Journalist Graziano Campi has claimed that Max Allegri has had contacts with ‘people at AC Milan’ regarding the idea of taking over from Paulo Fonseca.
It has rarely been calm at Milan in the past few weeks and it has been another turbulent last few days for the club, following on from Paulo Fonseca’s decision to criticise the attitudes of certain members of the team after the win against Red Star on Wednesday.
Milan are going into their 125th birthday celebrations with a feeling of being on the edge of a crisis, and not just because of the poor results in the league to this point either which have not helped the new coach’s cause.
Thus, there is pressure on the Portuguese to engineer a turnaround, with the management no doubt watching the evolution of his relationship with the players closely, all with a top four finish the minimum objective.
Campi spoke on the show ‘Ti Amo Calciomercato.it’ broadcast on the official YouTube channel of the website and he comments on what Fonseca’s tirade might mean.
“Fonseca’s outburst makes me say that the rift between the coach and the players continues to exist . For this reason, I wouldn’t be surprised if before the end of the season, once mathematical qualification for the Champions League has been achieved, Allegri arrives, who is putting a lot of pressure on him to return to coach in Italy,” he said (via PianetaMilan).
“I know he has had several contacts with various people at Milan. Antonio D’Ottavio left the other day and Allegri would also like to bring Federico Cherubini as sporting director. He is someone who knows how to work with the Next Gen and the Rossoneri need to work with Milan Futuro.
“I saw him on TV with the Livorno coach watching a few games at the stadium, a sign that their bond and the esteem between the two is strong. It’s a combo that could be recomposed soon: if not immediately, in June at Milan.
“Allegri is desperate to return, to show Juventus that he is not finished and to finish ahead of the Bianconeri. It will be a very personal challenge for him against Cristiano Giuntoli.”
Rather have Bonera coach us than this guy…
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IncelTurtle… :))
I would rather electrocute my balls with a car battery than either coach AC Milan.
obviously, lmao…
out of all the coaches we can get Sergio Conceicao is the only replacement that I would take… Sarri too rigid with younger players and the rest of the coaches we have been targeted with aren’t that good…
Conceicao a decent shout, worth the risk and available. Agreed with most of the sentiment here, Fonseca is unimpressive but if he goes, Allegri is just another sideways (or backwards) step. We need someone better.
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I wouldn’t mind him either but same goes for Xavi if he is still available. I wouldn’t mind Sarri either but simply can see us hiring him. In the end if we were to sack Fonseca I expect us to sign someone off most people radar so doubt anyone of the before mentioned would arrive.
Xabi Alonso ain’t coming to Milan, not in a million years. He’s almost certainly going to go to Real Madrid when he makes a move. Bayern would love to get him, but I think he’s only going to go back to Spain and Real can outbid anybody for him.
He’s Basque, so it’s not out of the question for Barcelona to try for him, even though he played for Real.
The guy is a superstar in the coaching world.
Gerry Cardinale doesn’t get into the bidding for superstars
Not Xabi Alonso even though that would be pretty damn great but Xavi who coached Barcelona last season but to my knowledge currently not in a job.
If we’re talking coaches that are currently available AND realistic, I’d give van Bommel and Niko Kovac a hard look as well.
I’m making a screenshot of your comment if and only if either comes in, you are finished…. 😊🤣😂
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I think you sorta misread my comment as I didn’t say i would electrocute my balls if they arrived I said id rather elctrocute my balls than them getting hired as our coach. Quite the difference 😀
Don’t like his style of football but from the coaches available , the squad Milan has and the defensive issues they have, he would be the coach i want Milan to hire.
Juventus is great defensively even this season thanks to his principles. Motta has brought nothing new at Juventus. Great defensively, awful offensively.
Most juve fans sh!t on him and worship Motta but Juventus plays the same way this season with worse results even after over 200 m spent.
Through 16 games under Allegri with way weaker squad last season 37 points, 24:10 goal difference and 11 wins.
Through 16 games and 200+m spent under Motta 28 points, 26:12 goal difference, 10 draws.
BTW Atalanta leads serie A with 37 points this season.
His football isn’t pretty, but gets results and it’s not like Pioli’s or Fonseca’s football were/are pretty either.
anyone but lord allegri.. you must be insane to chose him over all other available coaches.
i’d take de rosi or juric over this turd in a hearbeat
Right, because De Rossi and Juric did such a great job at Roma, compared to the coach who has won 2nd most Scudetti (6) in serie A history and took a team to 2 UCL finals.
Ancient history. If you wanna coach who won something a million years ago, benitez is much better than allegri.
He actually won CL
Let’s talk about allegri of the second juve stin. That’s the guy you wanna hire. Not the guy who dominated serie a with no competition
With an awful squad, club turmoil and off the pitch distractions he finished 4th, 3rd, 3rd in his 2nd stint at Juventus.
Rafa Benitez hasn’t done anything worthy in over a decade while Allegri had his greatest success in these past 10 years.
At Bayern, Napoli and Everton Carlo Ancelotti was considered a failure and done as a coach and then Real Madrid resurrected his career.
Rafa Benitez, De Rossi, Juric, ha ha ha
That juve sqaud wasn’t awful at all.
Napoli had a worse sqaud and managed to win.
Don Carlo was never considered a failure. Wtf are you smoking?
Don’t even mention allegri and anceloti in a same comment.
Don Carlo was a failure at Bayern. They fired him a month into his 2nd season.
Failure at Napoli. Fired him 3 months into his 2nd season.
Failure at Everton.
52 and 46 winning percentage at Napoli and Everton.
Not a failure? Ok.
You were talking about Allegri 2nd stint at Juventus. Carlo Ancelotti went through a 4 year coaching period where he was a failure after a failure, worse winning percentage than Allegri’s 54 in his 2nd stint at Juventus.
Juventus finished 3rd in the year where Napoli won the scudetto, ahead of inter and Milan with weaker squad.
If you remember, Allegri Juve notch a lot of 1-0 win in the first half and dropped off horribly. So I fair comparison with this year’s new Juve. The bottom line is anyone but him.
Although allegri has won lots of trophies and titles he doesn’t fit our formation and he’s playing style is out of date and could never keep us with the likes of inzaghi, gasparini or conte, and Luis Enrique is rumored to be the next manager it’s not likely, I think the best options are sarri and conceicao I prefer conceicao because he a proven winner. But honestly we should go for Gasperini although he looks very comfortable at Atalanta he’s even come out and stated to the public that he wouldn’t mind joking us and he’s a very consistent strong minded manager
(Overall conciecao and Gasperini are the best options, and should be our top priority)
When will people realize that Fonseca is not going anywhere and we are stuck with him until the end of the season???
If we don’t make top 4 (or top 5 if Serie A earns again a 5th Champions League spot) then and only then he will be fired. Not before. The managers don’t understand football. They only understand money. Only if Fonseca fails to qualify for the UCL, which will affect the money, he will be fired. Not winning the league has no bearing whatsoever on his tenure, as far as how the managers see it. Remember, for them, “winning is boring.”
Now, if Fonseca does lose money for the club, then and only then, he’s gone.
Enough with all this speculation about new coaches. Half way into the season, Fonseca is not leaving, period, full stop.
Sure, having spent over €200 million, the owners concerns over the coach are purely financial. Stop making a show of yourself.
If we fire our catch mid season, then we literally wasted 6 months, not figuratively. It’s wayyy better for Fonseca to build on his team this season then evaluate him in the summer than fire him now, get a new manager then fire that manager in the summer.
If he’s prepared, (I mean Allegri) then he should probably give Milan a promise to collect the treble,(i.e Champions League, Coppa Italia and the Serie A) then he will be remembered for as the best coach that broke a worthwhile record with Milan
I’d rather sink with Fonseca than die a slow painful death with Allegri. This man is definition of anti-football.
I don’t want allegri either but he has pedigree and has won. Could be a figure that the players listen to and respect. Would rather stick it out with Fonseca at this point. Look at Roma don’t want that mess to happen to us.
This was the problem with getting rid of Pioli and now Fonseca….who are this management going to bring in to replace them because it’s highly unlikely to be Conceição or anyone the fans actually want.
Capello football was no different than Allegri. Both they both have something in common. Their teams are defensively solid and they win trophies.
If Allegri is given the right quality players then Milan can win titles with him. Love him or hate Allegri is a winner and a safer bet than Sarri or Conceição.
Personally, I would love to Allegri as Milan new coach but only under 2 conditions: 1. We need a proper sporting director not a scout and 2. We need to invest in strengthening the squad.
Our team has a good foundation to build on. A foundation that is better than Juventus who’s squad is far from a complete project and better than Inter who has an aging squad.
Reinjders, Fofana, Pulisic, Leao, Abraham, Maignan, Gabbia, Thiaw, and Morata should be confirmed next season. But there is still some investment needed to bring this team back up to challenge for the scudetto.
The only problem is Capello was a coach nearly 2 decades ago and Allegri was using it today and lost against Israeli club in CL.
We are kinda stuck with Fonseca until the league stage of CL is finished. A lot of money is at stake, and with luck we can even go one or two steps further. Replacing the coach midseason is anyways always a gamble. But if our situation in the league continues to deteriorate, there will be no other option but to send the drama queen that is Fonseca to wherever he came from.
First, I personally don’t prefer Allegri as a coach..
But he’s a great choice for management(who has no football knowledge) this season. Allegri can handle the current situation with players, and lose less games. He’s Yes-man guy. He won’t go far…
The twisted part is that this team doesn’t score much after just a brief time. He plays totally different football than what the owner wants, kinda contradict.. After this season, he will be the one that makes management feel annoyed, while he’s having good relationship with players. Emerson would be sold asap due to defense. It’d net a big lost from what they paid.
Wasn’t he throwing stones at as when he was at Juve?
Now wants to come back?
This is a definition of a ‘man’ without any dignity.
If he is the last coach on the planet, let’s play without a coach
Please tell me this is a joke?
There are actually very good options out there right now
If this idiot come i will not watch any game this season.
Allegri isn’t going to take a short term contract. Management want Klopp, who’ll be available at the end of the season.
Watchout !! Allegri in standby !! The Curva Sud already protest, so the end of December maybe Milan have the new coach…
At this point, as long as we’re not relegated I can’t consider a performance to be worse than the current one. 7th to 17th is all the same in my book. With Allegri the good thing is: we don’t have to worry too much about meaningless stats like possession, xG, passes in the final third, number of shots,… there will be no spectacle to enjoy, we either win or not. The bad thing however is that he is not very well known to like young players, so he might hinder Liberalli and Camarda’s development.
If Allegri was to take the club right now, an ideal (but not very likely) scenario for the next few games might look this this:
Hellas Verona-Milan: 0-1 (penalty)
Milan-Roma: 1-0
Juventus-Milan 0-0 (TAB 2-3)
Milan-Cagliari: 1-0 (penalty)
Como-Milan: 0-1
Juventus-Milan: 0-1
Milan-Gerona: 1-0 (penalty)
Milan-Parma: 1-0 (penalty)
Zagreb-Milan: 0-1
Milan-Inter: 2-1
allegri dosent have njoying football but i rather be with him than fonseca