There are growing reports Genoa will sack coach Rolando Maran and bring back Davide Ballardini for a fourth different spell at the club.
The side announced it would not be speaking to the media after today’s 2-0 defeat to Benevento.
Sky Sport Italia, Tuttomercatoweb and others are now suggesting President Enrico Preziosi has decided to pull the plug on Maran’s tenure.
There are growing reports Genoa will sack coach Rolando Maran and bring back Davide Ballardini for a fourth different spell at the club.
The side announced it would not be speaking to the media after today’s 2-0 defeat to Benevento.
Sky Sport Italia, Tuttomercatoweb and others are now suggesting President Enrico Preziosi has decided to pull the plug on Maran’s tenure.
The man he is looking to is a very familiar face, because Ballardini has already been on the Grifone bench three times, but his rapport with Preziosi is notoriously fiery.
Ballardini’s first spell was from November 2010 to June 2011, then he returned to rescue the club from relegation again from January to June 2013.
He was recalled once more in November 2017 and for the only time kept on for the start of the next season, only to be fired in October 2018.
Many had assumed that was the end, because Preziosi said such harsh things about the coach, but it seems they are going to patch up their differences yet again.
“I consider him to be a terrible Coach, as in his career he was fired 13 times in 14 seasons,” Preziosi told the Corriere della Sera in October 2018.
“I won’t deny that last year he earned credit by helping us on the road to safety, but he remains only a caretaker for complicated situations. He is not capable of training a team from the start, he never makes that step up in quality.
“Ballardini is a wonderful person, but he doesn’t know how to put his players on the pitch, he can’t do anything. Juric is a positive Coach and it was my mistake to confirm Ballardini at the end of the last season.
“As I’ve already said, he can handle negative results and is good at rescuing bad situations, but we cannot continue a project with a Coach who provides such a terrible spectacle on the field.
“I don’t enjoy firing him, but the decision was inevitable. We had a meeting for an hour-and-a-half, but he didn’t give me the response I wanted.
“He’s a terrible Coach!”