Why do there are many famous Italian coaches, but there are few coaches like Ferguson and Wenger who have coached the team for many years?

Serie A coach changes are very frequently. Not to mention the coach who is too far away, let’s just talk about a familiar character, Nesta. I wonder if all the fans are still following this former legendary Italian star? He now is a coach and a more active figure in Italian football. After retiring, he began to work as a coach and spent some time at Miami International in the United States.

Later, he returned to Italy. He has been with Perugia, Frosinone, Regina, Monza and other teams, and his team has not had a long experience each time.

In 2024, he coached Monza, with 1 win, 7 draws and 9 losses in the first 17 rounds of the game, and the club fired him.

Perhaps it was because he could not find a suitable person temporarily. After firing Nesta, the club hired him to coach again in February 2025. The team did not improve much and was eventually relegated.

After relegation, Nesta was unable to continue to stay in the team. Galliani also announced that Nesta is no longer Monza's head coach and is preparing to hire a new coach.

Click jobs like Nesta, which has been transferred in clubs in less than a few years, is particularly frequent in Italian football coaching circles.

It is difficult for many coaches to stay in a team for a long time.

Little Inzagi, it would be great to be able to stay in Inter Milan for four or five years, which is also an achievement that most Italian coaches can achieve. Things like Manchester United's Ferguson and Arsenal's Wenger have been around for 10 or 20 years, which are basically rare.

I checked and Gasperini from Atlanta is one of them. Before he coached at Rome, he went to Atlanta in 2016, and then left in 2025, leading the team to participate in more than 300 Serie A games.

Except for Gasperini, it is rare for Italian coaches to stay in a team for so long.

is also a miracle.

Why do Italian football change coaches so frequently? The teams are eager for quick success and are rarely willing to let the head coach stay in the team for a long time? I think there are two reasons for this

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The first reason is the responsibility effect brought about by "clear rights and responsibilities". In the Premier League, Arsenal's Wenger and Manchester United's Ferguson have a lot of power in the club, which is a bit similar to the manager's role, which is similar to the style we play football manager.

means that the club's signings, finance, personnel management, player training, etc. have extremely high control. In such an environment, they will gain relatively more inclusive and developmental rights.

However, in Italy, the situation will be different.

The coaches in Italy will be more like coaches, and they are really coaches who are only responsible for team training and tactical arrangements. They generally do not interfere in recruiting, finance and other matters, but are managed by senior management.

In the team, their status is not that high and they often fall into many difficulties. The players you buy are not what you want, and they can’t get a response when communicating with senior management many issues. Relatively speaking, their situation will become very embarrassing.

is a bit similar to "fish on the chopping board".

If you have good results in leading the team, the club will use you; if you have poor results in leading the team, I'm sorry, I can't keep you anymore, you can only leave, and you have no right to say that you can stay in the team.

Differences in the management system will lead to differences in the identity of the coach in the club.

Of course, Ferguson and Wenger are now very difficult to exist, and the Premier League is gradually standardized. The coach cannot interfere with the team's finances and sign ups. At most, he only has the right to suggest points. As for whether the senior management cooperates with you, he still has to rely on the relationship between the two parties to get along.

Therefore, it is rare to say that there are coaches in the Premier League now, and Manchester City Guardiola's kind is an exception.

The second reason is the human nature between clubs. Here I will give an example of the nepotism between Parma and Inter Milan. In Italy, Parma and Inter Milan have a very close relationship since the 1990s.

Not only do players frequently move, but the two teams are tacit "iron buddies" and strategic alliance cooperation.

There are any young players in Inter Milan that cannot play football, so come to Parma to practice leveling, play on loan for a while, and then go back after playing. This is true for the early Adriano, Bastoni, Dimarco and others in the later period.

Players of the two teams move very frequently. In terms of coaches, it is not inferior. Like Parma's coach before, Ziwo, who stayed well in the team. Inzaghi left, and Inter Milan's head coach was gone. He said he wanted Ziwo, and Parma immediately let him go immediately, without any trouble. He let Ziwo leave in less than a few days without saying a word.

This kind of human nature is too frequent among Italian teams. Basically, many teams have "unknown secret cooperation" relationships, which have become unspoken rules.

Please help me and I will pull you for mutual benefit, win-win and common development. Everyone has their own circle to play in it.

is also one of the fundamental reasons for the frequent occurrence of Serie A tacit understanding. On the surface, people are not playing counterfeit football, but if they are real and real, will they really let the ball go? I think everyone knows it very well.

Last season, Inter Milan and Parma played 2:2. Inter Milan performed completely differently in the first and second half. I believe everyone has guessed what is going on. This is an obvious "taccording scene". Everyone takes one point to put it into the bag.

This complex relationship also leads to frequent changes in coach positions, too many relationships, and there are always some unspeakable off-field factors at work..

In Italy, the coach enters the palace for the second time. Pioli entered Florence in the second place, and Allegri entered AC Milan in the second place, and there were only a few people going back and forth.

As a fan, you can get used to these Serie A pictures. Don’t think it’s too strange. This itself is part of their football culture.

Just understand this.