Fiorentina: Vanoli at risk after the defeat against Verona

The armored police vehicles outside the Franchi, the fans scattered behind the historic Bar Marisa. Everyone ready for action… Fiorentina closed in their thoughts and pain inside the locker room. From where the team left at 7.20pm aboard some black vans with tinted windows. No official bus, the colored one that has a certain effect when it passes by. Direction Bagno a Ripoli, Viola Park. Where, since last night, the Viola have been in retreat: «Until a further date». The club note. Who today will toast, as usual, with journalists.

Who knows who will show up. And who knows what it will communicate. Because it was yesterday night that brought advice to the general manager Alessandro Ferrari, challenged in his balustrade after the ninth defeat in the championship suffered with the orange Kombat shirt that he had wanted so much, and to the sporting director Roberto Goretti who found himself in the blender. And, to replace the poorly digested Stefano Pioli, he had to choose his esteemed friend Paolo Vanoli. Which has a league record of two draws, Genoa and Juventus, and three defeats, Atalanta, Sassuolo and Verona. In the Conference League they lost to Aek Athens at home where they then beat Dinamo Kiev.

Florentine without victories

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Vanoli put heart and soul into it. But the results are these. Above all, he too seems to have become confused. The contradictory statements on the penalty not taken by the specialist Gudmundsson in Reggio Emilia, the obstinacy of the 3-5-2 when the idea of ​​switching to the 4-2-3-1 used, well, against the Ukrainians on Thursday, was not a utopia. The sidelining of Piccoli, the confusion over the director, the lack of verticality, the defense that continues to suffer, few tactical solutions. There are many charges against the coach from Varese who was on fire inside because, like many of his colleagues, he couldn’t wait to get back on track. And now the company reflects. Even if yesterday’s official news remains press silence and withdrawal. There are two men alone inside Viola Park: Ferrari and Goretti. The owner Rocco Commisso in Thursday’s interview with the Nation said that, at the moment, he is not able to undertake a long journey.

the direction of the Florentine

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It is therefore up to them to decide, in addition to thinking about the usual whirlwind of names, whether to continue with Vanoli at least until Thursday for the last match of the Conference League group in Lausanne or to give him a final try before Christmas in Sunday’s match at the Franchi against Udinese. Whether to rely, as in Mainz, on the internal solution of Daniele Galloppa who flies with his Primavera to the solitary league leaders and also beat Cesena yesterday. Or recall Stefano Pioli who is under contract until June 2028 at three million net per year. The Parma coach didn’t leave the club very well because he didn’t want to give up his salary. He was convinced, however, that he would be able to save that team which in the summer he even thought of making fire and dragging into the top four. He collapsed after ten days and after him also Daniele Pradé, who built a team with many gaps even though he introduced many new additions and interesting prospects. Which, however, have disappointed, and will be difficult to place in January. Because who takes boys who seem like lost souls to the repair market, where they are looking for men to turn around? As the fan singer Piero Pelù sang in his legendary Diablo, «But today paradise is a cunning lie». And B’s nightmare is a concrete reality.