Fabio Grosso lasted three games. Three. Fiorentina showed him the door on Sunday after defeats to Roma, Frosinone, and Torino, and brought Paolo Vanoli back — the same coach they parted ways with just months ago at the end of the 2025-26 season.
The decision is hard to defend. Eight of the players who started Saturday's loss to Torino were new summer signings. Fiorentina sold Moise Kean on deadline day and replaced him with Beto from Everton. The squad is mid-rebuild, and their answer to a rocky start was to sack the man trying to piece it together. Grosso never got the chance to run a settled first team, let alone implement any football identity. Vanoli inherits a dressing room full of strangers and a club that keeps pulling the handbrake the moment things get uncomfortable.
Stability has a value in football. Fiorentina don't seem to believe in it.
Kean makes Fiorentina look even worse
While the Viola were making headlines for the wrong reasons, the striker they offloaded was busy making them regret it. Kean came off the bench on debut for Como and set up a goal in a 4-1 win away at Genoa. One appearance, one assist, immediate impact under Cesc Fabregas.
This is the same player who scored 25 goals in all competitions two seasons ago under Raffaele Palladino at Fiorentina. He's 25, his movement suits the positional game Fabregas plays, and he's got a point to prove. His odds for the Serie A Golden Boot deserve a second look right now — before the market catches up.
Juventus are backing the wrong horse up front
In Turin on Sunday, Juventus drew 1-1 with AC Milan. Federico Gatti's late equaliser papered over the real problem: Randal Kolo Muani still hasn't scored, and his performances aren't suggesting the goal is coming any time soon.
Luciano Spalletti is standing by him publicly. "I'm backing Kolo Muani, and I'm sticking with him. We'll see at the end where that takes us," he told DAZN after the draw. That's the kind of quote a manager gives when he's running out of other options, not when he's brimming with confidence.
Nick Woltemade showed something off the bench, which adds a decision Spalletti now has to make. Kenan Yildiz is out for at least three months with injury, and without him Juventus lose the one forward line player capable of creating something from nothing. Kolo Muani was supposed to fill that unpredictability. So far, he hasn't.
Three weeks in, Juventus already look like a team that needs their striker situation sorted before the season slips away from them quietly.
