Yahoo Sports Pellegatti: Fonseca ‘acting as a manager’ – Milan ‘might as well have got Conte’
Carlo Pellegatti believes that AC Milan ‘might as well have hired Antonio Conte’ given what we have seen so far from Paulo Fonseca in terms of his outspoken nature.
Conte was the coach that some Milan fans had been loudly calling for over the summer as they believed he represented a step towards more ambitious aims. Naturally, his Napoli side came to San Siro on Tuesday evening and won 2-0 and going 11 points ahead in the table.
One of the reasons given for not hiring the Italian came from Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who implied that Conte requires too much control and is more of a manager than a head coach. In other words, the Milan management wanted to keep calling all the shots, and without any public undermining.
Yet, Fonseca so far has shown himself to be more than willing to make tough decisions and make bold statements in the media, while he has also been left alone at Milanello with the squad given the repeated absence of directors.
Pellegatti spoke to Pressing about the decision to go for Fonseca instead of Conte and the situation Milan currently find themselves in, with MilanNews relaying his comments.
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“Of course there are regrets. Ibrahimovic explained his no to Conte by saying that Milan were looking for a coach and not a manager. But at the moment Fonseca, for better or for worse, is acting like a manager because he is always alone at Milanello,” he said.
“They say that there are always contacts, but telephone contacts are one thing, the players need to see the directors. The day after the heavy 2-0 defeat against Napoli with Milan at -11 or -8 if they win the recovery match against Bologna, there was no one at Milanello from the management.
“Fonseca, for better or worse, is working as a manager. So to leave him alone at Milanello they might as well have got Conte. He would have come running and with great enthusiasm to the Rossoneri.”
