Yahoo Sports Mazzara: Gasperini ‘would have accepted’ Milan job in summer – why he wasn’t chosen
Journalist Pietro Mazzara has suggested that AC Milan could have taken Gian Piero Gasperini from Atalanta in the summer, but chose not to.
Milan’s decision to part ways with Stefano Pioli at the end of last season led many to presume that the management would go for a bigger name who perhaps guaranteed an instant rise in the level of competitiveness.
However, Julen Lopetegui was the first to be seriously linked with the job then he didn’t arrive, mainly due to fan protest. In the end Paulo Fonseca was appointed after he chose to leave Lille, and it has already been a rollercoaster under him.
Wins against Inter and Real Madrid have been largely offset by other dropped points, three of which came on Friday night against Gasperini’s Atalanta who are now top of the league having won the Europa League last season.
Speaking in his column for MilanNews, Mazzara provided some interesting insight regarding Gasperini and Milan’s search for a new head coach in the summer.
“A behind the scenes that I have come across: in the summer, Milan could have got Gian Piero Gasperini, who after the victory of the Europa League seemed to have closed his cycle at Atalanta,” he said.
“Gasp would have accepted the Rossoneri bench, probably bringing that technical and mental revolution that the management instead went to look for in a foreign profile.
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“But coaches with personalities, as we know, are difficult to manage both from the point of view of technical requests and in terms of communication, because they are not afraid to say what they think as demonstrated by Conte, Gasperini, De Zerbi and others.
“Therefore, it is better to avoid problems and go in a direction that is leading Milan to something that was not even minimally predictable. Like it or not, in Italy teams work if there is cohesion between sports management, coach and team. Did someone say 2021-22 Scudetto?”
