There will be no tenth successive Scudetto for Juventus, meaning there will be no complete decade of dominance, but just what has led to the worst Bianconeri side in 10 years?
Andrea Pirlo will likely be the fall guy at the end of the season, with the rookie Italian coach likely to lose his job at the helm of Juventus' senior team.
What initially seemed like a rushed appointment after the dismissal of Maurizio Sarri, Pirlo took on the responsibility of the senior side, despite initially being brought in to coach the club's B team.
Why did this happen? Well, the understanding is that Juventus felt there was a very, very good chance of hiring Pep Guardiola in the summer of 2021.
Pirlo would be a steady hand at the wheel for a season until the Catalan coach arrived to really push the Turin club to the next level and finally win the Champions League again.
Even the best laid plans don't always come to fruition, and with Guardiola signing a contract extension with Manchester City, Juventus have all of a sudden been left with Pirlo as coach and no clear Plan B, which has been made more problematic by a string of poor results.
A 1-0 home defeat to Benevento on Sunday followed a dismal Champions League exit at the hands of Porto, and Juventus now sit a mammoth 10 points adrift of Antonio Conte's Inter.
However, the problems in Juventus' 2020/21 season are not merely down to Pirlo. This drop in quality has been coming for a while, especially with the team performing below expectation in the Champions League for the past three seasons, being eliminated by Ajax, Lyon and the Portuguese champions.
The reality for Juventus is their market superiority has gone; the astuteness with which they played the Bosman market since 2011 has deserted them.
Football, at its very core, comes down to who has the best 11 players on the pitch at any one time, and whilst the Bianconeri were once able to sign Paul Pogba for nothing more than a compensatory fee, their latest no-cost conquests have been Aaron Ramsey and Adrien Rabiot.
Cristiano Ronaldo was signed from Real Madrid to finally take the Bianconeri over the line in Europe, but his arrival all but signified the lack of Juventus smartness in the market.
In signing a player for 100 million euros, you're essentially admitting that you no longer need to focus all your energy on financially smart purchases, and the scattergun approach to free players is now clear for us all to see.
Ronaldo arrived in July of 2018, at the age of 33, and he has since found it difficult to move the team forward, despite continuing to score at an impressive rate.
The players around him, though, aren't as good as the ones he was playing with in the Spanish capital, and it shows.
Behind every staggeringly good Ronaldo moment with Los Blancos, there was a Luka Modric pass, or a Toni Kroos diagonal ball. At Juventus it's very much a case of 'Go on then Cristiano, do something'.
The Portuguese forward's salary is now a drain on resources in Turin, whilst the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't possibly have been predicted by any football club. All of a sudden, it doesn't seem so wise to have him at the club.
Staff turnover also hasn't helped behind the scenes. At the very beginning of Juventus' domestic dominance, there were incredibly talented people working behind the scenes on both recruitment and club strategy.
Javier Ribalta, Pablo Longoria, Beppe Marotta and Claudio Sclosa have all left the club, leaving Andrea Agnelli with far more control alongside Pavel Nedved.
Going from the best-in-class team to the current selection of staff members has also damaged the Juventus project that saw them rise brilliantly from seventh in Serie A to nine successive titles.
So where do the club go from here? It's difficult to answer this, especially with finances so tight at the Juventus Stadium. You'd think that Pirlo will be dismissed at the end of the season and perhaps a talented coach with clear pedigree would be targeted. Julian Nagelsmann would be the perfect candidate.
Then you're looking at ways to get Ronaldo's salary off the books, and Real Madrid have been linked with a surprise move to bring him back to the Spanish capital, although that wouldn't necessarily fit with Florentino Perez's careful financial work of recent years.
Following that, they need to build a team around a young core, specifically Matthijs de Ligt. Players may be available at reasonable prices, perhaps reuniting De Ligt with Donny van de Beek would be a start, especially if they can cash in on Paulo Dybala too.
For now, though, Juventus have to suffer through to the end of the season, knowing their period of dominance is over, and a gradual but clear slip in standards has led to the worst Bianconeri team since the 2010/11 campaign.