The sack was only the first step
Fifty-nine days in the job, three league games, three defeats. Fabio Grosso is out at Fiorentina, and the club are not done with him yet.
The Tuscans are weighing disciplinary action, and his lawyers already know which question decides everything. Do the coach’s comments and conduct amount to gross misconduct and a breach of contract?
Open the case formally and Grosso gets five days to answer before the Italian sporting authorities. Fiorentina would then push to have his exit reclassified as a dismissal for gross misconduct. The money at stake is not small, and neither is the principle.
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“If you love me, sack me”
Results hurt him. They were not the whole story. La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that a furious exchange with sporting director Fabio Paratici on Sunday finished the job.
The former Sassuolo boss is said to have described the squad as “impossible to manage”, and to have stopped believing he could fix it. “I don’t want to. If you love me, sack me,” he reportedly told Paratici. He even weighed skipping the return to training, according to the Italian paper. He never agreed to resign.
Fiorentina, for their part, had been ready to give him three more matches.
Thirteen signings, 130 million euros, zero points
Recruitment sits underneath all of it. Fiorentina brought in 13 players over the summer for roughly 130 million euros. Grosso reckoned several of them simply did not suit the football he wanted to play. Trust drained out quickly after that.
A 2006 World Cup winner with Italy, the former full-back leaves Florence with nothing on the board.
Paolo Vanoli is already back in the dugout, three months after the same club sacked him. The Grosso file, meanwhile, stays open, and it may be settled in a sporting court rather than in a press release.
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