[Zed.D]

Galliani heading for Milan exit
By Football Italia staff

Vice-President Adriano Galliani is on the verge of ending his love affair with Italian giants Milan, reports suggest.

Galliani, a loyal servant to President Silvio Berlusconi and the club’s CEO, is heading for the exit after the emergence of Barbara Berlusconi at San Siro.

Barbara, daughter of Silvio, will reportedly take control of the day-to-day running of the outfit from next summer after raising doubts about the club’s present direction.

However, a change could take place sooner given the breakdown in relationship between Barbara and Galliani.

“I’ve received a severe blow to my reputation and I won’t stay here to burn on a slow fire,” Galliani is quoted as saying by the Corriere della Sera.

The Gazzetta dello Sport and the Corriere dello Sport claim Galliani will wait eight days for the club to facilitate his exit – with a substantial pay-off – or he’ll simply resign.

Galliani, 69, first dealt with Berlusconi back in 1979 when he was involved in the television industry.

His entry into the world of football came as Vice-President of Monza from 1984. Two years later he joined Milan.

I call total BS.

This post has been edited by Zed.D: Nov 29 2013, 10:33 AM

[Fillipo Simone]

Well for me he gets points for...

*Winning the title.
*Being very competitive 2nd season in challenging for the title.
*Managing to get into the CL last season when it looked very unlikely.

Negatvies
*Playing players out of position too often.
*Sticking with players who were underperforming too often.
*Poor starts, every season.
*Likely to miss out on Europe completely this season.

I'd put it like this:

Positives
+ Winning the scudetto in his first year, after several years of waiting
+ Evading final execution by turning around his prior mess
+ Trying to think outside the Milan routine and applying a new system

Negatives
- Sticking rigidly to a system that isn't suited to us, nor do we have the necessary players
- Manhandling: some get a cold treatment, others stay top even after multiple fails
- No finesse; which is actually one of the biggest problems with him
- No ability to adapt quickly or to excel
- Eventually his approach and personalty are bound to create a big mess he isn't up to

A disaster this season which could have easily happened last season as well, which shows you how this guy isn't able to adapt or become better.

At the same time you could argue he'd have won 2 titles if it weren't for dumb luck/bad refereeing though. That goal not given against Juve was beyond ridiculous.

Which is something you always fail to acknowledged when talking about Ancelotti. But it all comes down to preferences. I'm weak when it comes to Carlo, you're fond of Allegri as you usually like these kind of generally criticized types. What can I say? It's human.

I totally understand your frustration when Allegri receives such applause from our executives, considering he has so far taken Milan to the pits of Serie A. Galliani is stuck with this coach, that for me is absolute. The replacement will be Prandelli, I'll put money on this right no with you - Galliani is just trying to keep it neat and tidy without any noise. Once Allegri is gone, I doubt you will hear much of the same, on the contrary, it will be praise for Prandelli. And Prandelli fails, we all call him a small club coach who overachieved at NT level, or failed as well (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) And we call Galliani an idiot for signing him ... Ah, tis the cycle of life (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)


In all honesty, Galliani is just praising him to keep the ship steady and on course to climb the table. I doubt a man of his experience can be influenced by Allegri, I mean if you have this quality in a squad, the coach is most likely of similar calibre. Or IMO at least

Yep, this I understand. But I really think we should have sacked him and appoint a caretaker. The way he's handling Milan, nothing is impossible in the worst way.