The 2026/27 Serie A will also change its face on the bench. Just four years ago, the average age of coaches in our league was 51.7; next season it will drop to 49.2. An average that drops thanks to the arrival of four new forty-year-olds: Aquilani at Sassuolo, Abate at Torino, Tedesco at Bologna and above all Amorim at Milan. In the footsteps of the Premier League, Italian football seems to have taken a specific direction, betting increasingly on the potential of coaches. The movement has long highlighted the need for new ideas and new stimuli, after seasons Always more disguised as 0-0. While on the one hand the choices of Sassuolo and Bologna are not surprising And are in line with the path carried out by the two clubs in recent years (the Emilian clubs however say goodbye to two young coaches like Grosso and Italiano), it is Milan that captures the attention. The 41-year-old Rubén Amorim will in fact be the third Portuguese coach on whom the Rossoneri club decides to focus in recent years, after the experiences bankrupt of Fonseca e Conceição and the subsequent turning point that led to the arrival of Massimiliano Allegri. In an increasingly young Serie A, therefore, Roma will continue to rely on what will be the “oldest” coach of the next championship: Gian Piero Gasperini. While many competitors have decided to start from coaches who, despite having shown important qualities, have yet to consolidate themselves at the highest levels, the Giallorossi club has chosen a figure who in the last ten years has established himself as one of the most influential in Italian football.
In terms of motivation, however, Gasperini seems to have nothing to envy of his younger colleagues. The Giallorossi coach left Bergamo with the belief that he can write new important pages in his career in the capital. The statements released during the last season leave no room for doubt: Gasp he has given himself three years to do something important and from next season he is convinced that, with the right investments, Roma can fight for the top of the table. D’Amico’s arrival will also bring things togetherto a couple who achieved excellent results in Bergamo. The new sporting director will have until June 30th to work on the transfers imposed by the needs of the club Financial Fair Play and to the renewals of Dybala, Celik and Pellegrini strongly requested by the coach. Subsequently he will be able to concentrate on the incoming market, with the aim of giving Gasperini a squad worthy of his ambitions and his hunger for results. Because in a Serie A that is looking for the next great coachRoma continues to rely on those who still want to prove themselves.