Alfredo Pedulla has once again gone in hard on Paulo Fonseca after the Fiorentina defeat, suggesting that he should be sacked given the issues that arose over who takes penalties.
The story that seems to be dominating the media headlines this morning concerns the issue of who takes penalties for Milan after Christian Pulisic was confirmed as the designated taker of spot kicks by Fonseca after the game.
That incident came during a 2-1 defeat to Fiorentina last night that has piled the pressure back on the head coach, given that Milan have now won just three of their first nine games this season across all competitions.
Pedulla spoke on his YouTube channel about the ‘anarchy’ that has erupted at Milan and what the course of action should be to correct the course of a season that could very quickly become lost again.
“Fonseca is back to his old self, worse than before, in a club where anarchy reigns and has made him increasingly weak in the eyes of the players. Milan must relieve him of his duties as soon as possible. Yesterday, too many things went wrong,” he said (via MilanWorld).
“He thinks he still has the derby amulet, but there is no game. The spark of one night is monotony in all the others. The team is the product of a wind of superstition after the derby because it went well for them once.
“Royal is unsuitable, Tomori has been unpresentable for some time, Theo is unmanageable, you can see that there is nervousness. Leao is doing a favour when he plays well.
“I hear people say: it is useless to speak badly of coaches. Fine, go ahead: but by doing so you are harming Milan. Certain journalists should take off their shirts with the crest. You cannot lose by surrendering in that way to the opponent.
“From a mood point of view, what was seen yesterday with the penalties is not seen not even in Serie D. Fonseca thinks he’s in an amateur league team when he gets angry in a press conference saying he’ll talk to the players about it.
“He’s the one who lost his grip on the situation and who should have made himself respected. Only at a sports bar do you make statements like that, a professional dressing room is something else. He
has no strength or respect.
“The club sent him out on a mission, a sort of adventure, and he himself understood it a long time ago. He should be relieved of his duties. If you don’t change with a situation like that, if you play with the calendar waiting for easy opponents to stall, it means you want mediocrity, that you haven’t understood how the team and coach have been traveling on different paths for a long time.”
Sounds more like a lesson needs to be made of the players.
At this point I personally doesn’t even care if he is sacked but then there should also be clear repercussions for those players who doesn’t behave according to expectations of professional football players because there is no guarantees it wont happen again to the next coach as well and if that means shipping out some of our star players so be it. Id much rather have a squad with players that might not be star players but who will fight and bleed for the club, each other and for the fans who indirectly pays their salaries with their hard earned money.
Instead we have a bunch of overpaid players who behaves as a bunch of toddlers in a kindergarten class and only manages to show their own egos any respect.
You can win with basically mediocre squads if it all comes together but you cant win or progress with a bunch of self serving clowns who cant think beyond their own nose tips.
Do not blame the players. The managment of the sport department and the couch are the ones who should be changed, the sooner the better. The guy who both Rojal and sold Kalulu should not do anything football related in the feauture.
Players are also accountable for their actions so surely they deserves criticism as well and if players refuse to follow orders from the coach then they aren’t acting professionally which is the bare minimum to be expected from them and even amateur players would in most cases know that as well.
Theo & Rafa are terrible leaders who think only of themselves and not the team. They have been equal parts brilliant and terrible, and the terrible is losing matches for us.
Players absolutely need to be held accountable le for their actions. If there’s no accountability there’s no respect.
Theo is sitting out either way but Tammy needs consequences. Not like he’s scoring with his eyes closed. There’s no room for error. Puli is on 7GA’s in 7 games.
Fully agree.
Well Theo can always get a hefty fine on top of that vacation.
I fell like when we win it gets blown out of proportion. Praises all around, we just won the league.. when we lose it gets blown out of proportion. No respect, no chemistry, fire him and him, sell the players, sell the club, sell cra*k etc..
Its all just so childish..
Who the f is Pedulla anyway and what has he done in football so far?
Its ‘cuz of people like him that players get frustrated when things dont go our way. And they act out. And sh*t happens.
It’s either black or white my friend.
Win and now we’re favourite for serie A, we will do well in UCL…
Lose and now the coach should be sacked.
Middle ground was never an option.
we suprised inter and won. fiora suprised milan and won. and that is all that happened.
but doom&glooming is more fun. gives us a reason to rant and vent
Well losses happens and are expected to happen from time to time but players showing lack of professionalism isn’t ok by any means and this comes from a commenter who rarely has bashed any of our players, coaches etc. but they are acting like spoiled little brats who think they are the coach themselves and by doing that they are basically losing any credibility to be so fortunate to represent the club.
Either they get their acts together and start acting like men or they can freely look for a different club and leave for what I care.
Fonseca was not my first choice, he wasn’t even my tenth choice and I still think Conceiçao is a better option (who coincidentally plays a 4-4-2 btw). There are a lot of mistakes that he did and is currently doing one of which is exposing to the media our dirty laundry and losing the locker room.
But the players have to shoulder a lot of the blame.
Theo is the captain, a top left-back in the world and a scudetto winner. This is NOT the attitude of neither. I thought he improved a bit after the international break, but here he is acting like a teenager. He should be heavily fined.
Leao is still the same primadona who contributes to 0 when he doesn’t have the ball.
Tomori seems to be regressing each season and what is the meaning to stealing the ball to give it to Abraham. He should be fined for that.
Speaking of Abraham, I complimented him a lot and wanted the deal permanent, but he has been dissapointing during the last 2 games. His finishing is poor and stealing the penalty is also inacceptable and should be fined.
Reijnders did well in the derby then it was nothingness as usual.
And of course the biggest share of the blame belongs to the management. Who think it was a great idea to bring Emerson ? Pavlovic ? Why do have no subs for either Fofana or Reijnders ? …
Sorry for the rant, but yesterday during the game I wanted to gouge my eyes at some point.
I feel your pain bro
Absolutely correct. Yes, Fonseca should be relieved of his duties, and the sooner, the better. He cannot recover from this. He has lost the locker room, commands no respect among players and fans (including former players and serious journalists) and even if he collects some good results from now on (highly doubtful) the results should not undo the damage because the way things are going, even with some good results (like the Derby win; more the exception than the rule) we are not likely to collect any trophy this season, and are also not likely to make top 4. Currently we’re 7th place, and frankly, it’s deserved. We don’t look like top 4 material, despite having some good players.
I’d favor immediately hiring Conceição who is still available, and not only is a much more competent coach than Fonseca, is also more of a disciplinarian who would control the players, and is a proven winner, always making Porto punch above their weight, having won 12 trophies in 14 seasons.
The downside is the fact that he has never coached in Serie A, but should it be the criterion? See, Fonseca has coached in Serie A before, and is a disaster. Having familiarity with Serie A should not be the primary criterion. Competence and ability to command respect from the players are much more important criteria.
Besides, Conceição has extensive experience in the UEFA Champions League, a league that is of course tougher than Serie A, and he has always made Porto perform well there, despite a modest roster.
Fire Fonseca, bring in Conceição immediately; he’d have 2 weeks to get to work before play resumes after the international break. Yes, many players will be away in national team duty but Conceição could call them, videoconference with them, present himself and his philosophy to them, and start telling them what he believes should be done to take Milan out of this hole that our amateur management and our current mediocre coach have caused.
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