The Italian coach has confirmed that he will replace José Bordalás on the bench of Mestalla, who was sacked last week
Italian Gennaro Gatusso will be the new coach of Valencia. The former footballer and now coach confirmed in an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’ on Wednesday that he will be joining the Valencian team.
Days after Valencia made the resignation of José Bordalás official, Gattuso himself has announced that he will start another leg on Mestalla’s bench. It will be his first experience in LaLiga, where he will coincide with his compatriot Carlo Ancelotti, who was his coach in Milan.
Gattuso’s numbers as a coach in his stages in Milan and Naples are not bad. In 163 games between the two teams, he won 87, drew 34 and lost 42, earning an average of 1.81 points per game since 2017. In Naples he managed to get the best out of fast players like Insigne and Mertens.
His intense character in the band is inherited from his past as a football player. He has the makings of personality usually loved in Mestalla, although his arrival has not been well received as fans have been upset by the change since he strengthened ties with Bordalás.
He made his Italian second division debut with Palermo in 2013 and was fired after 98 days in the lead. He went through the Crete of the Greek Super League, where he resigned after five months of alleged economic and sporting problems from the club. The success that put him in the European spotlight came with Pisa’s promotion from Serie C to Serie B, before making the leap to Milan, the club of his life. He joined the transalpine giant as an assistant coach, but after Montella was sacked in 2017, he took the reins of the first team, finishing second in the Coppa Italia and sixth in the League, leaving in 2019 after failing. managed to qualify the team for Champions.
He signed for Napoli, where he won his only title as a coach to date by winning the Coppa Italia in 2020. A year later, after being knocked out by Granada in the round of 32 of the Europa League and aiming to qualify for the Champions League by finishing fifth, he was sacked. Days later he signed for Fiorentina. His stint with the ‘viola’ team was fleeting as the board refused to carry out the signings he had arranged with his friend and agent Jorge Mendes, as he wanted to bring in the players represented by the Portuguese, so he left office. . Now 44 years old, he arrives in Valencia for his first experience in Spain with the blessing of the Lim and Mendes tandem, which will feed him, as everything seems to indicate, of players represented by the Portuguese as was done with Nuno in 2014 – 15.
Source: La Verdad
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