Leo to be sacked?

Milan coach Leonardo has just 180 minutes of football to prove he is worthy of keeping his job as the club lose patience with him.

According to Il Corriere Dello Sport, the Brazilian has been given two matches to turn the team's dwindling fortunes around. The Rossoneri have been stuck in a rut, and they will need to evoke winning performances against Roma at the weekend, followed by Real Madrid in the Champions League.

I'm not so sure I believe this story. It is an International break, so club news is slow and this might just be a page filler. Plus, it seems extraordinarily unfair to tell a coach he has to turn a team that hasn't played well for over two years in less than a fortnight and beat Roma and Real Madrid in a four or five day period.

There is a lot of fan pressure, but plenty of fans in recent times have wanted to see Carlo Ancelotti leave and the club kept him until he got a better offer and jumped ship. Fans also wanted to get rid of players, such as Dida and he is still at the club despite managing to get injured while sitting on the bench and maintaining atrocious form. The sight of him being stretchered off from the bench at half-time was so embarrassing for the club they should have paid whatever they had to to get rid of him.

So given the clubs reticence to get rid of anyone in the last four or five years, I'd be surprised if Leo is let go so soon. Then again, before Ancelotti the club did have a rotating door policy on managers and it seemed for awhile fruit lasted longer than Milan managers. Lets hope they don't revert back quite that far.