Having started with Champions League ambitions, Fiorentina found themselves second to last in the standings: it had never happened to them not to win a single match in the first nine. Pioli has his faults, however…
Next year Fiorentina will be one hundred years old. She has seen and been through a lot, including bankruptcy and relegation to Serie B, but it has never happened to her that she was unable to win even a single match after nine days of the championship. A record, the wrong way to make history. Something that is even hard to believe, even more so to understand: the Viola team that is second to last in the standings makes no sense at all. A surreal situation, if we think that precisely to try to celebrate the centenary in the best way, president Rocco Commisso had authorized an extraordinary purchasing campaign, worth over ninety million euros, commented by sporting director Daniele Pradè with emphasis: “We are ambitious. We have built a team to win”.