Right: Who Had Orsi in the Sack Pool?

Note: I’m getting on a plane for timezones far away in a few hours. You know the drill, I’ll update when I can, but normal service might not resume until I get home next Tuesday.

After being mysteriously absent from Livorno’s training session today, Fernando Orsi was officially sacked by the club, making him Serie A’s first casualty of the season. Really, given that owner Aldo Spinelli denied after Sunday’s loss (yet another one) that Orsi was in trouble, the firing was pretty much inevitable — a vote of confidence is almost always the kiss of death, particularly when your team have taken only two points from seven games and looks like utter crap.

Orsi was in charge at Livorno for a glorious 16 matches, and managed only three wins after joining the club late last season from the Inter bench. Things looked fantastic after he won his first match going away, but the departure of the team’s only, actual striker for Ukraine was a major blow, particularly when he wasn’t ever replaced. Additionally, the team have given up by far the most goals in Serie A — just imagine what the numbers would be like without Marco Amelia in goal.

Orsi’s assistant Luciano Spinosi is in charge at the moment; the press’ early favorites to take over the club are Gianni De Biasi, who is also being courted by Levante, Luigi De Canio, who may or may not be on QPR’s rader, and Francesco Guidolin, who is still trying to recover from the utter madness of last year at Palermo.

Category: Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: Livorno, Rumors & News, Serie A

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