Gattuso to quit Milan at the end of the season
Coach Gennaro Gattuso and AC Milan could part ways at the end of the season. Rino’s recent statements cast shadow on his permanence at San Siro.
MILAN NEWS – A bolt from the blue on Milanello. On the eve of Sampdoria-Milan, in the middle of the race for a place in Champions League after the exciting comeback, Gennaro Gattuso has in fact shocked everyone with some strange and enigmatic statements.
We are referring to “In two months I will tell you“, pronounced by Gattuso regarding his future at the Rossoneri. Rino offered a surprising response when asked about his stay: “You will know my future in two months, now this is not my priority. I don’t think about the future, I don’t think about the two years of contract that I have left. I think only of achieving a fundamental goal for the club, for the boys and for my growth.
Then, in two months, I’ll tell you what I really think, but now I’m focused only on bringing Milan back where it deserves. I hear so much talk, I let it slide and continue to work. When the championship ends, I will tell you what I think and what I will do. I know I have to grow, obviously I would like to do it at Milan, but now I do not intend to talk about this”.
As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport today, behind the words of the technician is probably hiding all the bitterness for the continuous rumors behind his back and for the many doubts that return punctually after every defeat. Gattuso evidently realizes that he is not as stable as a coach in line with the club’s seasonal goals should be. And of course, continues La Gazzetta, there would also be a dialectical problem with the management that in recent times, despite the always proclaimed honesty, would have particularly become abrupt. In short: criticisms considered unjust has hurt Gattuso. The coach perceives a sense of solitude, remarked by the various occasions in which he had to face difficult moments throughout the season alone.
Furthermore, adds Il Corriere della Sera, there is also his relationship with Leonardo particularly at historically lows. Two diverse characters forced into unintended cohabitation. Recruited by the previous management, the former midfielder was confirmed by Elliott in the summer and then during the end of the year crisis but probably more for lack of convincing alternatives than by choice. Gattuso does not feel protected or properly wanted. And this is what he wants to understand at the end of the season and then take a final decision even drastic if necessary.