Palermo Reinstate Delio Rossi, Firing Serse Cosmi After Less Than Two Months In Charge

Troubled Palermo have spun the managerial merry-go-round once more, firing Serse Cosmi following their 4-0 defeat at the hands of Catania and somehow ending up back where they started with Delio Rossi, who had himself been given the boot from the Rosanero after a 7-0 home defeat at the hands of Udinese less than two months prior to being reinstated. Although Palermo’s worrying patch of form, which has seen them go from Champions League contenders to 8th place, began under Rossi, Cosmi did little to arrest the slide with three points out of a possible twelve (although his sole win was against leaders AC Milan), and that wasn’t good enough for the club’s notoriously fickle leadership.

Cosmi, as one might imagine, is not best pleased with this turn of events, as quoted in Gazzetta dello Sport:

After Palermo’s embarrassing 7-0 loss to Udinese, there were strong grumblings that manager Delio Rossi would be fired on Monday morning. Chairman Maurizio Zamparini made plenty of public comments about his displeasure with the team’s recent performances, so after a 7-0 loss, today’s announcement was a mere formality. According to the club’s official website, Rossi has been relieved of his duties and has already been replaced by Serse Cosmi.

Cosmi was most recently the manager of Livorno, before which he managed Genoa and Udinese. He got Genoa promoted to Serie A from Serie B before managing Udinese, where he inherited a team who had qualified for the UEFA Champions League. However, less than satisfactory results led to him being fired. He then had stints at Brescia and Livorno, the latter of which employed him into 2010.