AC Milan fire another manager; Adriano Galliani still gainfully employed for some reason

For the fourth time in four years, AC Milan have fired their manager. Sinisa Mihajlovic has been let go, while Milan youth coach and popular former player Cristian Brocchi has been promoted to finish the season as manager.

Milan are currently in a bad run of form, having failed to win in their last five Serie A games. But despite that, they’re on pace to finish with their best league position and goal differential in three years. No reasonable person thought that Milan was a good hire and a couple of signings away from returning to the Champions League. Their squad has been a mess since Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva were sold in the same summer that some of the icons from Milan’s golden era retired or were released.

The Rossoneri have very few players entering their prime. Young defender Alessio Romagnoli and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma have had good seasons, but are probably a couple of years away from reaching their peaks. Most of the squad’s other top contributors are 29 or older. Some of the players in that older age bracket -- like Carlos Bacca and Juraj Kucka -- were just purchased.

Mihajlovic wasn’t Milan’s problem, just like Max Allegri, Clarence Seedorf and Filippo Inzaghi weren’t Milan’s problem. Silvio Berlusconi, in addition to being a bad owner, is a generally trash person. CEO Adriano Galliani is incompetent. They haven’t figured out their limitations yet, and they’re running one of the world’s great sports clubs into the ground.

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