Rino Gattuso is the new manager of AC Milan

[van der star]

Montella's demise was coming, that much was clear to see, but replacing him with flipping Gattuso is not one but several steps in the wrong direction. He was a great player but his previous stints at Sion, Palermo, OFI Crete and Pisa have resulted in an underwhelming 31.4 percent winning rate, which doesn't do much to instil confidence. The assistant slapper follows Seedorf, Inzaghi, and Brocchi, all previous Milan players, who managed a combined (!!) 27 wins in charge. I know he is a stop gap but surely they could have done better, if they still want to end up with a CL spot. This was supposed to be the year of the revival, average attendance has been up almost 15,000. Sadly, it looks like we're set for another year of mediocrity.
I hope this jinx works

 

[ShoePolish]

They should've gotten a better stop gap and then try and get Ancelotti in the summer. Getting Gatusso seems lazy and silly at this point of the season. They still have everything to play for.

 

[prateik]

There was a time when I wanted him to replace Keane .. Was a good player.

 

[James Peril]

What a bunch of idiots. Passion works for a few weeks, it will never work in the long-term.

 

[Water Melon]

There was a time when I wanted him to replace Keane .. Was a good player.

How on Earth did you manage to get such a tagline??

 

[DWelbz19]

How on Earth did you manage to get such a tagline??

Supported Man City

 

[horsechoker]

 

[VanHaal'sRedArmy]

Well, this should be fun.

 

[horsechoker]

Well, this should be fun.

Beat you to it

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

Sounds good to me.

 

[roonster09]

Well, this should be fun.

Hopefully he'll be a big hit at Milan.

 

[Random Task]

Great beard, though.

 

[Nick7]

Well Milan's season has gone off the rails spectacularly early. He was an abject failure at Palermo. Can't believe people thought Milan were contenders, surely people will see now that signing 7+ players in one summer isn't the ticket to success.

 

[devilish]

Sacchi revolutionised the Serie A so it was only fair that AC Milan would then rely on his 'offspring' to keep the team on top. That strategy worked well with Capello and Ancelotti however, it got weaker in time as football moved on, making the Milan's way first became mainstream and then, little by little obsolete. Many ex AC Milan players went on through that route and failed miserably (Inzaghi, Seedorf, Leonardo)

Montella was brought to manage a cash strapped club who had no real ambitions of winning anything. He was clearly out of depth in this new Milan. Gattuso is a worse option to Montella. Its time for AC Milan to acknowledge that the 90s are long over.

 

[Zlatattack]

Would Ancelloti not have gone back?

 

[Tom Van Persie]

They'll appoint Ancelotti next summer.

 

[Flying_Heckfish]

Give it `rino til the end of the season

 

[Schneckerl]

they fully bought the give it to giggsy meme and won't stop trying it seems

 

[notcool]

His tactics will be win the game or I will fecking strangle you to death with my bare hands.

 

[VanHaal'sRedArmy]

Beat you to it

First thing that came to mind. Great minds think alike.

 

[izec]

Terrible appointment. They need a miracle

 

[Moonred]

Gave it to Gattuseh!

 

[horsechoker]

Grande Sam was available, should have gone for him

 

[VorZakone]

He'll be fired as quickly as Seedorf.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Grande Sam was available, should have gone for him

Even Bilic wouldn't have been half bad an appointment even on a stop gap basis.

 

[Theafonis]

Why would he succeed when legends like Seedorf and others failed as caretaker/interims for Milan?

 

[GifLord]

Just looked at the table and they're 11poins behind 4th place Roma. Can't see them making the UCL next year unless they somehow win the EL

 

[Robbie Boy]

Righteo.

 

[2 man midfield]

Should've gotten Big Sam

 

[Rhyme Animal]

Give it to Giggsy.

 

[Ecstatic]

Montella's demise was coming, that much was clear to see, but replacing him with flipping Gattuso is not one but several steps in the wrong direction. He was a great player but his previous stints at Sion, Palermo, OFI Crete and Pisa have resulted in an underwhelming 31.4 percent winning rate, which doesn't do much to instil confidence. The assistant slapper follows Seedorf, Inzaghi, and Brocchi, all previous Milan players, who managed a combined (!!) 27 wins in charge. I know he is a stop gap but surely they could have done better, if they still want to end up with a CL spot. This was supposed to be the year of the revival, average attendance has been up almost 15,000. Sadly, it looks like we're set for another year of mediocrity.

I know Milan has relatively second-class team nowadays but - last season - the average attendance was 37,861 (47.32%): why? Economic crisis? People prefer to bet?

Even, in Paris, during the black years, the attendance rate was much much higher and France isn't a football fanatic country.

Edit: calcio-spezzatino + ageing infrastructure + boring Juve that killed the competition...

 

[Cristiano Lell]

Why would he succeed when legends like Seedorf and others failed as caretaker/interims for Milan?

Strange question. Neither Gattuso nor 'Seedorf and the others' (guess you mean Inzaghi) are legendary for coaching, your hierarchy is derived from their status as players.
Who knows, maybe Gattuso is a vastly better coach than them? Or maybe he'll simply be in more lucky and favourable circumstances than those two? The squad is arguably better than 3 years ago, no?

 

[Enigma_87]

So they gave the job to a manager who just relegated Pisa to seria C1.

Really poor appointment. Screams desperation.

 

[Mike09]

What are they thinking?

 

[Bepi]

You know, Montella is not a cretin, he was probably out of his depth but the squad is made of average players and doublets or triplets. Even Bonucci, their marquee signing, his bang average as an individual player out of Juve machine.

 

[saivet]

Bet Giggs wished he'd moved to AC Milan. Seems like they hand their former players the manager job for fun.

 

[Eddy_JukeZ]

Well Milan's season has gone off the rails spectacularly early. He was an abject failure at Palermo. Can't believe people thought Milan were contenders, surely people will see now that signing 7+ players in one summer isn't the ticket to success.

They signed some bang average players too.

 

[SirAF]

There was a time when I wanted him to replace Keane .. Was a good player.

He was my #1 muppet signing at a time..

 

[Nick7]

They signed some bang average players too.

Yeah feck all decent ones and people were going crazy for them in the summer...

 

[redshaw]

Very Neville-esque appointment, but you never truly know unless you try I guess.

I used to be in awe at the Italian managerial merry-go-round, so many top coaches back then.