Juventus coach Max Allegri insists winning is what counts in football.

Allegri says even Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola needs to compromise to produce a winning team.

He told GQ: "Guardiola is an extraordinary coach, but look at what he did. Everyone starts from the bottom, he bought a goalkeeper (Ederson) who kicks eighty metres.

"I mean that often people let themselves be duped by things that don't exist: in the end there is a game to win.

"And all games are not the same, not to mention that there are many different games within the game."

Allegri also said of the state of Italian football: "The problem is that the players have become the coaches' guinea pigs, but football is an art.

"(Improvements can be made) but someone who is poor will not become good, at most less poor."