There was a meeting between Paulo Fonseca and his superiors after the defeat against Napoli on Tuesday night, the contents of which has now emerged.
According to Calciomercato.com, the discussion had on the one side Fonseca who was preaching his optimism about the growth of the team, and on the other side Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Geoffrey Moncada and Giorgio Furlani.
The trust in the coach ‘was confirmed but not indefinitely’. What might be the time limit? The game against Cagliari before the next international break, scheduled for November 11, could be decision. To simplify further: either the results change or the coach probably will.
There is no ‘strong and unconditional support’ present, with Fonseca immediately called to prepare fpr the trip to the U-Power Stadium to take on Monza on Saturday. At Milanello yesterday the directors were not present, preferring to keep distance, even if Frank Rijkaard visited.
Three months after his official appointment, Fonseca is called upon to unite the squad, with resolving the Rafael Leão case as the top priority. The coach has a lot of issues to address, including the points per game average which is reminiscent of the start under Marco Giampaolo in 2019-20.
A turning point is needed before it’s too late with Maurizio Sarri, Max Allegri, Igor Tudor and Edin Terzic still waiting for a call. None of the four, at the moment, are considered a first choice. Milan’s idea is to move forward with Fonseca, to get back on their feet with him at the helm.
Que rabia tengo!!!! Todos mal desdé el principio!!!! LA base la BASE!!!! DE un equipo que empieza una nueva era es un técnico con capacidad con títulos (o por lo menos!!!! Una liga que se conozca) y traes a este incapaz!!! Y mediocre!!! YA LA TEMPORADA TERMINÓ!!! SINO FUE DESPEDIDO ANTES O DESPUÉS DE NAPOLI… COMO EN 2015 /16 GAME OVER!!!!! 👍🏻🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🇵🇹🇺🇲🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮‼️
Let’s hire all of them.
Let’s hire Pablo
No, lets hire you. The nonsense comments you keep making and “analysis” of players is out of this world. YOu should be hired to show how much you know.
Hiring me would be a very good idea. And I’m cheap. I can safely say we’d finish in top 4 this season under me. Next season, if I get some good additions, scudeto.
Wouldn’t do much in cl tho.
Alright let’s do it, but I’m thinking treble or bust!
‘the directors were not present, preferring to keep their distance’. Ya because that shoes how united you are to the team. Can’t recall a time Maldini preferred to keep his distance because when we went through bad times with him there he was always close. U t people bash Maldini our one true legend and probably the ONLY person who really wantee the best for milan since galliani and berlu.
Exactly Maldini wanted whats best for Milan all the rest of these muppets are mercenaries.
#RedBirdOut
Milan don’t have a position for Maldini to cheer on the sidelines. As a SD he was a mixed bag of d*cks. I’m not even confident that if Saudi’s buy the club and ask him to run it “open wallet” style that he would succeed.
We need an experienced SD to unite and streamline everyone on board.
You mean the guy that brought Milan Scudetto with how many years of experience? I forgot, didn’t we win the title? Maybe I am wrong. Team looked more united than ever in the past 20 years? What are you actually talking about? How you don’t like Maldini? Just say that.
I love Maldini. But not as a Sporting Director. Got some things right, made many mistakes too.
And stop attributing the Scudetto to Maldini. It was a perfect storm of different factors. But people try to attribute it to one sole factor to fit their narrative…
“It was Maldini”
“It was Pioli”
“It was Calabria’s leadership”
“it was Tonali, Kessie, Bennacer…”
“It was Ibra and Kjaer”
Amen. The only blame would be losing a few players for free, which seems like blasphemy for some fans. And even that has been a strong consequence of the tight budget policy with a salary cap not evolving accordingly to the quality of the team and players.
Firing Maldini to replace him with a video scout and a clown is the same logic as selling Tonali to replace him with a bunch of donkeys and firing Pioli to replace him with Fonseca. Downgrades all over the team, at every level.
This guy does not have any facts to back his argument
He should have been fired long ago (only better action would have been, not hired in the first place). Now it’s becoming too little, too late.
First, I think that no good coach will want to walk into this mess. Second, I think we will probably be even worse off in terms of starting again from scratch with one fourth of the season already over. Third, it’s likely that cheap RedBird, if they fire the mediocre Fonseca, will just hire another mediocre cheap yes-man loser. It’s been rather clear that they do not want a top coach who is also a true manager of the team who will make waves and require expensive signings. So, who exactly would be a better choice that RedBird would be willing to endorse? It would be another lateral move or a downgrade.
The management (who are the main culprits) and Fonseca are destroying Milan, and the damage has mostly already been done; we became a mid-table team not only in points, but also in the way we behave as a club.
They will probably be wishy-washy about it, Fonseca will get a few good results which will delay any action, and we’ll likely just continue to go on with mediocre up-and-down results. When Fonseca then predictably fails to push this team into one of the UCL spots for next season, then and only then our management will finally panic enough to fire him, because he will have committed the only sin that they really fear, that is, he will have prevented the team from making millions in UCL prizes and merchandise.
Let’s be serious, they are a private equity firm. They have declared in all words that winning is boring and not their priority. What they want is the financial account being positive and the club achieving valuation so that they sell it for a big profit down the line. Given that not making the UCL not only decreases the account balance but also damages the club’s valuation, THAT’s when they will fire Fonseca.
Mark my words. This is what will happen. I will be very surprised if anything different happens.