Sergio Conceicao has been the head coach of AC Milan for less than two months, but he could already be heading towards an exit.
In the summer, Conceicao was a primary choice for Milan, but the Rossoneri ended up deciding on Paulo Fonseca to be the next head coach. However, after a few months of bad results, the Portuguese was sacked and his compatriot arrived.
With the side hoping for a better string of results, a Supercoppa Italiana trophy boosted hopes of a new future, but this has not been the case. Instead, the team’s struggles have continued and now the head coach is in question again.
Already, there have been mixed suggestions about the future of the Portuguese, and despite Zlatan Ibrahimovic reinforcing his position, there remains doubt about his future and Corriere della Sera are the latest to add to the situation, via Football Italia.
According to their reports, the head coach could lose his job before the summer clause, which would allow the parties to split ways ‘early’, if his side does not improve in the next week.
There are no suggestions about when this decision could arrive, but the pressure is piling ontop of everyone ahead of the two games against Lazio and Bologna respectively.
Not sure if we’ve ever had 3 coaches in one season but this would be a good time to experiment 🤗 😁
3 different coaches in the last 12 months and if they sack Sergio before the end of the seaon, that’ll make 4 in 12 months!! unheard of!! guess we still haven’t seen rock bottom yet!
In my native country, a team I follow once had 6 coaches in a single season.
In the third division of that same country, a team once had 9 coaches before winter.
I think Palermo under a different president had like 6 or 7 in one season where even one of them was hired again and Atletico Madrid while Jesus Gil had something like that as well from what i can recollect. Both. Both those presidents was extremely trigger happy.
Either way sacking Conseicao midseason probably would cause more trouble than being beneficial in my view.
Gerry turning into prime Zamparini🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Very smart from gerry. The coach has become cheaper and cheaper. This is good for our finance gerry zamparini.
#pioli 4 million a years salary.
#fonseca 2,5 million a years.
#conceicao 0,5 million for remaining 6 month. Then 2 million a years.
Good job gerry zamparini. Maybe we can still profitable next season with cheaper coach.
While I am certainly less than a fan of Sarge, the fact that management waited a year too long with Pioli, didn’t support Fonseca and chose wrong in Sarge seems a clear indication of where this issue lies.
I am impatient to see what Cardinale does this summer. But personally I’d like to keep Leao and most of our players while changing the management to one that can construct a viable team in the field in concert with a coach who can get his players to show up in the first minute of every game.
Sarge appears to be more of a corporal at this point.
100%
If Conceição isn’t going to win the 2 next games against Bologna and Lazio, which are among our direct competitors for 4th place, I don’t see him finishing this season.
If he was to be sacked, I would say the best moment would be after the game against Como, since we’ll be getting 2 weeks before the next serie A game. Although the issue is that that same game would be in Diego Maradona, but I think we would have lost it either way. It’s not that I think it matters at this point or that it’s going to change anything.
Yep that’s my feeling too
This isn’t on Conceicao. Or Fonseca. This is just a poorly assembled team with confused players and the individual errors they commit is probably a side effect of that.
Players with purely defined positions, especially with addition of Felix. Players that have been brought in then shown the door 6mos later. It’s just a mess all around.
You have to put this solely at the feet of management. And now they are talking about a reboot??? With this management? I would not trust these guys to sell life vests on Titanic.
For Milan to succeed, there have to be changes made at the organizational level. Proper, experienced, competent technical director, and sporting director are needed. Otherwise, these jokers will make the same mistakes again and stall our club even further.
yet is was almost the same team pioli had and was able to get 3rd, 2nd, semifinals CL. Just say it, you hate the owners. your argument lacks substances.
Thank you, that’s what i was writing on another post earlier today where topic was “who to sell”/or starting a new cycle.
Amazon should have done “All or Nothing” with Milan, wow
Well said, mate. The results have nothing to do with the coaches. For once, we have a coach who is pushing the players hard. It may take a little while, but, with Conceicao, things will improve. Mike makes wonderful saves, then, goes on to make these niggling mistakes that cost the team; Fofana is not a proper defensive midfielder, and it’s affecting the team as well; our midfielders can’t seem to create chances for the strikers; and we fluff a lot of good chances. The coach is not going to come onto the pitch to do this for the players. We score a goal, and keep sending the ball to our goalie. Our players have to change their mindset. No matter who you bring in, as long as some players are not ready to adjust, we will keep having the same issues. I watched Como vs Napoli, and noticed how Streffeza, Nico Paz and Diao were supporting the defense. It’s like at Milan the coach has to shout for some players to know what to do. And, yet, they are among the best paid in the league.
“The coach is not going to come onto the pitch to do this for the players.”
Well… To be brutally honest, Conceicao would be more useful on the pitch than certain individuals doing their individual things during the matches.
Theo has been overplayed for 3 seasons. He is drained mentally and morally as well. Hasn’t had a decent backup. He saw the people who brought him here and players he won with all leave without being replaced.
We needed a Gimenez 2 or three seasons ago to transition from Giroud.
These players saw that our squad hasn’t been reinforced or maintained. Sure things were substituted by cheap liabilities. 3rd string players became starters to save money.
Salary increases to keep our scudetto team and adding 3 players would have cost less to end up rebuilding an entire squad.
Agree, I’m curious about how Theo would perform with a decent backup?
The addition of Felix and using him as a starter is the most confusing and frustrating thing.
All it’s done is take Reijnders out of his best position – one of our two most consistently productive players – and replace him with someone not as good only to move TR deeper where he’s not as effective.
Bring Felix on at the hour mark if we need a spark, no problem. But literally he’s not in our best 11.
This is an excellent observation, I agree 100%. We needed a defensive midfielder when Bennacer left and got another Reinders! And both in the same position confuse each other and Gimenez does not receive any good pass.
In addition, Fofana is a mediocre player and made many mistakes. We paid a lot of money for mediocre players, like him and Emerson Royal. We could have save the money and kept Pobega and Kalulu who were better, or at least fought!
Anyway, we do not deserve the 4th place, Juventus is better than us. I feel sorry for both Fonseca and Conceicao, when their stars, like Theo, Leao and even Mike have been so bad this season.
I wish Gery sells the team to some rich Arab, or Chinese and the current management disappears as well!
Cardinale should sell the club to someone who knows a thing or two about football
Even defaulting on the loan would be fine. Elliot actually did a good job before these clowns.
I agree. It’s like trying for a new fancy paint job on a house whose foundation has gone rotten. Might look good when the paint drys but it isn’t a viable house for living. We could have the best players in the world in all 11 positions and they’ll play like a mid table team until we restore the culture and vision.
Agree
Ibrahimovic was right:
Cardinale hired best employees in Milan.
Just, I would add that altogether they are not so smart.
The best employees to do what? Not to run a football team! Furlani is doing his job well. The others are not.
One can only hope.
Yes Acmilan should never and ever blame Sergio conceicao the problem is from Pioli that bought wrong players and this players are confused and have created a side effect for the teams I still support Fonseca and conceicao yes. What Acmilan need is a complete revolution we need to sell the first eleven used by Pioli then we get a Quality players for Sergio conceicao is not easy the way the management think but we must do is to do this revolution thank you.
Man, what are you talking about? There is only 5 players left from Pioli’s team and half of them are in & out of the starting 11
What are you talking about? Do you have short memory or what? He is talking about first season of Moncada and Furlani (Last season) where Pioli is the coach
I had my mind on the Scudetto-team. But OK then, last season: Yunus Musah, Chukwueze
Christian Pulisic, Reijnders, RLC, Okafor (on loan now). I bet you still want to keep Pulisic and Reijnders at least?
Conceição is a good coach and with a full summer, with purchase of players that fit his style of football while getting rid off players that are too lazy or have too of a low football IQ to fit any system he could still be a successful coach at Milan. It’s not like there are better coaches available anyway.
It’s not his fault, just like it wasn’t Fonseca’s fault that so-called top players make mistakes that 10 year olds don’t make. Just look at the last few games.
Vs 6 was Gabbia and Musah individual mistake or stupidity that cost Milan.
Vs Feyenord on the road it was Maignan mistake.
Vs Feyenord at home it was Theo’s stupidity turn.
Vs Torino Maignan again and Thiaw, plus Pulisic misses a penalty.
People were attacking Fonseca after the Fiorentina loss even though Milan missed 2 penalties and turnstile Tomori gifted Fiorentina the winning goal.
To be fair with Conceição Milan have actually played better the last few weeks.
We constantly read the same stale comment about Milan needing a 6. The problem at Milan isn’t the defense but the offense. Milan have the 4th best defense in serie A with only 5 more goals given up than the best defense in the league Napoli and Juventus. Prior to the Torino game Milan and Inter had given up 24 goals each while inter have scored 22 more goals than Milan. What is a defensive midfielder going to do to fix that problem.
Milan is losing points because of individual mistakes that has nothing to do with tactics or squad being unbalanced.
The squad became unbalanced vs Dinamo after Musah got a red, same vs Feyenord.
What does the squad has to do when Maignan instead of waiting in the penalty area for the ball to drop in his hands runs out and shoots it straight in Thiaw?
In the game vs Feyenord and Torino it was Maignan stupidity that changed the games. And he is supposedly top 5 GKer in the world.
These players cannot continue to hide behind fans, coaches, management, ownership or whatever other excuses people want to use to deflect blame. And Milan isn’t losing games because of the players most have chosen to blame for everything, the Krunic, the Calabria, Emerson, Pobega, Jovic, nah, you losing games because of Theo, Maignan, Leao being lazy and trash. Losing games because of your “superstars”
Speaking of Leao,
Alexis Saelemaekers just scored his 5th serie A goal this season for Roma. Same amount of goals as the best player in the league Rafa Leao in half of games played, and he has 3 less assists than the best player in the league.
Management sent the wrong winger on loan, a winger that Fonseca desperately wanted to keep.
BUT BUT BUT LEAO WAS SERIE A MVP! SCUDETTO CHAMPION! INFALLIBLE! /s
Yes, big mistake. 6 goals in 110+ matches for Milan. Theo how many? Reijnders that came just 2 years ago? Won’t even mention Pulisic or Leao. Saelemaekers is a good player, but you are a 100% clown.
“Alexis Saelemaekers just scored his 5th serie A goal this season for Roma. Same amount of goals as the best player in the league Rafa Leao in half of games played”
WOW!!! I’m speechless. Just… Wow… Saelemaekers?!!! I want to see the Leao-lovers to turn this upside down and how Leao is still the GOAT. SAELEFREEKINMAEKERS!!!! 😀 😀 😀
“Vs 6 was Gabbia and Musah individual mistake or stupidity that cost Milan.
Vs Feyenord on the road it was Maignan mistake.
Vs Feyenord at home it was Theo’s stupidity turn.
Vs Torino Maignan again and Thiaw, plus Pulisic misses a penalty.”
Exactly. What can Conceição do if Gabbia gifts a goal to the opponents then Musah engages in two ridiculous yellow cards and is sent off?
What can Conceição do if Mike Maignan eats a howler which directly causes the team to lose?
What can Conceição do if Theo commits a silly foul for a yellow then scandalously dives for a deserved second yellow, entirely compromising a game when the team was actually playing well and dominating?
What can Conceição do if Mike Maignan makes another huge mistake gifting a goal to the opponents and then Thiaw and Fofana fall asleep while the opponents take a rapid free kick and score another goal? (Not to forget, their goalkeeper had the game of his life).
Conceição can’t go into the pitch and play the balls for the players and make saves for our goalkeeper, and he can’t make the opponents’ goalkeeper miss.
Without these numerous brain farts (and bad luck when facing an inspired goalkeeper) which the coach has nothing to do with, we’d still be in Europe and would be at a better place for 4th in the league, and people would be praising Conceição rather than asking for his head.
This is a poorly constructed team with players that don’t fit together. Most of our players, with some exceptions, are at least decent and some are even good, but they’ve been hired by incompetent managers who never had a clear strategy of building a real team with good depth in essential positions. Instead we hired a clown like Emerson, never had a deputy for Theo, never hired a proper DM since Kessié left, continued to believe in a goalkeeper who is in frank decline, and shipped out good players like Kalulu, Saelemaekers and Colombo (instead of keeping Kalulu and not hiring Emerson, and getting rid of Jovic and Chuck instead of Alexis and Lorenzo). These are just some of the managerial mistakes; there are others.
It’s very hard for a coach to step into this mess mid-season and expect that magically, results will happen.
Theo needs to go. Mike needs to go. And even though I’ve defended him many times, I’m even having doubts about Rafa although I still think that of the three, he is the one who is still able to be rescued, especially if he’s used as a super sub and comes in for second halves when defenders are more tired and his bursts of speed can be more decisive. He hasn’t contributed much as a starter lately, but has had decisive goals and assists when coming late as a super sub. With warts and all, he still has had 16 goal participations this season (goas + assists) which is not negligible. I think Rafa is not the main problem although yes, I do see his shortcomings and even I am starting to get tired of him.
The one thing I blame the coach for, is his over-reliance on João Félix. I think João is mostly flashy but ineffective and has hindered Reijnders’ play. Conceição however seems to have a blind spot for Félix. The team did get better when he finally subbed him out last game, bringing in Sottil who was way more effective than Félix and deserves more playing time.
Anyway, firing Conceição now and bringing ANOTHER coach is not going to save our season.
Bc he’s the coach and therefore, the leader of this team. It’s his job to get the players ready for the match. If only one of those occurances happened then you could excuse it but this any proves they aren’t wound up so tight they can’t breath. That’s on the coach, not the players. He’s the leader, it’s on him. These people aren’t robots or characters in a video game, they need taking care of. Sometimes that means the stick and sometimes the carrot but you have to find what motivates each player and lean into it. Ancolotti knows how to do this and he’s won more than any one. Maybe changing the coach again won’t get us into 2nd place but it’ll prevent further damage to these players psychy and prevent injuries. You can see that puli is being run into the ground and the stress isn’t helping.
Agree wholeheartedly
I’m not letting Conceicao off the hook that easy. It’s his “style of play” that has led to so many of our players getting sent off. Just look at the amount of cards this team picks up since he took over. He has clearly directed the players to constantly grab the opposing players with 2 hands because they do it all the time now and they never did before.
And he doesn’t really have a problem with diving either because his favorite player Felix does it more than anyone. Did you see his Porto teams? This is what they did. Constantly fouling and grabbing, and then players diving and acting trying to draw fouls constantly. It’s ugly football. Not enjoyable to watch even when winning.
And I really don’t want to bring in a bunch of “his style” players in the summer. If i wanted to see players constantly grabbing and diving I would go watch the Portuguese League.
Yeah the problem is it’s likely a tactic for league play where two yellows just isn’t a thing refs are willing to do (especially in the first half or unless their is a brutal foul). but turning it off for champions league games likely isn’t the easiest thing to do.
I know many won’t agree but I see this Milan team showing early signs of returning. Similar to Pioli when we got hammered 5 nil by Atalanta. There’s something there and I’d be for him to stay next season. Get rid of Theo or Leao. One of them is poison and my moneys on Theo
Keep Theo. Leao workrate is damaging to the team as a winger
I’m certain the Theo would return to his level if he played with a winger who worked for the team instead of smelling flowers while the others defend.
Saelemaekers has scored a stunner for Roma tonight.
Gasperini will be available in the summer! They should grab him asap before Roma or maybe Lazio Grab him
Yep. I’d go all in for Gasp – even if I hated the guy. He’d be the best one available.
I have made my stance on this clear and it is everyone from management to backroom staff including the coach to leave.
Ibrahimovic – A good forward in is time but a Directors role requires exceptional qualities.
Furlani – Not suited to football so best get a job as a bank cashier
Scarloni – A very good time to retire and about time as well.
Gerry – You have won nothing as a President and things are getting worse by the day so best cash in on your investment.
Moncada – A good scout under Maldini but been a failure since.
We Are Manchester United from Italy
Conceicao’s gotta go. He has not improved the team, the more time that passes, the wors ether are getting. So many players ruined under this coach, fofana, pulisic, maignan all unrecognizable. This team needs an Italian coach. Allegri would get results
This club is done and that thanks to RedTurd 👏
Banter era is coming
Max Allegri is the name
But if Conciencao is sacked, why not also sack the clowns who chose him?
Beppe Marotta on Inter’s transfer strategy: ‘We’re not talking about a revolution’
He continued: “We’ve placed important pieces down over the last few years. The first thing was to create a solid core of Italians and we have succeeded. Then, go in search of those ‘professionals’, or ‘experts’ who were able to contribute with quality and experience. We planned for the future, Ausilio and his team are monitoring every situation.
“Despite the criticism, which we have to accept, keeping almost the entire staff at the beginning of the season was a sign of a job well done, especially if it means maintaining a winning team.
“Our reference model will be slightly modified, as the club’s philosophy is to return to making investments in young profiles who guarantee capital assets, and who can contribute to this team.”
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That is a strategy and until Cardinale understands the importance of having Italians in the first team squad and giving players from the Primavera and Futuro a chance, nothing will change. We’ll become the Chelsea of Serie A, throwing money at randoms no one has heard of and hiring and firing coaches. I put most of the blame on Moncada. He’s an experience scout, but blinded by his dislike of Italians. We need an Italian in charge.
Agree
Not smart to sack him while we are atill in Coppa Italia and we still have a chance tk reach top 5. Coppa italia needs to be a priority at this point. That will secure at least Europa League and that can be our floor if all goes sideways in the league (which, tbh i dont see us beating napoli, lazio, or bologna)
Top 5 won’t be enough. With Milan, Atalanta and Juventus eliminated from Europe, Spain will get the 5th spot. They are already ahead of Italy and we don’t have enough teams left in Europe to reverse the situation.
We need top 4 and Inter, Napoli and Atalanta are out of reach. So it’s a competition for 4th involving Juve, Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Bologna. Frankly I very much doubt that of these 5, we will be the ones prevailing. Juve will be particularly tough to dislodge, and we don’t play them any longer this season for a chance at directly taking down a competitor for 4th. I see the competitors actually more consistent, more resilient, and better organized than we are, so I expect us to lose games to them, sealing our fate of not making top 4.
You forgot Roma who have managed win after win consistently and now are a threat too.
Don’t send a message to the players that this mess is another coach’s fault, or management.
It’s the players’ fault. We had 30 opportunities around the goal and didn’t score. That was Mike’s mistake giving away goals. That is Theo getting a dye job from his woman before champions league. Zero focus on his job. acting up getting cards. Pulisic missing a PK.
Don’t let these players off the hook to blame their performances on another coach
Ever since the new coach arrived he has been making stupid decisions in terms of his substitution. A change of approach is needed and asap before it is too late.
Milan weaknesses stems from wrong formation with the set of players.
4231 required very strong commitment from the 2 wingers and 2 defensive midfield to run opposing teams riot.
Leao workrate is 50%
2 defensive midfield are not playing to 7 points regularly.
MILAN is constantly exploited by smart n fast teams. Our UCL loss demonstrated all these weaknesses in full.
#IbrahimovichOut
#ConceicaoOut
Looks like a desperate move from the owner if this news were real, but even Klopp wont save this team to get the 4th position.