{"id":126,"date":"2025-01-04T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-01-04T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:50:12","slug":"official-ac-milan-sack-coach-fonseca-after-just-six-months-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/official-ac-milan-sack-coach-fonseca-after-just-six-months-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL: AC Milan sack coach Fonseca after just six months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AC Milan sacked coach Paulo Fonseca on Monday after just six months in charge with the Italian giants failing to mount a Serie A title challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 51-year-old Portuguese handler had pre-empted the announcement by saying he had been fired as he left the San Siro following his press conference after the draw with AS Roma on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His compatriot Sergio Conceicao is expected to replace the former Shakhtar Donetsk, Roma and Lille coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1-1 draw was the sixth of the season and left them in seventh spot eight points off Lazio in the fourth and final Champions League place, and also a massive 12 adrift of city rivals Inter, who are challenging for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;AC Milan announces that Paulo Fonseca has been relieved from his duties as Head Coach of the Men&#8217;s First Team,&#8221; read a statement from the club. &#8220;The Club extends its gratitude to Paulo for his great professionalism and wishes him the very best in his future endeavours.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conceicao has Serie A experience as a player and is available after the 50-year-old ended a seven-year spell as Porto coach in June this year. Milan, the seven-time European champions, have been battling inconsistent form and fan anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fonseca has been in open conflict with senior players and questioned his squad&#8217;s commitment, repeatedly going after countryman and star winger Rafael Leao and dropping France full-back Theo Hernandez for a teenage academy player in a dismal goalless draw with Genoa earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the cub&#8217;s fans are on a war footing, attacking the owners on December 21st when a celebration of the club&#8217;s 125th birthday was marred not just by a poor match and the very obvious absence of Paolo Maldini among the iconic players parading on the pitch, but also chants demanding that owners, US investment fund RedBird, sell up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporters then turned up outside a private party for the anniversary, barracking most of the arriving players and displaying banners with messages like &#8220;a club with no ambition, you&#8217;re not worthy of our history&#8221;.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan sacked coach Paulo Fonseca on Monday after just six months in charge with the Italian giants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}