AC Milan have announced that Mauro Tassotti has returned to the club, joining Daniele Bonera as a coach with Milan Futuro.
It has been a rather hectic last few days for the Futuro, starting with the defeat to Lucchese over the weekend in a relegation battle six-pointer, which at one point seemed to be the final straw for Bonera.
Matteo Moretto of Relevo reported that he was ‘heading towards dismissal’ after the loss to Lucchese and would then go on to add that Italy U19 boss Alberto Bollini is the favourite to replace him.
However, as we reported in our update yesterday, the hierarchy seem intent on giving Bonera one more chance in the next match against Pianese and thus he has not been sacked yet.
Now, the official website have confirmed that Tassotti has joined the coaching staff working with Bonera, certainly suggesting that his position is not immediately under threat.
Following his retirement in 1997, Tassotti took up a coaching position in Milan’s youth academy and even served as a caretaker manager for the senior side in 2000-01.
He was assistant to Carlo Ancelotti from then on, working under Leonardo, Massimiliano Allegri, Clarence Seedorf and Filippo Inzaghi too. He left in 2016, concluding a 36-year career with the club.
In 2017 he took up an assistant coaching position with the Ukraine national team under Andriy Shevchenko, and was his deputy at Genoa in 2021-22 too.
Replace him. It can’t get any worse.
Bonera has had more lives than cat.
welcome home …. i have always wanted you to coach the milan first team with all the years you spent in Milan as a player and also as an assistance coach under Carlo and Allegri …. finally the management consider you to be the head coach of the Milan Futuro
He has been an interim coach for the first team for a few matches and if i remember correctly also has a perfect record but also back then openly said that he didn’t want to become coach for the first team as it suited him better being an assistant coach. Maybe in the event that Bonera is sacked maybe he would accept coaching the kids as the pressure is of a completely different matter.
another chance for bonera
Are they crazy or what
Ffs
Seems like they brought in Tassotti to really take over and try to teach Bonera lol. Just drop Bonera.
That’s a good decision, his experience will help. Would like to see him take over. He’s really underrated.