As we exclusively told you early Sunday evening, Paulo Fonseca was fired from his position as coach of AC Milan, replaced by Portuguese tactician Sérgio Conceição: “AC Milan announces that Paulo Fonseca has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the men’s first team. The Club expresses its gratitude to Paulo for his great professionalism and wishes him the best in his future projects.it is written in the official press release. If his departure is hardly surprising given the results, the management and the game produced, the manner is much more so.
Indeed, according to information from SkySport24Paulo Fonseca learned of his dismissal on Sunday through a simple SMS sent by American owner Gerry Cardinale. No other leader had the courage to speak face-to-face with the former LOSC tactician. A deplorable attitude which has been widely criticized by Milanese fans, wrote La Curva Sud: “A management team can no longer be credible after having spent an entire summer boasting of being firmly convinced by the Fonseca project. You have found your scapegoat, who, if he is not up to the situation from a sporting point of view, has shown himself to be much more serious and more courageous than you, who abandoned him from the start. month of August“.