season but Massimiliano Allegri said the champions must first secure a second consecutive domestic double.

Juventus failed to repeat its 2015 feat of reaching the Champions League final after crashing out of the competition at the last 16 stage to Bayern Munich two months ago.

But despite aims to improve next season, Allegri - who on Friday signed a new two-year deal with the club that has made him Serie A's highest-earning coach on €5 million per year - indicated their number one aim is a record sixth successive scudetto.

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"Our primary aim for next season, outwith having a great Champions League campaign, will be to secure a sixth (consecutive) league title. It has never been done, so we'll be looking to make history," Allegri said Saturday.

Juventus, who equalled its 1935 feat of a fifth successive crown two weeks ago, is away to Hellas Verona on Sunday when veteran striker Luca Toni will play his final game for the hosts.

The Turin giant is expected to stretch its unbeaten run to 27 games and, in spite of relegated Verona's ongoing woes, Allegri insists his team won't take its foot off the gas.

"We want to finish the season in the best way possible, against a Verona side that will be looking to take the bitterness out of their own season, so that we can prepare as well as possible for the Cup final," he said.

Juve face AC Milan, who sacked Allegri in January 2014, in Rome on May 21 and he believes the struggling Serie A giant will be a formidable opponent.

"I expect an angry Milan side, they'll be out to win to secure entry to the Europa League," he added.

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