"Hahaha! You're fired."
After just four matches in charge and a crushing 4-0 derby loss to Catania, bulldog lookalike Serse Cosmi was sacked by Palermo owner Maurizio "The Manager-Eater" Zamparini and replaced with the man he replaced a month ago, Delio Rossi. And in a rare moment of clarity, the man who went through 17 managers in nine years of owning Venezia and 12 more since buying Palermo in 2002 apologized to the fans for going against their petition and sacking Rossi in the first place.
From Football Italia:
"Changing the Coach was my mistake," Zamparini said on Il Processo di Biscardi. "I apologise to the fans. I hope that the future is better.
"A drama quickly opened up in my heart after the defeat to Catania. I suffered seeing Palermo treated in that way by Catania.
"In the second half we conceded four goals from three shots.
"I'd already had a rethink about sacking Rossi. Yesterday I believed again because Rossi is a good Coach."
Keep in mind, that just over a month ago Zamparini proclaimed that Rossi "ruined my Palermo." But now he's suddenly a good coach again. This kind of flip-flopping is, of course, nothing new for Zamparini. He hired and fired Francesco Guidolin four times and Stefano Colantuono twice. So at this point you have to think that between Zamparini and Rossi, it's the manager who is the more psychotically masochistic of the two.
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