Today’s edition of “Il Giornale di Sicilia” through an article by Luigi Butera focuses on Palermo struggling with the choice of the new coach and the new sporting director.
Everyone at home is free to do as they see fit, but football is something that involves everyone and therefore it is legitimate for questions to arise. In this case on the management of Palermo. The City Group has its own method, it does not act on impulse and takes its time – analyzing numbers and CVs – to make any decision. The opposite of what the fans would like, who – after the double knockout in the play-off semi-final – are instead in a hurry to understand who will be in the new Palermo, who will lead them on the pitch and who will move the transfer market carousel.
The casts have been open for some time, the calls are ongoing but the decisions, which everyone expects, have not yet arrived. Zanetti has been optioned, the coach has already said yes and now he is just waiting for the phone call to arrive from Palermo, to then sit at the table with Empoli and free himself from the contract that binds him to the Tuscans until 2026. Yet, that phone still hasn’t rings, because in Manchester they would like to seal the sporting director’s name first.
Rightly so, but the sooner you choose the better, because market times don’t allow you to proceed at a walking pace and every wasted day is an additional risk you run. Let’s take Zanetti, for example. He said yes, but how long is he willing to wait? And what would happen if the coach received an “indecent” proposal from Serie A already today? Here, to prevent all this from happening, we should speed up, at least on the DS question if that is the priority.
So far the search has been unsuccessful, because no one wants to come and be a minister without a portfolio. And perhaps this should also make City reflect on the method adopted in Palermo. Since it has been said that the Rosanero club comes immediately after the “mother” team in Manchester, then it would be better to move on to an Italian-style management of Palermo. Which is what is already done in Manchester with the “citizens” (and there you win…) and in Girona (and there too everything works great). In short, Palermo would need a real sporting director who can manage a budget (consistent hopefully…), act independently and also in full harmony with the coach. If he makes a mistake, the exit door is always open.
