MILAN ANALYSIS: Crunch time for Mihajlovic | by Stefano Agresti
Not even if one of them helped you qualify to the Coppa Italia quarter finals (with an easy path to the final), and the other allowed you to not lose ground in the title race.
Those results were not enough for Sinisa Mihajlovic: President Berlusconi doesn’t like the team’s style of play, and he expected something more after spending more than € 90 million in the summer.
The Serbian manager is still on thin ice at Milan.
January will be decisive for Mihajlovic’s future as Milan boss. In the next month the Diavoli will face three teams involved in the Scudetto race: Roma (9th of January), Fiorentina (17th of January) and Inter (31st of January) as well as Bologna and Empoli. Plus they will have to do away with Carpi in the Coppa Italia quarter finals. The same Carpi who knocked Fiorentina out.
Mihajlovic will have to play his cards right in those games.
But could Miha do anything better than what he has done already? We don’t think so, but that means nothing, as the man who runs the club doesn't see it that way.
The next six games (in 25 days) will be decisive for the manager. Though he has no faith in Mihajlovic, Berlusconi has one certainty: if Milan win those games, it will be because players followed his wise advice.
If they fail, it will be the manager’s responsibility, and Mihajlovic will lose his job like Allegri, Seedorf and Inzaghi did, all due to the inadequacies of Milan’s squad.
