With AC Milan’s start to the season, the talk of a managerial departure is rife, and it could happen as early as this weekend. If Paulo Fonseca does depart, Giancarlo Padovan has suggested that Zlatan Ibrahimovic should also leave.
Fonseca never imagined the Milan job would be easy, but he probably did not expect it to be as difficult as it has been. Only winning one game in his first five competitive fixtures as the head coach is woeful, and there is only one chance at survival.
To keep his job, Fonseca must beat Inter in the Derby della Madonnina on Sunday night, but there have been suggestions that this may not even be enough for him to keep his job with the game being seen as a potential postponement rather than safety.
Taking stock of the situation, Padovan commented on Fonseca’s job when speaking to Milan News also claiming Ibra should depart if the Portuguese coach leaves.
Even in the managerial role, Ibrahimovic does not give up the character…
“Ibrahimovic still believes he is a player and will remain one. It is yet another demonstration that you don’t become a manager or a coach just because you have been a footballer. They are different professions, different systems, different culture.
If anything, Ibrahimovic has neither sporting nor footballing culture. He has that of the locker room, which is the receptacle of all conformism, the place where hazing reigns, where whoever speaks the loudest or plays the loudest music reigns,” he said.
A receptacle, strangely and unjustly elevated to a football shrine where anything goes. With the words used by Ibra and with his tone you go nowhere but down. Then there is Fonseca’s choice, which he claims and this is the result. And on Sunday I fear the rest will come…”
Six derbies in a row lost, you arrive in the worst possible conditions
“I don’t see how Milan can hold their own against Inter. There is a basic difference, which is that one is a team and the other is not.”
Does Fonseca still deserve the last call, with the derby?
“For me, on the Milan bench he shouldn’t even have sat, let alone been there. I fear that the picture of desolation will be the defeat in the derby and then everything will be inevitable. Thinking of a Fonseca still on the Milan bench seems risky to me.”
It would be the first certified failure of Ibrahimovic as manager…
“If Fonseca goes, Ibrahimovic should go too. The most honest people tie the coach’s fate to them, especially if it is their choice. Ibra is the one who chose not to bet on Conte who, for goodness sake, costs and demands.
“But then you find yourself in a situation where the fans at the fifth game boo you and protest. The fifth game. And it feels like the 25th game of the championship. With a disastrous season ahead.”
I agree. Ibra should leave. But that’s the consequence of sacking Paulo Maldini
Don’t forget the rest of the bunch, Furlani and the fraud Moncada. At best Cardinale might just ell the club and spare all of us from this circus.
As for the derby, Fonseca better close down and play on counters so we at least don’t get embarrassed.
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Everyone out maldini in with Saudi investors
No Saudi’s in Italy. I’m sorry that’s not our culture. They can go to England their former masters.
Yes but it can’t worse than the USA owner
What’s Italian about Milan?, seriously you seem to be delusional
Milan have a strict policy, NO ITALIANS, you must have missed the memo!!!
Oh yeah that Italian footy culture with a new scandal every other week, you need to grow up or move to one Italy’s many islands and live in complete solitude!
Lol. Nobody wants to earn their success. I want us to be like Bayern, not some BS club like City. Might as well create that Super League with 24 teams, all owned by petro states and oligarchs, cancel domestic leagues and call it a day. The irony is that it becomes the NFL of football. Let’s build, not get given handouts.
I used to think like you, but then I went to secondary school…….
Seriously the modern world and particularly modern football is about the here and now, will our mass of Champions League trophies get us through to the knockout stages of the Champions league
It does not count for anything, we haven’t brought a ‘world class player’ for nearly 2 decades…..what is your opinion on that
No Italian soul or culture at the moment. Just try to get to the next CL and start again with the right foundations: a proven sporting director, an experienced coach and an Italian core of lads. Humble guys, hardworking, not clowns
HIRE A PROPER SPORTING DIRECTOR!!!
Enough with ex players that have zero managerial experience.
If you don’t want to pay to get Sartori from Bologna, Igli Tare is free the last time I checked. He fits the parameters of the ownership. He did very good job at Lazio working with very little money.
For Padovan saying that Zlatan should leave too. Zlatan should stick to just promoting the Milan brand.
Also, I wander if all these people in the media, including Boban, were saying that management should be fired along with the mistake coach they hired in 2019 too, or they all choose to have amnesia, just like Boban did?
Not only did Boban, Paolo and Massara hired Giampaolo, who was a bad coach, but they also hired Pioli, who wasn’t batter that him either until a catastrophic world event stopped serie A for 3 months and saved his and managements jobs.
Let’s reminisce a little bit.
Giampaolo was fired after 7 games with Milan having only 9 points.
Prior to the serie A stoppage after week 26, with Pioli in charge, Milan had only 36 points from 26 games. 27 points from 19 games under Pioli. Not much of an improvement, including the infamous 5:0 drubbing by Atalanta, and Gasperini dancing on the sidelines.
A new coach needs time.
Were you calling for the incompetent football people to be fired then or you were quiet because it was Paolo?
Zlatan should not be making any football decisions just like Paolo shouldn’t have.
Hire a proper sporting director and move out of his way.
First of all the team of that time was not as good as this current one if we look at each players, less money was invested, lower wage cap and under Pioli for the following two years after that infamous Atalanta match had some of the best points pr. match in the history of the club so what you are trying to sell here is not really matching fully up with reality.
I will nevertheless give you that new coaches overall needs enough time to prove themselves but at least up until now it has been far from impressive. I rarely demands heads to roll but I’m certainly not far from it at this point but I will at least give them a few more matches to turn things around but that goes both for the coach, management and players as the responsibility lays on all of their shoulders.
The team that Milan had in 2018/19 finished 1 point from 3rd place while being coached by Gattuso.
Boban and his buddies spent almost 100 mil that summer, Milan this summer spent only 72m.
If you go player by player Milan had similar squad back then, with even a better midfield that included Kessie, Hakan, Paqueta, Bonaventura, none of them signed by Boban, Maldini and Massara. Maldini and Massara left Milan with midfield of Bennacer, Krunic, Tonali, Pobega and Adli.
Giampaolo had a whole summer with all the players available to him, while Fonseca was without his best players for most of the summer because of the Euro and Copa America.
Pioli had good point per game percentage after the league stopped for 3 months, not after the Atalanta game. The Atalanta game was in week 17 a day or 2 before Christmas, league shut down at the beginning of March, 10 games later.
If covid didn’t happen, Ragnick was going to be Milan’s new coach and director. Have we forgotten why Boban, who can’t keep a job, was fired? He was fired because he ran his mouth to a newspaper that Gazidis is trying to hire Ragnick and fire them all because of how bad Milan was.
I am not trying to sell anything, I just bring out facts from the past.
Must be mixing up a season then because i certainly wasn’t refering to Gattusos season. Kessie and hakan bought under chinese ownership,Bonaventure berlusconi era. Paqueta under Leonardo + a bunch of duds.
Ill give you that in regard of Giampaolo that he had more time and as I’ve also said I’m still willing to give Fonseca few more matches as well at least if we show some improvement.
Its speculation whether we wouldn’t have done as well without the covid pandemic but even when the players said otherwise i can accept that argument as we had a pretty young and inexperienced squad who played under less pressure so who knows but for the following two years we did nevertheless have some of the best points pr match ratio in the history of the club.
I do remember why Boban was sacked and im sure its basically the same reason why Maldini was sacked as well as he was interviewed directly after our cl semi final exit asking for more investments to take the next leap.
Martin mate, let’s be honest, we all expected Fonseca to fail, we would have been in total shock had he been successful, time is not the issue, competency is and can you really tell me we will win trophies under Fonseca!
Sergio C or Sarri short term, you can see Milan winning with them, your mind can actually imagine it
Pioli must be laughing his bald head off, counting his millions and smoking his hookah pipe, he who laughs last …..
Agree 100%.
No the Problem is Furlani and the bad Decesion Greenlight from the owner who approves the bad sigming of Motata Emerson Royal and Abrah amd Fonsaeca ,and Allowing to bench Chekuesa and not lining up Liberali ,Bacone,Camarda or Chrmenes