Less than three hours after the tie ended in a draw, Juventus beat Crotone by three goals at home, putting the Rossoneri 14 points clear of the Champions League places, a result that sent shockwaves through the club's hierarchy. Late at night in La Repubblica, the newspaper quoted Cristianelo, a well-known Italian football expert, as saying that AC Milan's senior management was holding a meeting overnight to consider whether to dismiss Montella, and if a definite answer was reached, then youth team coach Gattuso would be a replacement and take over the first team's coaching.

At 9 a.m. on Monday, one of the most successful clubs in the history of Italian football made an official announcement that head coach Montella would step in and Gattuso would be replaced. The 43-year-old took over the Milan job in the summer of 2016 on a two-year contract and led the team to a decent first year, finishing seventh in the league and reaching the quarter-finals of the domestic cup competition. This summer, the club changed owners and invested heavily in bringing in a number of stars, while also signing him a new two-year contract as a sign of trust. However, the team's performance this season is unconvincing, with 6 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses obviously disproportionate to the investment of more than 200 million, so "Brother Li" can only cry before the situation deteriorates further.

As for the new coach Gattuso, it seems to be more of a temporary replacement, as his coaching resume is even thinner than his predecessor. The Butcher, who played for San Siro for 14 years, picked up the coaching whip in 2013 from Sion FC in the Swiss Super League as a player-coach, but he only won 3, drew 4 and lost 5 of his first 12 games in the team, and was sacked after not surviving half a season. After that, Gattuso was favored by Palermo, who had just been relegated, but after six games, the results of 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses naturally did not satisfy the boss of the Crazy Devil Zamparini, and the termination letter was quickly handed over to the former.

In the summer of 2014, the former Italian midfielder was appointed head coach of the Greek league OFI Crete, which at the time had been in arrears for a long time due to financial difficulties, according to media reports. On October 30, Gattuso announced his resignation as manager for financial reasons, and left in just three or four months. Next, he chose to take over the team Pisa, which was in Serie C at the time, and successfully led the team to win the promotion play-offs the following year and promoted to Serie B, finally proving himself once. But a month later, Gattuso left the club with what he described as "serious, constant, unacceptable" problems, only to be completely scratched back a month later. At the end of last season, the team narrowly fell into the relegation zone, and the second departure came naturally. Gattuso returned to Milan this summer, taking up the reins of Milan's youth team.

From the above experience, it can be seen that the new Milan coach seems unlikely to stick to the position of coach for too long, both in terms of coaching ability and character. Although the club's hierarchy has stated that Gattuso is not the team's interim manager, the newspaper believes that the club's hierarchy still hope to bring in Conte or bring Carlo Ancelotti back to coach in the future. Especially since the latter has parted ways with Bayern Munich and is at home, if it weren't for the other party's reluctance to take over the team in the middle of the season, there might not be anything to do with the current manager.

In the afternoon of the same day, a number of media broke the news that Montella's dismissal was not personally informed by Milan director Mirabelli or CEO Fasoone. Although the latter was attending a Serie A meeting and was not present at the time, Mirabelli stayed in the Milanello base all day, but he chose to have a club staff member inform Montella, who was preparing for the morning training session. This also shows that in front of the club, the status of the head coach is not as high as the outside world thinks, although coaching a giant team can receive a higher salary and reputation from the outside world, but all this is empty in front of those high-level and real bigwigs, once it is no longer needed by the other party, it may be abandoned like a dog at any time, and there is no due respect at all.

In the face of this humiliation, Montella, who had just been dismissed, could not say anything, after all, he still had to work and live in China in the future, and he could not provoke a giant like AC Milan at all, so he had to express his gratitude to the club on his social media. He wrote: "It was very sad for me to leave Milan, I have always tried to give everything to the club, but I also accept the decision I have now. I would like to thank the players and the fans here for the good times we have shared together. Obviously, my coaching at Milan was a failure, but I will always support this team and hopefully Milan can return to the top. ”

Just when Li Mudi was still feeling sorry for this colleague, another news of the change of coach spread on the Internet. In fact, less than half an hour before the official news of Montella's dismissal was released, Sassuolo FC had officially announced that the team's coach Christian Butch had stepped down. It's just that before everyone could discuss the news, AC Milan broke out bigger news, which made the change of coach of the Green and Black lose all its appeal in an instant, and it was not until the coach replacement information of the Serie A giants was excavated that it re-entered everyone's field of vision.

After losing 2-0 at home to second-to-last and promoted side Verona this past weekend, Sassuolo's hierarchy finally couldn't take it anymore and made a quick decision to win Butch, who had only led the team to three wins, two draws and nine defeats at the start of the season. This season was the latter's Serie A debut, having replaced his former club Roma Di Francico in the summer to join the Nerazzurri, and the two-year contract he signed at the time now seems very unreliable. Butch's successor didn't keep the outside world waiting too long, and in the afternoon, Sassuolo issued another official announcement, announcing that former Palermo and Udinese coach Giuseppe Yakini will become the new head coach of the first team.

The 54-year-old is a promotion guru who has led the likes of Chievo, Brescia, Sampdoria and Palermo to Serie A, and he has a personal trait of always wearing a hat, even when coaching. According to local media, the new boss will sign a contract with the club until the end of June 2019, with a press conference scheduled for noon on Tuesday.

As of Monday on the 17th, Serie A has produced six changes of team managers, and it is not yet clear how effective it is, but the impact is indeed quite large. Although these things are not directly related to Li Mudi, he was inexplicably linked to AC Milan on Tuesday night when he received a call from his agent Gines, who said that the club had expressed his desire to renew his contract with the Torino coach and hoped to get a response.

After hearing the news, Li Mudi felt very different, because his existing contract was signed less than nine months ago and did not return until the end of June of the following year, how could the club propose a new contract at this time? However, he quickly got an explanation from his agent, it turned out that the news that AC Milan wanted to poach the Red Bull spread a few days ago, Urbano Caiiro and other senior executives were really uneasy, thinking that in the face of the world's top giants, no one would easily refuse the invitation to coach, let alone the previous mention of his own head coach who became a supporter of the Rossoneri in Serie A for the first time.

Although it was quickly turned out to be a baseless rumor, it was enough to startle several of the club's management. With his current stellar record and the fact that his racial identity can lead to an unimaginable sponsorship deal for the Red Bulls, Li Muddy is already one of the most crucial figures for the club, at least at least no one in the club wants him to leave for non-merit reasons. Another important factor is that the annual salary of the Torino coach is still not high, and the figure of less than 1.5 million per year before tax is only considered to be in the middle of the entire Serie A, but considering the team's results at the top of the standings for two consecutive years, and the tens of millions of sponsorship fees he brought, it is too much to see.

Low wages mean less liquidated damages, and if the Rossoneri really want to poach Li Mudi, they only need to pay a few euros to take people away, which has caused great psychological pressure on the Torino club, and they want to change the contract and increase the cost of forced buyouts by other teams, which makes the other side fearful. Because in the past month or so, Real Madrid's position has been attracting the attention of countless people around the world, and it is not certain that one day Zidane will be dismissed if he can't bear it, in case Lafayette suddenly goes crazy and wants Li Mudi to take over, then he really can't keep people. However, it is obvious that this worry is definitely superfluous at the moment, even if Qi Zu leaves class, it is impossible for the Torino coach to enter the Bernabeu with his current reputation and status, it is definitely a fool's dream.

In short, the club just wants to give their team head coach a salary increase, and in the face of such a good thing, even if he has no idea of leaving in the short term, Li Mudi will not be stupid enough to refuse to answer, so he naturally readily agreed. He doesn't need to participate in the rest of the negotiations, and with Gines, the big agent, he believes that he will be able to get a new contract that satisfies him.

On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, eight matches in the final qualifying round of this season's Coppa Italia came to an end, with the exception of Cagliari, who lost to third-division side Podnonone, the rest of the Serie A teams qualified for the round of 16. The matchup table for the quarter-finals was also released, Inter Milan were lucky to meet the team from the third tier, almost locked up the promotion to the next round, relatively speaking, Torino and Roma have a more sad time, the former will meet Sampdoria, the latter will meet Fiorentina, fortunately the two teams that were at the top of the league last season have home advantage, otherwise it will be a tough battle.

The eight-of-a-16 matches will be scheduled for the second and third weeks of December, with four games per week. The quarter-finals will be held in the next two weeks, and with the European group stage finale next week, Serie A's powerhouses will face multiple double-matches in the final month of 2017, which will be a great test of the players' fitness. Perhaps who will be left behind in the title race will be known before the New Year.

On the last day of November, the official website of Torino issued a bombshell news that the team's main scorer Belotti officially signed a new contract, with an annual salary of 3.8 million before tax, valid until the summer of 2022, and the liquidated damages for foreign clubs were increased to 120 million euros. In addition, the amount of bonuses associated with appearances and goals has also been increased to a considerable extent, and the new contract has a loyalty bonus clause that allows the player to receive an additional bonus of 500,000 euros per year as long as he does not voluntarily leave the club. The new contract makes last season's top scorer in Serie A the highest-paid Italian striker at the moment, but still not as good as Zaza and Balotelli who play overseas, not to mention Pelle, who is making money in the Celestial Empire.

When he renewed his contract with Red Babe last year, the club's financial situation was not good, so the salary package offered could only be described as unsatisfactory. However, with the sponsorship of the "Celestial Fathers", the Red Bull's current financial situation is still very good, although it is not as good as Juventus, Napoli and Milan, but it is not impossible to see the back of the Roma duo who are in a state of financial austerity.

Not to mention Cassie's special situation, Immobile, who joined the team in the summer, received a high salary, and core players such as Benassi and Baseli also received a significant salary increase through contract renewal. Although it has increased a lot of capital expenditure, but it is very in line with the club's current status, it is always a small business, even if the club can temporarily obtain some competitive results will not continue for a long time, only to come up with a salary package that meets the results in order to retain the existing players and attract more excellent new signings, otherwise the team will score sooner or later.

In February and March next year, the few remaining non-core players in the first team will also receive the intention of renewal from the Torino club, and Li Mudi is basically satisfied with the current lineup, so he is willing to keep everyone if the conditions are not too excessive. Even if there are big-name newcomers coming in next summer, because the situation of not having a full registration quota this season will not affect the current retention of these players. The act of proposing to renew the contract can also test who has already thought carefully, combined with the monitoring of the FM system, it can find out in advance whether there are players who want to leave the team, so that the club can arrange a response in advance.