Stefano Pioli’s time as the head coach of AC Milan could well be coming to an end, and Carlo Pellegatti has urged Gerry Cardinale to reach out to Pep Guardiola about replacing him.
Given that Pioli’s future continues to be the subject of speculation, there have been a number of different options suggested as long-term replacements. Several sources believe Thiago Motta is being evaluated while Antonio Conte, Raffaele Palladino and Francesco Farioli have been mentioned.
The Spaniard has a CV which speaks for itself. After winning 14 trophies with Barcelona as head coach and seven with Bayern Munich, he went to Manchester City in 2016. He won a domestic treble in 2018–19 and a full treble last season, for a total of 16 trophies.
Pellegatti has an even better solution, even if it is somewhat of a dream: to try for Pep Guardiola who is the current manager of Manchester City. he talked about it in the video published on his official channel on YouTube, with his comments relayed by PianetaMilan.
“Yesterday, Guardiola, on the eve of the match against Everton, said a surprise phrase. His contract expires in 2025, but he said: ‘I think the work is finished here’. Some thought he could leave Manchester City after the Champions League against Inter, but he wanted to win the Club World Cup first,” Pellegatti began.
“I’m dreaming, I’m imagining what happened in the past. In the Milan of Silvio Berlusconi and Adriano Galliani it happened. When Galliani, a man of great intuitions, understood that the relationship of the various Rivaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Ronaldinho and Mario Balotelli with the their club was now broken, the phone call went out. In 2010, when I asked him to try for Ibra, he told me ‘Let’s try’.
“These intuitions of his have always been successful. Carlos Tévez ‘s would have been successful too, before the phone call came that stopped everything. Today, after Manchester City’s victory, Galliani would have phoned and probed the ground for Guardiola.
“I want to dream, I delude myself. I invite the Milan managers, or rather Gerry Cardinale, to consider the hypothesis of Guardiola at Milan. You will tell me ‘you’re crazy, he costs 22 million’. But I reply: next year we take a striker and we get Guardiola as coach. We’ll leave the rest the same.
“Do you want great players? We’re starting to understand if he might be interested in coaching Milan. Not pizza and figs, Milan. The second most decorated team in the world in the Champions League. He could still go to England, to PSG, to Saudi Arabia.
“But do you think he could return to Italy, where he has friends in Brescia? He could be fascinated and have fun, he is fighting with Alex Ferguson to be the coach who has won the most in history.
“He could be Carlo Ancelotti’s heir, he could coach the team that belonged to Paolo Maldini, to whom he dedicated the Champions League victory in 2009. I would say to Gerry Cardinale: ‘Think to this possibility. He is sensitive to entertainment, to the international image as well as to sporting victory’.”
“A very high investment, but we are within the budget: the usual 50 million euros with Guardiola and a great striker. If Cardinale thinks about it and tests the waters, think of the emotional drive of the fans.
“The season tickets, the enthusiasm, the desire to return as a protagonist with one of the greatest coaches in history with our Arrigo Sacchi, Fabio Capello, Ancelotti himself.
“A phone call, a survey. I hope that Cardinale thinks about what Guardiola could bring in terms of sponsors, merchandising, income, 22 million is nothing. But you have to have the desire and strength to believe in it. I hope that someone recommends him to Gerry: it would give a boost to coat of arms of Milan.”
Why pay crazy amount for player when you can oay for a coach that will chage everything.
Another one to consider is Bielsa or De Zerbi
These other names don’t seem like an upgrade from Pioli to me
Exactly, I never understood how is paying Guardiola 20M expensive, but paying Guyirassi or whatever his name is – 5M per season is not expensive. Just compare what can that guy do for the 5M and what can Guardiola do for the club for 20M. Guardiola is worth 200M realistically, and it would be worth it financially, just because of the added value that will come to the team, brand etc. especially because of his style of football and titles…
Agrees 100%, ROI for Guardiola is Messi level, not sure when the clubs will realize that once and for all.
Has someone actually asked Ancelotti of he wants to come back?
Probably not, he’s won everything everywhere. I’d say he’s off to international management to win a world cup.
because a 20m salary is actually 36m in payments to him EVERY YEAR you donut, did you fail basic accounting and dont know how taxes work? wtf
I am glad you understand the accounting but most of fhe time bean counters dont make decisions for a reason. 20M is 20M with or without taxes, he is worth any money
these 10 year old kids think they know everything lmao.
If you are older than that than you should be ashamed to be so illiterate
@Boulden Even if what he said is wrong, he doesn’t need guidance from you. You are so pathetic man, I pity your partner who has to deal with your tantrums.
Exactly.
Look at what Pioli did when he took over and that was Pioli.
We’ll struggle to get a star coach midsession though so for many reasons, including the success of the current manager and team, let’s hope we qualify for the champions league again, and for a run in the cups, and then Pioli can hand the reins to another coach in the summer.
We are still in third. Still in EL. With Italy’s coefficient, arguably there will be 5 entries into CL next season.
With a half-a** broken & injury plagued team we are STILL in third. once injured players start making comebacks we should be solid for next year’s CL.
I wouldn’t cut Pioli loose until the summer. Look at Napoli and Mazzari….
Pep is not going to want a team with a capped budget
True. He doesn’t work like that. People also attack Conte for the same thing, for leaving when he got restrictions. Guardiola would have done the same.
I dunno. Sometimes I think it’s too easy being a “great coach” when you only work within the top 5 clubs in Europe and can just go and buy a 150m player whenever you want one. Even Mourinho has the balls to go to a club like Roma and try to make something happen within their limitations. Ancelotti tried Everton and Napoli (indeed with mixed results, but he tried). Pep will have coached Barca, Bayern, and City. Where will he go next? The options are really slim because there are few clubs outside that group that can offer him the budgets he requires. There is only PSG, Madrid (which he will probably refuse for obvious reasons) and that’s basically it. I bet he goes to PSG, the Spanish national team and then retires, or just retires, after City. Maybe Saudi Arabia for paid vacation before retiring.
So you actually know Pep? I would argue he wants a challenge and he clearly stated je wants to coach in Italy, after all we are talking about Milan here, you need to bow when you mention the name.
If you look at the stats we have also forked quite some money in the last 5-6 years, the rest will Guardiola do.
I see Ibra as a bigger problem then the budget, cant have the two in the same room
Well he can go to Juventus or Inter. He doesn’t need to work with 20M players. Juventus buys Chiesa, Vlahovic etc, for the money that is asked. Milan is getting 20M players. When did Guardiola want to work in a team like that? I’m sure he can find a better challenge that what the current policy of Milan is. If it changes it is a different story, but Gandalf is right…
Juventus is also broke and requires constant capital increases and cheating. Which brings another question, how can they constantly inject capital into the club? My understanding of FFP is that this is not permitted and that clubs need to be “self-sufficient”. Inter is also in deep financial problems.
Yes the guy who needs to trial and error 1 billion worth of players to perform.
Remember before his current success at City he went through like 400m in defense alone, now he finally has a base so they dont spend as much but fanboys online will tell you he can magically transform everything forgetting what he initially did sigh.
Yes, you obviously do not understand football. The amount of stupidity in this post. How much did other Premier League coaches spend and how many titles have they won since Guardiola is in England? You’re really a clown haha
I have another one, which coach won 5 titles in a row in England? In history?
SIR Alex must have, I think. Anyway, just ignore Boulden he gets special treatment from the Admins, you might get timed out.
I think he is to be ignored based on his replies with or without special treatment.
I will also do the same treat him special from now one 😉
aw the 10 year old kid is still throwing tantrums and dont know how to type properly without swearing
dont worry one day you will grow up
@Boulden Someone quarantine this piglet before his disease spreads. Keyboard warriors who get triggered by everything.
SAF didn’t manage five in a row, but he did manage eight in 11 seasons, which is still insane. Football was also different back then, nowhere near as much money in it. Don’t forget SAF won a couple of titles near the end of his career with a Utd that was a shadow of it’s 90s version in a league with a free spending Chelsea and a rising City. I daresay SAF’s overall accomplishments are greater than Pep’s at this point, but this can change quickly if Pep wins another couple on the trot.
@Doki “Anyway, just ignore Boulden he gets special treatment from the Admins, you might get timed out.”
Bro I swore I got the time out treatment yesterday lol wtf 😂 after all I see in the comments section. It was the oddest thing . I repeated what was said in an article twice. Both posts got deleted 🤷♂️
Just see how much Man U have forked out and they still are not comparable, or Chelsea
A phone call back then vs now is a different thing. Plus Pep demands a huge transfer budget for his type.of player
Pep won’t join Milan man, just leave it at that.
Klopp would be a possibility though, he can work with limited budget and might want to join if the project is good.
Support your own. Effing dreamers. It’s why y’all are unhappy; you set yourselves up for misery and disappointment.
Anyone know if Pellegatti has early (arguably) onset of dementia…? Is he still alert and oriented?
Otherwise this makes zero sense…
This guy talks about Galliani and Berlusconi probing Guardiola, but if you look at the history of coaches hired by Milan under those 2 , they always hired unproven coaches.
Sacchi was in serie B,
Capello from the Primavera.
You could say Ancelotti was somewhat proven coach because he coached at Juventus for 2 years but he was fired after 2 seasons without a trophy, and was about to go back to Parma before Milan snatched him.
Faith Terim.
Zaccheroni from Udinese.
Leonardo never been a coach before.
Allegri from Cagliari. Inzaghi, Mihajlovic, Brocchi, Montella.
Milan always had up and coming coach, never a big proven name under Berlusconi and Galliani
Great observation. I think the reason clearly is: because they were cheap.
Exactly and a big part of that was because Berlusconi wanted to feel like he was in charge of the club.
It was (at least up until Seedorf) and relatively successful strategy, and we should also remember that’s how Guardiola started out at Barca.
It’s tricky. I believe a coach basically makes all the difference. There’s too many examples of teams being transformed over night:
– Chelsea went from 1st to 10th to 1st again in three seasons between Mourinho and Conte after the former lost the dressing room;
– Man Utd went from 1st to 7th after Ferguson’s last season and have never recovered from losing Ferguson.
– Conte took Juve from 7th to an unbeaten 1st.
– look at Napoli last season and this,
and of course Pioli ended Milan’s downward spiral that started with Seedorf (nothing against the guy who actually did ok but he wasn’t a qualified coach!).
The coach is the single most important person at the club. We absolutely need to get it right.
If we do sack Pioli before the end of the season then I think we bring in experience to try and secure a champions league spot.
If we can get to the end of the season then maybe we can take a punt and we’ll have time to recover if it doesn’t work.
What experience? What coach are you bringing in to take this team halfway into a season with players he didn’t select?
I’m talking about a scenario when we fall out of the top 4.
And if we did sack him we’d need to bring in another Pioli whoever that is!
It’s not my job to find a replacement. Unless you want to pay me?
It’s not unreasonable. Pep has dominated Spain, england, and Germany, maybe his goal is a 4th country. To be Europe’s best coach ever. The article states it, a dream. Sometimes dreams come true. What’s the harm in a conversation?
Pep Guardiola would be a wise investment including 200m investment in the squad. We would easily make that back and more.
You have to invest money to make money. So the idea is not far fetched and it would be a brilliant move if it comes true.
NO WAY.. owner will looking for young prospect coach, cz sustainable & capital gain beyond trophy
When pigs fly Guardiola will be coaching Milan.
Even the idea that he’d come is extremely naïve. There is just no way this will happen so what’s the point in mentioning it???
This would be a dream came true. Guardiola is the best coach ever!
How old are you?
Old man selling stories to stay relevant. Or just a starting stage of dementia.
With Guardiola every quality player will want to sign for Milan.. We wont suffer to negotiate and bring top players to the club.
Only if a Middle Eastern investors buy the club
Pellegatti with the JOKE OF THE YEAR right at the buzzer! Made my day.
Milan does not need Guardiola or any other over-hyped coach out there.
Give a call to De Zerbi.
Yeah, Guardiola us certainly a point of reference, though we don’t have to overlook the fact that he is the type to spend looooooooooooot of money, cash on hundreds millions to one just 1 champions league, even his cheapest bencher cost at least 50 millions without displaying his salary.
A young coach with high prospect would be more likely to run the club.