AC Milan are expected to announce Paulo Fonseca as their new head coach next week, a report claims, while the rumours about a late attempt for Max Allegri are unfounded.
According to what is being reported by SportMediaset (via MilanNews), in just a few more days Milan will officially have their new coach because the official announcement of Fonseca’s arrival is expected next week.
Lille confirmed his farewell in a statement they put out yesterday and this was followed by a message from the coach himself, who reflected on his two years with Les Dogues. Fonseca will sign a two-year contract with Milan, worth just shy of €3m net per season.
The source adds that the past few hours, the rumours about a possible return to Milan for Allegri have also circulated, but this indiscretion has not been confirmed. The Diavolo have made his choice for the post-Pioli era, going full speed ahead with Fonseca.
The Allegri clarification is in reference to a tweet from journalist Edoardo Mecca and a story from Rai Sport, who claimed that Milan have been in contact with Allegri to explore the idea of a possible return.
The 56-year-old coach is able to take on a new job after agreeing a mutual contract termination with Juventus, and Mecca stated that he is very much interested in going back to Milan. However, these claims seem to be baseless.
Yeah doesn’t seem to be an option anymore as Milan seems to have some pre-agreement signed with Fonseca, but maybe as it’s not yet official then Allegri’s agent just contacted Milan to ask whether they would be interested, hence the Rai news.
Anyways, I think from these 2 I would prefer Fonseca rather than Allegri. Allegri in the past years seems to have lost his ability to do something beyond being average. Like Pioli he was forcing the same schemes over and over again, which didn’t really give much result.
Fonseca is way from being perfect coach for Milan, but I see him as tactically interesting, he has some ideas (eg. playing attacking football, wingers to go towards AMF, give space for fullbacks) and his teams – even if eg. in Roma he didn’t do great results – played nice to watch attacking football. And as in Ukraine with good technically team he absolutely dominated the league, then it gives hope if he would get good quality players in Milan he would be able to do nice things. At least let’s hope so…
I’m not Fonseca’s number one fan but I would jump off a bridge if Allegri came back.
Let’s hope AC Milan management knows what’s needed for a highly competitive squad and make it happen instead of being too concerned with the money. Ultimately, they are the ones responsible and cannot blame new coach of the players. Time will tell !!