After the defeat in the derby, Milan coach Stefano Pioli did not appear at the press conference at San Siro: the Rossoneri club has already decided on his possible dismissal.
In the end too Stefano Pioli seems to have surrendered to the evidence: at the end of the season he will be sacked by Milan. And the fact that, after the defeat in the derby who gave the Scudetto to Inter, did not appear at the press conferencea is the most evident confirmation of this. In his career as a coach in fact never before, not even in the most complicated moments, had he avoided meetings with journalists after a match.
At the final whistle the Emilian coach spoke to TV and radio, revealing some faint hope for a reconfirmation despite the fact that even before the defeat against Inter he had already been “publicly exonerated” by the warmest part of the Rossoneri fans and, above all, seriously questioned by the owners who had already given a mandate to Zlatan Ibrahimovic to test the waters to find a possible replacement .
But then he realized that, despite the post-derby declarations of the CEO Giorgio Furlani (“The Milan coach is Stefano Pioli, I confirm this. We are focused on finishing the season well. The people who report to Gerry Cardinale are Moncada, Ibrahimovic and me, then it is he who always makes the final decision“), its future has already been decided. The Milan management will sack him at the end of this season (one year after the expiry of his current contract) regardless of the outcome of the last five championship matches that remain to be concluded. In fact, the Rossoneri club, through Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he is already looking for the new coach who will take his place.
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An awareness that probably gave him that hint of discouragement that led him not to show up at the post-derby press conference of San Siro in which he would have found himself forced to answer inevitable questions about his situation and his immediate future by pretending that the exemption already decided is still to be decided. In fact, now Stefano Pioli has nothing left to do but concentrate on the pitch to close his cycle as Milan coach, guaranteeing qualification for the next Champions League (already practically certain) and defending second place in the standings.
