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Frustrated Milan Bosses Chasing Down Lippi - Report The 2-2 home draw against Bayern Munich has reportedly convinced the Milan bosses that looking beyond Carlo Ancelotti is the only way to make a return to top form, and World Cup winner Marcelo Lippi is now firmly on their radar.


Frustrated Milan Bosses Chasing Down Lippi - Report
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Milan have made very heavy weather of securing fourth place in Serie A - securing an almost imperative Champions League spot for next season - and the San Siro disappointment against Bayern has helped the Rossoneri boardroom make up their minds once and for all, report Il Giornale.

Marcelo Lippi, Frank Rijkaard and Macro van Basten are the three candidates being considered, but the World Cup winning coach is the favourite, as much due to his superior experience, more so in Seire A, as the fact that he is a free agent.

The club's senior players - Italian internationals such as Andrea Pirlo, Rino Gattuso and Alessandro Nesta, who have all worked very closely with him - are also said to be backing his appointment.

Lippi himself is said to be open to the idea now, according to a source close to former Juventus coach.

Moreover, the report suggests that he agrees in principle with Milan's transfer philosophy for the summer, and is ready to keep most of the current members of the technical setup.

It is being understood that nothing short of winning the Champions League trophy this season will save Carlo Ancelotti his job.


SOURCE: GOAL.Com : http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=273600

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But I just don't get this though...for Carlo to leave I was sure it would have to  be to the Azzuri post coz Donadoni flopped.

Donadoni has NOT flopped. Italy's group is the only one where so many teams are getting the points and if it wasn't for the draw in Italy against ?? they would have been fine. A loss in France is not so unexpected, is it?

Even though I don't give Lippi much credit for the WC (or for being a great manager in general) I can't deny the fact that it was HIS team that won it and by that I mean that he was a part of it, an important, neuralgic one and when one such part is replaced it takes time for the unit to word fine again.

You really think Spalleti will quit Roma.

No but they might "quit him". He was the 6th coach in a single season when he took over two years ago and if United get past them in the CL and Lazio and/or Milan manage to overtake them in the league I won't be surprised if he's shown the door even after what he has done. This is Italy after all. You won't find no Fergusons here.

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I think Carlo's problems is the lack of respect he gets from his players. And it's only normal when the team's president publicly criticizes him... when the players feel that their coach is not so powerful and he is forced into making decisions by his superiors it's a normal outcome what happens. I don't care even if Seedorf is Carlo's secret affair... that response of him in a match of the first round of this season's Serie A should not be one of a Milan player. To do this it means he's been given the space to do so which is not right. And since it happened, there was not even the slightest of penalties for Seedorf... (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) Which means more space is given. Next time he could slap Carlo in the face and I would like to see Carlo shut up and accept it since he's the one that's giving him the space.

This is not just me... Remember Billy said that Ancelotti's presence in the locker room is not so "heavy" anymore. And that was two years ago, summer of '95... Costacurta knows more than we do, don't he?