Despite another win in the Champions League, Paulo Fonseca is not safe in his job at AC Milan, according to suggestions this morning.
Unless things drastically change between now and May, this will be a season to forget for Milan. In the Scudetto they are already lagging behind, and a 10-point gap will not be lessened with ease, especially considering five other teams have a head-start on that gap.
With that gap also comes concerns about the Champions League. Nine points currently separate the Rossoneri and the spots for Europe’s premier competition, again, another gap that will not be shortened easily.
The one bright spark in it all is this season’s Champions League, where the Diavolo find themselves in a good position to at least qualify for the play-off phase of the competition, although they would like to push for the top eight.
However, reports have already suggested that European football may not be the saviour for the coach, and Gazzetta dello Sport has written that a ‘change in the bench might not be a hypothesis to exclude’.
It seems the favoured choices would be Massimiliano Allegri or Maurizio Sarri, Igor Tudor also remains in the picture with Zlatan Ibrahimovic reportedly a fan.
Stop with experimental coaches…
we could have gotten Ammorin, DeZerbi, Tuchel… now we have Allegri who can only play one of the most boring type of football, Sarri which is more of a miss than a hit after his Chelsea time, and never let Ibra pick a coach if he actually thinks Tudor can handle this job…
Only normal one left is Conceicao and maybe Xavi, who actually knows how to integrate young players
Allegri is boring but at least he is consistent. In fact so far, despite an improved squad Motta’s juve doesn’t seem better tham his. He is not my first choice’s coach, not even my nth actually, but he isn’t as bad as some people think of thim, plus his counterattacking/parking the bus style suits our players better than whatever possession we’re trying to play.
For me, perhaps the best choice availabe right now is Conceição.
Tudor is a great coach..
Figures you’d write something unintelligible as this whole post.
Until the new year, our Ancelotti will be free.
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Top 8 isn’t impossible at all in cl. We only have ”easy” games left. While other teams have far harder matches left. Monaco for example in 8th now have three really hard games left.
But yeah many teams are competing for those eight spots. We definately need three wins to have a chance.
Correct.
In the next three matchdays, a bunch of the current “Top 8” will have to play each other. Arsenal v Monaco, Inter v Monaco, Inter v Leverkusen, Barcelona v Dortmund, Barcelona v Atalanta. And then you have games of teams that need to make up points (like Atalanta v Real Madrid).
Plenty of points up top will be dropped. With Milan’s three opponents, we could well find ourselves comfortably in the top 8 by match week 7.
FFS… You have to be a GOOD coach to come in and implement a style of play that works with the PLAYERS you have.
Fonseca-type coaches try to come in and implement their own style regardless whether it fits the players or not. Then failing, yet continuing to insist on it. Pioli did the same thing, and it only worked for one season.
A good coach comes in, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the players than implements a blueprint that FITS.
What fits Milan is a three man midfield and a counterattacking style of play.
(That wasn’t meant to be a reply. Sorry. )
“A good coach comes in, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the players than implements a blueprint that FITS. ”
So what we need is Ancelotti
Amorim and De Zerbi are very much experimental coaches. Fonseca has won more than both of them. They fall in the same bracket as Fonseca and Conceicao. Allegri is an established coach, with proper credentials along with Sarri. There’s nothing to suggest that Amorim or De Zerbi would do better in Serie A than Fonseca
Best Point Fonseca is not bad the management took the risk because he has potential but maybe Milan is too big for him or he will get him game right and surprise us
Sorry but this analysis is very faulty. First of all Fonseca (51) is much older than De Zerbi (45) or Amorim (39). It’s one thing to hire young coaches even if they didn’t win much, because they sometimes show potential and some excitment. Fonseca has been a coach since 2007, the same year Guardiola started coaching and yet outside of Ukraine, he only has one Supertaça and one Taça de Portugal to show off. It’s clear that he is an average coach and always will be an average coach.
Also, are you seriously comparing him to Conceição ? Conceição has won la Liga Portugal several times with Porto, as well as several Taça de Portugal and Supertaça and during his coaching years, Porto punched above its weight class even in European competitions and it actually was the first big team he coached. Amorim also, despite being so young, has already won la Liga Portugal twice with Sporting Portugal.
Conceição has always been the best choice. He is a winner and consistently made a modest roster punch over their weight at Porto over more than a decade. He collected several titles and always did well in the Champions League, much better than expected for his modest roster. And more, he was willing to come to Milan. Conceição is a very CONSISTENT winner, something that even flashier and more famous coaches can’t say.
So, of course, our horribly amateur management didn’t want him and picked the worst possible option among a long list of available good coaches: Fonseca. We are playing the price for this incredibly misguided choice.
And sure, surprisingly, Conceição is still available, which would make of him the obvious choice in case Fonseca gets sacked. Because he is by far the best choice, his chance is virtually zero, because this management will never go for the best choice. Instead, they will pick another bad option and it won’t even be an upgrade over the mediocre loser we currently have as the head coach.
I’ve been saying this for months. Unfortunately I’m not a manager at Milan, haha, so we’re stuck with Fonseca, and if replaced, it won’t be an upgrade. It will be a lateral move at best, but more likely, a downgrade; that’s how incompetent our managers are.
Some people here say Fonseca is not so bad, had wins against Inter and Real, needs more time, blah blah. Well, yeah, but it’s one good game out of six. Look at the last 6 games that included the Real victory. That stretch featured five other games in which we played horribly. Lost to Naples at home showing no ambition despite missing players; barely beat a relegation-zone Monza by the minimum score which only happened because Daniel Maldini missed several sitters; drew with lowly Cagliari while displaying arguably the worst defensive job of several years; tied again showing no ambition with an injury-devastated Juventus that couldn’t even field a striker; barely beat the very worst UCL team by one score that was gifted to us by their backpass mistake, while only keeping the 3-2 thanks to a heroic goal-line save by a center back with the goalie beaten. So we almost conceded a draw and 3 goals to a team that had zero points, had scored 2 and conceded 13. Great, just great.
One good game out of six won’t take us anywhere. The Inter and Real victories filled me with joy, of course, but ultimately they only hid the naked truth, that Fonseca is a mediocre loser.
Some people blame the players. Well, like the Napoli experience demonstrates, the same group of players can be great or horrible depending on who the head coach is. Napoli with almost the same players went from first with Spalletti to 10th with Garcia and back to first with Conte.
Our same group of players would be doing very well with a proper coach like Conceição. However, our managers don’t see it, therefore we will almost certainly miss the next UCL, which will be a huge disaster. Mark my words.