As soon as he was fired Marcelo Gallant of Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia, Milan set its eyes on the former River coach. However, when everything seemed to indicate that Gallardo’s cycle in Saudi Arabia had ended, the coach showed up on Tuesday morning to lead the team., in the run-up to the match against Al-Khaleej next Thursday.
What happened was that, after being fired on Monday, From the Arab club they reported that the first conversations between the coach and the club’s outgoing authorities failed to agree on the terms of the termination of the contract.
The leaders continue working on drafting the dissolution of the contract which would include several clauses regarding the coach’s future jobs. Even, The same source confirmed that the dismissal could only be officially consummated in a couple of weeks when the new club leadership takes over.
Al-Ittihad could not meet any of the objectives set since Gallardo’s arrival: they were eliminated from the Club World Cup and the Asian Champions League in the quarterfinals, they lost the final of the Saudi Arabia Super Cup, they were eliminated in the semi-finals of the Kings Cup and is fifth in the League.
Gallardo, in Milan’s sights
Likewise, Gallardo is in Milan’s sights. The sports director of the “rossoneri” team requested a meeting with the former technical director of River.
A few hours after the news broke that Gallardo was fired in Saudi Arabia due to poor results and his fight with Frenchman Karim Benzema, The Milanese team reactivated an old interest and will seek to retain the services of the Merlo native that he could have a meeting, in the coming days, with the sports director of the Italian team who seeks to know his proposal and find Stefano Pioli’s replacement.
After being in the pipeline in April while he was technical director of Al-Ittihad, the multi-champion coach with River is the main objective of Milan, which had thought, in the first place, of the Spanish Julen Lopetegui as Pioli’s replacement, but his fans turned him down. the thumbs up to the Basque with a campaign on social networks.
Faced with pressure from the supporters of the Italian team, the leadership had to give up its progress in negotiations with Lopetegui and, as it turned out, the main candidates that both the Board of Directors and its fans liked were Antonio Conte, Roberto De Zerbi, Thiago Motta and the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca.
Even so, Gallardo’s departure in Saudi Arabia and Milan’s intense search for a new coach could mean that paths between the Argentine coach and the Italian team may finally cross.
Source: Ambito
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