the idea of ​​the exemption after the Spezia-Corriere.it

A disagreement between the Milan coach Stefano Pioli and the director Paolo Maldini after the defeat against Spezia had been rumored in recent weeks. It seemed like something physiological, given the moment faced by the team, with the Champions League goal at risk (later achieved due to the Juventus penalty). Nothing that could break the front between the two which has always seemed very solid, ever since, in 2020, the former CEO Ivan Gazidis had probed the Ralf Rangnick hypothesis, much publicized by the same, but which it was decided not to investigate in detail. waiting for the end of the season. Maldini, at that moment, was totally on Pioli’s side.

This year, however, the former director has some doubts. Also because the criticisms attributed to one somehow saved the other: if the 50 million transfer market that had deprived the coach of an adequate squad ended up under accusation, it is clear that the coach’s responsibilities were reduced. And viceversa. Maldini, therefore, had begun to think about a possible exemption of the coach in the event of a failure in the Champions League and, today the Sports Courierthe name he thought of was the friend Andrea Pirlowho after his adventure at Juventus, and a year off, had gone to coach Fatih Karagmuruk in Turkey.

As far as it turns out, this was an option that actually ended up in Maldini’s notebooks, but was immediately stopped by the convinced ownership of Pioli’s work. To such an extent that, now, he has decided to strengthen the figure of the coach and place him at the center of market decisions.