In or out. It seems incredible but AC Milan, king of the 2017 transfer market, is already at a crossroads: beat Roma (or at least not lose) and relaunch in a championship key or deal with a real crisis, with all the consequences of the case. The speech, ça va sans dire, directly concerns Vincenzo Montella, to date the most discussed coach in Serie A.
We don't want Pecchia, Juric and Delneri but it is clear that the media halo around Milan is very different, and so the match against Roma becomes essential to continue (or perhaps it would be better to say relaunch) the Champions League project. Sometimes there is a tendency to sound unjustified alarmism, but this doesn't seem to be the case: if Montella loses he is potentially within 6 of the Giallorossi (who have to recover the match against Sampdoria) and probably within 7 of Spalletti's Inter.
At that point, the derby after the break would become truly fundamental, on pain of saying goodbye to that fourth place considered essential by clubs and fans, and who knows if Fassone and Mirabelli decide to take advantage of the national break to revolutionize technical driving. Hypothesis that was difficult to implement until a few days ago, when the only possible names were those of Mazzarri (disliked by the square after the Nerazzurri's past, however unhappy ones) and Paulo Sousa (good but not very useful as a "ferryman"), much more logical now that Bayern sensationally fired Ancelotti, guilty of a start to the season below Bavarian expectations.
Whether Carletto might be interested in taking over remains to be seen, but in the meantime his shadow is there and this is enough to put further pressure on Montella, who is increasingly in difficulty hour after hour. Fassone's public attack after the defeat in Genoa weakened him, the dismissal of the athletic trainer Marra seemed to most to be a corporate imposition and the painful victory against the modest Croatians of Rijeka certainly didn't resolve things.
His bench is increasingly shaky and the reasons are various. First of all the approximate and confused game, far from summer expectations, then the choice of formations and men (11 different formations out of 11 is a fact that speaks for itself), finally the management of a group that the usual "draughts" (inevitable when the results don't come) they tell divided and nervous. Of course, Montella also has extenuating circumstances and the first tests of the season show that perhaps not all of the 240 million have been spent in the best possible way, but he too knows how his role is the weakest of all. So he must win against Roma and Inter, or at least not lose, only in this way will he be able to keep Milan for a while longer. Conversely, denials aside, he should prepare for the worst.
