Goodbye Milan. The disastrous defeat a Rome in the second leg of the Europa League quarterfinals definitively marks Stefano Pioli’s career with the Rossoneri. A unwatchable mess, played for a time and a half with an extra man. And that unwatchable bad match was the most important of the entire season: it ended in the worst way.
Dumped by the fans, perhaps even by the team (think of how the coach, in fact, passed the responsibilities onto the players after the match), for Pioli the future at Milan simply does not exist more (even the ultras of the Curva Sud “archived” it with a harsh press release).
In this context, on the eve of the derby of Monday where Inter could win the scudetto of the second star against his cousins in the derby, so crazy rumors are chasing each other, including that of Pioli’s dismissal right after the derby in the event of defeat (and the name for the succession in time, until the end of the season, it would be that of Ignazio Abate).
But even in this case that’s not all yet. Yes, because the rumors also concern Pioli’s own future, to be understood as the next team. And this team it could be Napoli. At least according to what he reveals Mirko Calemme, a journalist very close to the Neapolitans, who indicated Pioli as the favorite to be on the bench of the reigning Italian champions for next season. “Conte continues to reflect (hoping for a call from the Premier), Gasperini and Italiano remain in the running, but at the moment Pioli’s quotations for the Napoli bench are rising. The cycle at Milan will not end in the best way, but it will remembered where he found the Rossoneri and where he leaves them. I like him for his group management, pressure, and for always achieving the objectives of recent seasons”, writes Calemme. Will he be right? Posterity will judge.
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