‘Limbo of little credibility’ – Mazzara urges Milan to make tough call regarding Fonseca | OneFootball

Journalist Pietro Mazzara has urged the AC Milan leadership to consider making a tough decision when it comes to Paulo Fonseca’s future, given what we have seen so far this season.

It would be fair to say that the jury was out on the hiring of Fonseca as the new head coach during the summer as some felt he was a good fit for the project while others wanted a ‘bigger’ name such as Antonio Conte or someone more glamorous like Roberto De Zerbi or Thiago Motta.

The results this season paint a worrying picture: Milan have won just three of their opening seven games in Serie A after starting badly, while they have also lost both of their first two games in the Champions League against Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen.

Mazzara published his weekly column for MilanNews and he was very critical of the performance against Fiorentina last night, raising doubts about whether the team are buying into Fonseca’s ideas fully.

“From Fonseca’s words to Milan TV in the post-match on the penalty takers issue, an objective difficulty in imposing oneself emerges because if Christian Pulisic is the designated penalty taker, how is it possible that a Theo Hernandez who is clearly out of phase and a Tammy Abraham who hasn’t had a single ball in the entire match go to the spot?” he began.

“It is also in these moments that the coach lacks control, that he lacks personality, who last night went haywire even in the substitutions, because taking Leao and Pulisic off when you have to go hunting for the equaliser is almost self-destructive.

“It is a Milan divided even on the pitch, understood as identity and continuity of performances. There is no uniformity when the level rises compared to Lecce and Venezia, the derby seems to have been a game in itself, as if there had been a surplus of motivation to avoid the seventh consecutive defeat.

“Leverkusen and Fiorentina have said that that game there is, to date, a unicum. The dust from under the carpet is emerging, the summer choice that had left so many doubts in everyone is proving not to be fruitful and Milan cannot continue to live in this limbo of little credibility and little trust, in terms of the environment, around Fonseca and his ideas of football.

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“Because he should have put his own into it, but the team does not take on what he wants or would like. Furthermore, if questionable choices are also included such as removing Leao and Pulisic, then the omelette is done.

“Furlani and Ibrahimovic must have the courage to make a strong decision, as Maldini and Boban did when they fired Giampaolo to take Pioli (let’s always remember that the first choice was Spalletti, who however decided to remain attached to the contract he had with Inter).

“Even Matteo Gabbia, in the post-match, analysed the defeat in a very honest way and, in fact, certified the state of the players, who too many times made the wrong approach to the game. Maybe because they don’t believe in what is proposed to them? A question that will remain unanswered, but we can’t go on like this.”