Stefano Pioli His days are numbered on Milan’s bench. The elimination against Roma in the quarterfinals of the Europa League and the revolt four days later, last Monday, included the defeat in front of their fans (1-2) in the derby that declared the eternal rival that Inter as champions of Serie A condemned the coach who in 2022 led the ‘rossoneri’ to their first ‘scudetto’ since 2011.
The Milan board is looking for a replacement and last week the Italian press reported that they were one step away from hiring Julen Lopetegui, your first choice though not the only one. The Lombard club would have offered him a three-season contract in exchange for around four million euros for each of them.
The harsh statement of the ultras
Whether he accepts the proposal or not, Milan fans have since taken to expressing their disapproval of the possibility that Lopetegui, without a team since he left the Wolverhampton bench in August 2023, He became Pioli’s successor.
Saturday Ultras group ‘Curva Sud Milano’ issues harsh statement in which he said that “the season is coming to an end and the mediocrity that has characterized it for most of its duration has given way to a disastrous and disastrous end which, if that was not enough, was magnified by the rumors about the name of the future coach , which makes us understand again how the ambition to revive the past is not the main goal of this club.
AND The statement of the ultras ends with the following threat: “If this property (the American Gerry Cardinale) believes that it fulfills these prerogatives and shows it in concrete actions (and the election of the new coach will understand many things for us), it will continue to have the tireless support of a maniac in love Otherwise, forget about Milan life as a happy island, as you have done until now.
parallel in social networks the hashtag #Nopetegui has gone viral and on the website change.org a campaign was started so that Lopetegui could not join Milan. The initiative, carried out by the ‘Zona Milan’ fan community, initially intended to collect 10,000 signatures, but since this number has now been exceeded, the next goal has been set at 15,000.
The reasons for collecting signatures
Zona Milan takes that into account “The glorious team does not deserve a coach like Lopetegui”, curtailing the career of the Basque coach, who directed, among others, Porto, Spanish team, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Wolverhampton, and concluded: “We want to protect Milan’s heritage and ensure that it is led by a coach worthy of its glorious history,” explained the advocates to gain support. “Therefore, we ask the club’s management to appoint a winning coach, Antonio Conte is the perfect profile for our beloved Rossonero bench,”
Source: La Verdad
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