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GATTUSO SET TO LEAVE FIORENTINA

Italian football legend GennaroGattuso is set to leave Serie A club Fiorentinafollowing the disagreements between him and the club. Gattuso was appointed as the new Fiorentina manager less than a month ago and he’s yet to manage them for a single game before reaching the decision to walk away from the Italian football outfit unless the Florence-based team is willing to dance to his tune on transfers.

While confirming the news of Gattuso’simminent Fiorentina exit, Italian football expert Fabrizio Romano said that the former Milan midfielder will walk out of his new job after just 20 days due to the problems on transfer strategy between Fiorentina, Gattuso and his agent Jorge Mendes.

Gattuso had been at Napoli before his appointment as the new Fiorentina boss at the end of last month. Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis opted not to renew his Napoli contract that ended this summer after the relationship between the two parties went downhill in the final months of his Gattuso’s reign as manager at the club. Napoli have since given the managerial job at the club to the experienced Luciano Spalletti who previously managed clubs like Zenit St. Petersburg and AS Roma.

The new Italian Serie A season is shaping up to be an interesting season potentially with a lot of managerial changes than normal though Gattuso is now almost certain not to be a part of that change due to his irreconcilable differences with Fiorentina at this point.

Big Italian football clubs like Inter Milan, Lazio, Napoli, Juventus and AS Roma all have new managers.

The new Napoli manager is Spalletti as confirmed above, while Jose Mourinho has been appointed the new manager at his former club AS Roma. Simone Inzaghi is one of the best young managers in Italian football and he left Lazio to take up the Inter Milan job in the place of Antonio Conte who led the club to the Serie A title last season.

Maurizio Sarri has taken the place of Inzaghi at Lazio, while Maximiliano Allegri is back at his former club Juventus as their new manager.

Gennaro Gattuso urges AC Milan to remain focused in top four pursuit

AC Milan manager Gennaro Gattuso has urged his players to remain focused on the forthcoming matches as the club seek to push for a top four finish to the season. The Rossoneri have been lingering around the Champions League positions in the past few months but they are currently trailing fourth-placed Lazio by two points with a game in hand.

Speaking in a press conference, Gattuso highlighted that the club have never been in the top four running in the past few years but they have the perfect opportunity to make amends for the same. Barring Atalanta, the Rossoneri have four of the next five matches against teams in the bottom half of the standings but Gattuso has stressed that the squad must face each opposition with the same concentration and desire.

AC Milan manager Gennaro Gattuso has urged his players to remain focused on the forthcoming matches as the club seek to push for a top four finish to the season. The Rossoneri have been lingering around the Champions League positions in the past few months but they are currently trailing fourth-placed Lazio by two points with a game in hand.

Gennaro Gattuso urges AC Milan to remain focused in top four pursuit

Speaking in a press conference, Gattuso highlighted that the club have never been in the top four running in the past few years but they have the perfect opportunity to make amends for the same. Barring Atalanta, the Rossoneri have four of the next five matches against teams in the bottom half of the standings but Gattuso has stressed that the squad must face each opposition with the same concentration and desire.

““For the last six or seven years, Milan have reached the spring and not even been in the running for a Champions League spot“. We must take it one game at a time, but be in a strong position to go for it. Our next few fixtures might seem easy on paper, but there is nothing easy in Serie A and this’ll tell us if we’ve matured. We “must face every game“ with concentration and desire, that’s the secret. I want to see a Milan side that doesn’t allow the opposition to attack. I’d happily win every match 1-0,” he said.

Milan are scheduled to face Cagliari at the San Siro this weekend and the faithful will be expecting the three points to propel them back to the fourth position. The Rossoneri’s main concern has come about from their restricted scoring prowess during the current campaign but their fortunes could change during the forthcoming months with winter recruit Krzysztof Piatek in the form of his life. Piatek has already netted three goals for Milan and he is currently the league’s fourth highest scorer with 14 goals on the board.