Paulo Fonseca was able to breathe a sigh of relief as AC Milan collected all three points in their game against Hellas Verona on Friday evening. However, as Daniele Longo reports, the faith from the management is decreasing.
Just like the 0-0 draw against Genoa, it was a poor display by the Rossoneri and individual brilliance was needed to break the deadlock. Youssouf Fofana and Tijjani Reijnders provided that, but the rest of the game was certainly dull with an XG of just 0.84 for the Rossoneri.
According to Daniele Longo, writing for Calciomercato.com, Fonseca managed to rescue his position once again as he did with the wins against Inter and Real Madrid. However, now halfway into the season and the team looking rather dire, the management’s faith in the manager is decreasing.
It’s clear that Fonseca will have to win the game against Roma, and then go on a winning run of sorts, to really be sure of his position as the head coach of Milan. The ownership doesn’t seem to be obsessed with winning, as Longo concludes, but they are obsessed with the accounts and finishing in the top four is thus essential.
In short, Fonseca will have to turn things around in order to keep his job until the summer.
Not obsessed with winning.
You don’t say? Firing Maldini was proof of that. Theo hasn’t been the same since. Neither has Tomori or Leao.
The problem here is why did they have faith in him in the first place? This just shows their poor judgement and lack of critical thinking skills
‘Hey, I got an idea. Let’s sign fonseca and buy Emerson.
We’re sure to finish top 4. Even fight for the scudeto.’
Someone said that and it wasn’t a joke. And they approved and did it.
The truth is Fonseca is not that bad, he has a clear way of playing, which is obvious to most, so it f your hiring him, surely it is only reasonable and logical that you the get players for purpose, can anyone say that the management did that, would opine to the view that they ( management) should ultimately loose their jobs as Malden did
Nah, fonseca is that bad.
Why is he bad? Because he stubbornly tries and tries with his style. A good manager would adapt to the players he has.
This is a good team we have. Lacking a DM and a proper rb, but a good team nonetheless.
Definitely a better team that bologna, lazio, fiora, juve have. Probably even a better team that napoli has.
And yet many experts here said Conte is an expired coach who’s only able to play with single rigid formation. Look how he adapt to play 433 in Napoli. And now we’re the one who stuck with a one dimensional low – mid level manager who only able to come up with 4231 and building from the back kind of s**t when we certainly have players with different characteristics than what he had in mind.
Experts on here can’t even whipe their as$ properly let alone give opinions on matters involving millions of €€
So basically Fonseca is the 1 trick pony that Conte was described to be? If he doesn’t have exactly the players he needs to play that 1 style of football he knows – nothing. As we can see. Mediocre coach, Torino level.
Let him stay,this season is lost. 10 place will be good
Its easy to explain what is happening.
Red Bird still have 400 – 500 million to pay Elliott for complete takover of the club. Their only goal is to have Milan financial sufficient club, so the dont need to use their own money to invest in Milan.
So Red Bird is smartly using their money to repay Elliott, and own the club.
Thats why they use “moneyball” sh?T etc. Buy cheap – sell expensive, like Tonali, and tomorrow Kalulu and etc, and invest enough, only how much is needed to reach champions league revenue.
So this is very effective way, to have sustainability, and long term only to gain money.
They easily can sell, any kind of player, because in long term, they will always find some fresh ones (like Jimenez reently), ho is going to play for lower salary, just to reach higher potential.
So they dont care about contracts, and who is going to extend or not, or which player Ibrahimovic is going to buy, only to be carefull the limit, of spending.
No need for explanation, we saw through them the moment they sacked a director who constructed a Scudetto and semi finalists of CL team. Sold Tonali and went after unknown “bunch of could bees”. But in order for this to work, you need to have a clear plan and strategy on who you want and how you want to play.
Here’s where they messed everything up. Sold Tonali and got RLC and Musah to replace him? Sure they cost half of what they got from Tonali but at the same time, these two are half a*s players. Bunch of mezz’alas just to play two pivot midfield. Wtf?
Calabria being pushed out with Emerson as his replacement? Kalulu out for Pavlovic?
Chuk a one trick pony was most expensive transfer of the summer. Were ready to spend big on a proper striker and got us Jovic, Morata and Abraham for free.
Was suppose to upgrade from Pioli and brought in Fonzy.
Sh*tshow is what Gerry brought us, after we were finally back on track. And for that I despise him and all three of his circus chimps.
You already explained everything. Moneyball found those players as most possible cheap players, that are going to bring (at least) 4th position and champions league result.
So, Milan spend less, and capital gain from sales, equals bigger positive balance sheet.
It is not only, Milan share, but also Red Bird and Elliott.
Unfortunatelly for them, Italian football is not game, where all foreign players, can compete with italians, thats why they are losing the spots.
Exactly. It’s been two seasons under RedBird and new management now but each season they’re worse. They’re not learning anything. Their fragile ego is what’s killing this team and made the environment toxic.
Milan probably won’t qualify for CL this season so it is a fail.
what’s the definition of insanity again?
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
I don’t understand how I, a guy who knows very little, has known for months that Fonseca has to go, that Conte would have been better, that Jiminez should replace Theo. I said in the summer we should do everything to replace Giroud with Retengui when he was avail. I also questioned sending Gabbia away. I know I’m not the only one. It boggles my mind.
.. I meant whenever that was that Retegui was avail. Not sure if it was the summer or before the summer.
Yes franco. Retegui is real no 9, the cheap and right italian to replace giroud.
We are 8th place and hardly beat a team like Verona. And somehow they can’t see how bad things are? This management is really pathetic. I said from the start that this clowns are not ambitious and don’t care for the footballing side of the club nor for his historic value, but this is a new low even for them. Who knows maybe not making it to a European spot is for the best in the end. Maybe that will finally force this clowns to sell and we can get our Milan back.
so nowadays milan only aim at the participation prize… no wonder football are boring today.
Yes yuuka.
Managements & owner: “who care about trophy when we can profitable. Who care about scudetto when we can get fourth place.”
Cardinale: “winning is boring”.
Fonseca: “boring style is my football style.”
Clickbait. Where’s the quote from management? There isn’t one. Coward.
By any palpable metric Fonseca should have been canned by Christmas. Giampaolo was fired after seven games. Fonseca has us out of Scudetto and almost out of Europe by Christmas and is still here.
So, Sporting Results are currently not a factor. OR, RedBird is on some sort of a long arc that is irrelevant of results. Like building a stadium and selling for a profit with only gradual minor upgrades to the club?
I don’t know.
If they fire him Ibra will get questions from reporters “Will you admit you were wrong about the manager?” and he can’t take that. So he stays so Ibra can maintain his image to himself.
Fking disgusting to see Ibra became the bootlicker 🤮