Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti continues to be linked with the Brazil job, but AC Milan and AS Roma are not giving up hope just yet.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), the reports on social media have been making it out that Ancelotti to Brazil is a done deal, but this is not entirely the case. The Brazilian football federation are trying, but they are getting increasingly desperate to receive an answer soon.
Ancelotti likes the idea of leading Brazil, but ‘Don Carlo’ has built his immense career on a precise basis: loyalty. He has never said a wrong or unpleasant word towards an employer, even when he had a thousand reasons.
Now he doesn’t even dream of turning his back on Real Madrid, the club he loves most after Milan, where he still has 14 months left on his contract. For him, nothing has changed: when Real Madrid tells him he’s being fired, then he will decide his future.
Only then will he make a call. It is a future that could be in Brazil, or in retirement, or romantically at Roma or Milan if the two Italian clubs want and manage to touch the sentimental side of the Emilian coach. Difficult, almost impossible, but Milan and Roma could try.
Real Madrid will instead go for Xabi Alonso, who in turn – together with Bayer Leverkusen – is waiting for Florentino Perez to tell him something. The president of Madrid is the great puppeteer: he is the one who pulls the strings and manages the timing of this triangle between Spain, Brazil and Germany.
Ancelotti has no intention of promising himself to Brazil until he has been fired. Carlo is waiting for a meeting with Perez that hasn’t arrived yet. Maybe it will this week, but that’s not certain. In the meantime he can listen to what Brazil say but he will not sign something.
The idea is that only after the LaLiga season ends on May 25 will he consider other avenues, and until then it will only be Real. At that point Brazil will have already made the call-ups for the next internationals, and it will be up the Seleçâo whether to switch targets or go for an interim.
Ancelotti or no one else
In modern football it’s less about good or bad coaches and more about right and wrong coaches.
Ancelotti was the right guy at Real because he is good at man management and can handle big stars. He’s won it all, people respect him. His son gave him some tactical input but mostly Real relied on the talent of their players and experience and grit of players like Modric and Kroos.
Is this the right profile for Milan? No in my opinion.
This!
He can do it at established teams like Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea. I mean, he was never a success at Everton
I don’t think the Everton comparison is relevant whatsoever. The talent gap between Everton and the top level teams of the EPL is vast. Milan already have a top 3-4 roster in Serie A talent wise.
Talent isn’t the issue at Milan, it’s incompetent management.
And he still got them to finish top 10 the only full year in charge I think, which is better that they’re used to lately. Pep isn’t doing any better than that either.
Very astute
That is exactly what this squad needs.
If a coach can manage and motivate the big names in the squad (Theo, Leao etc.) this team can do great things.
The talent is there, as we saw on a few occasions this season (against Inter, Real for example), but the mentality is missing.
I have my doubts about Ancelotti to Milan at this time. If it’s gonna happen, a lot has to change
We don’t need anceloti this grandpa doesn’t have tactics