the race for Europe is compromised, not so much from the point of view of distances (-4 compared to Napoli and Fiorentina) but due to the dangerous decline of Toro in the last few outings, but there are still four matches to be played in the best way. Ivan Juric has also lowered the bar of ambitions, «The left side of the table for the third year in a row would be a great result» he declared after losing against the Italian champions, but he doesn’t want to end a three-year period in free fall. Then there would be the incentive to look for the points record, currently set at 53: Buongiorno and teammates are at 46, the goal is within reach even if the road is not downhill. And even improving the Croatian’s two tenths of place in the last two seasons could be a decent achievement, despite his ambitions being very different.
So the Bologna mission has already started in Philadelphia, made even more important by the proximity to May 4th: on Friday evening the team will host the rossoblu at Grande Torino, on Saturday afternoon they will go up to the Superga hill for the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Invincibles tragedy . It is forbidden to make mistakes, therefore, even if the percentages of a divorce between the president Cairo and the coach Juric are now starting to approach 90 per 100. A glimmer of hope must always be kept open, but the conditions for a renewal of the contract expiring: the owner is disappointed with the results of the year that was supposed to be the turning point, the coach is already starting to talk almost like an ex.
This is why in via Viotti we are starting to look beyond Juric, with various profiles in the Alessandria publisher’s notebook. There are only Italian names, starting with Italiano: from Florence there are rumors of initial contacts between the parties, but the Viola is focused only on the Conference mission to try to achieve. Palladino from Monza is more than a suggestion, among other things already for a few years, and Gilardino from Genoa is another profile monitored to the point of having been contacted in the last few hours by the management. It’s more complicated to think of Sarri, if only because of the monstrous salary he brings with him from the experiences between Juve and Lazio, while the possible outsiders are Dionisi, sacked by Sassuolo who are relegated, and Vanoli, in the midst of promotion with Venezia.