Fonseca has arrived. Finally for the times, perhaps we should say shame about the expectations. Warning: football is strange, when you start without favors from the predictions you can only improve your position (see Pioli) but other times instead the predictions are confirmed and then yes it would be a disaster. Fonseca is a good coach but imagine him at Fiorentina or Lazio. We have to get out of a deception. Should Milan be considered the real Milan or an experimental team that takes coaches to relaunch and players to enhance? Once out of this dangerous labyrinth we could give ourselves some answers. We see Milan as the team fighting to win the Scudetto and to try to reach the Champions League final. Ibra talks about history and ambition but his words count less than facts. Today we’re sorry, maybe we’re wrong, but with Fonseca we see a Milan fighting for the Champions League zone and not to win it or to try to sew the scudetto back on their chest. This company is healthy and we like it but perhaps it needs to raise the ambition bar. Cardinale must understand that he has Milan in his hands. The reputation of a Mister is as important as his technical-tactical quality. Nobody discusses it but he has won little so far and we remember him more as Zorro in the press conference and for those high notes in which he sings “Roma Roma” as the Giallorossi coach. Something… is off. Some too.
Small reasoning: the bench changes, on paper, have devalued almost all the clubs. I repeat on paper. Everyone except Napoli. Milan from Pioli to Fonseca, Lazio from Sarri (I don’t know Tudor) to Baroni. Bologna from Thiago Motta to Italian. Fiorentina from Italian to Palladino. Monza from Palladino to Nesta. We’ll see if Juve has really upgraded but it will certainly do so thanks to Giuntoli’s work. Executive cleanliness first of all.
In Rome, in the meantime, they held the funeral of Claudio Lotito. Protests and demonstrations are there but they make sense. We can reproach Lotito for two things: the first is that he is not nice (but he doesn’t do cabaret, he is an entrepreneur, politician and football president) and we can pull his ears for having taken Baroni on the bench who was usually used to winning Serie B or to save Serie A. It seems clear that if you go from Tare and Sarri to Baroni the fans get a little confused. This yes. But otherwise Lazio fans have little to complain about. Nobody wants the club and if a fund arrives it will certainly not do better than Lotito. Their President controls football and they must be happy to be represented by someone who still looks after the interests of their team. He took them bankrupt, cooked and dead and brought them back with stability to the top of Italian football. Fans who last year finished second and this year reached the round of 16 of the Champions League are protesting. In other squares should they carry out a massacre rather than a funeral? The fans protest without knowledge of the facts but above all you can protest in front of an alternative and not in front of an absolute void. In Salerno without Lotito they began the long descent. And Lotito the Patron Saint still misses him.
In Naples, however, Conte has already performed a miracle. He brought enthusiasm and the Neapolitans forgot 12 horrible months. De Laurentiis broke into an ATM but it was worth it. Conte is the right man for a 2-3 year cycle. Strong coach, very strong man, entrepreneurial and intelligent. What Napoli needs. De Laurentiis, however, should stop waking up in the morning one way and going to bed another. This is what Naples needs serenity and planning. Conte doesn’t have the magic wand to get there and win the championship. He will rebuild from the rubble of Garcia, Mazzarri and Calzona. The wage bill will remain the fifth-sixth of Serie A and the market will be self-financed with the possible sale of Osimhen for 100 million and with 100 you have to make 4-5 pieces of 20 if the arithmetic doesn’t betray us. Lukaku could be the 20 deal or you have to wait until August to get him on loan. Good morning it costs 30-35. And half of the money has already gone with two footballers. A defender with a strong perspective and a striker who only performs with Antonio. Asking Conte to compete with Inter would be unfair. The goal must be to return to the Champions League and it won’t be a given either. Inter, Milan and Juve are further ahead. And they still will be. Atalanta are the usual perfect team, you play against the Romans who seem to do things the other way around. Conte is the sergeant (even an iron one) but if you don’t give him the right soldiers he can’t go to war alone. We need weapons and men. Not tutors to grow in internship with Prof Antonio.
