Berlusconi's AC Milan gets rid of head coach Allegri, following heavy defeat and Barbara Berlusconi's critics

Monday, 13 January 2014. Barbara Berlusconi's call for “urgent change” after yesterday's defeat of Berlusconi-owned football club AC Milan results in the sacking of head coach Allegri.

It's in the news that Silvio Berlusconi never really liked the 47-year-old Massimiliano Allegri a Livorno-born coach brought in by Adriano Galliani, CEO of AC Milan, long time friend and business partner, one of the most loyal men of the former prime minister of Italy.

A victorious Barbara Berlusconi, AC Milan's CEO (one of the CEOs, actually)

The casus belli for the firing of the manager? A bombastic Sunday evening 4-3 defeat by bottom of the table Sassuolo (the side is just one point away from the relegation zone), with Sassuolo's four goal all coming from 19-year-old Domenico Berardi. What a shame for one of the most successful football team in the world, following yesterday’s loss the team is stuck in 11^th place with 22 points only, 30 points away from leader of the table Juventus.


“It is no longer tolerable for our fans to assist unacceptable performances like this” was the comment of Barbara Berlusconi (aka Lady Barbara), calling for an urgent change. 

And the change came, pretty soon. Allegri already left AC Milan's training grounds in Milanello and – after a 3-hour meeting in Arcore – a decision was (apparently) taken: to entrust former player Clarence Seedorf (and leave out the other candidate, also historic rossonero player, Filippo “Pippo” Inzaghi).

The Berlusconi family is now gaining control of the Milan's football team, since Barbara Berlusconi has been escalating her war against Galliani, and her father Silvio has nothing better to do (expelled from the Senate of Italy, banned from public office, and barred from organising bunga-bunga parties or see women by his girlfriend Francesca Pascale, he needs to find something to occupy his long days, apart playing with Francesca's pet dog Dudù).

The relationship between Massimiliano Allegri (left) and Silvio Berlusconi (right) has never been idyllic

Adriano Galliani is now bound to leave the club, possibly finding a job somewhere else in Europe. A decision that was already pretty obvious after Barbara Berlusconi's declaration of war led her father (the owner of the soccer team) to appoint her as plenipotentiary CEO beside Galliani.