Paulo Fonseca, Head Coach of AC Milan

CorSport: ‘Can’t make any more mistakes’ – Fonseca hopes for European cure as scrutiny mounts

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AC Milan are back in Champions League action this evening against Slovan Bratislava, and their search for one key thing continues: consistency.

Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews) this morning has a front page which piles the pressure on Paulo Fonseca, reading: ‘He can’t make any more mistakes. Fonseca under pressure’. Indeed, Fonseca’s Milan are described as a ‘case to study’.

While in the league the team cannot find the consistency that they need fight for the Scudetto, in the Champions League they actually have the real possibility of finishing in the top eight, despite defeats against Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen in the first two games.

Before making any premature calculations, however, the Rossoneri first have to face Slovan Bratislava this evening. They are bottom of the bottom of the class in the Champions League and have failed to collect a single point after their first four games, conceding the most goals too.

Will this Milan, so unstable and indecipherable, manage to get back into the top eight teams in Europe? They will battle their former midfielder Juraj Kucka and the one who is defined in his homeland as the ‘Slovakian Guardiola’, namely Vladimir Weiss.

The disappointing draw against Juventus has come with a lot of fall-out, because while Fonseca and some players continue to talk about belief in fighting for the title, the league table tells a different story.

Saturday’s match risks having important repercussions on Fonseca’s future, because the club ‘are starting to question themselves on the choice made last summer’, but also the maturity of some of the star players in the squad.

The morning presence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Geoffrey Moncada at Milanello yesterday is a sort of confirmation of the concern that is starting to emerge. Thus, even a harmless Slovan can think of causing some more damage.

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7 Comments

    1. I believe he will be sacked if we doesn’t win each of the next 3 fixtures with the Coppa Italia match against Sassuolo included. Then afterwards also getting some good results in the remaining part of December and showcase some encouraging performances against Atalanta and Roma.
      I might obviously be wrong here but it certainly would make sense to me.

      1. The issue is bigger then the coach. I definitely want this coach gone but can you rely on this management to replace him well.

        Never. Thes3 are the same people who hired him to begin with.

        It’s the same thing when people talk about “would you sell leao if a £100 million offer came” or “would you sell theo for £80 million etc”

        It’s not about how much they are sold for It’s about if you would risk losing your top player where the money is left in the hands of this incompetent management.

        If they had leao or theo money it would be very possible we are in this same situation next season minus who ever they sold.

        If we sell leao for £100 million it means the management would splash £30 million at most to replace that position.

        That’s my issue. These guys are not reliable.

        1. Well it’s not like I overall disagree with your assessments in regard of the management as I always wanted us to keep Maldini to begin with so that should tell what I actually think about the current crop of people in our management. I do nevertheless doubt that only such a small percentage of sales would be reinvested because that is not really how they have acted up until now. It’s debateable though whether the cash would be wisely reinvested.

  1. Problem is he has figured out just when to win to postpone a departure. His gods are with him when it comes to biying some time…only concern is management who keep believing, keep hoping…in no time the season will be over and we will plan for 2025/26 with him still in the mix.

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