For the record: There is hardly a human being out there that bleeds more red and black than Gattuso. He's a great Milanista and an even greater human being. I adore Gattuso. For me he's a Milan legend through and through.
But Gattuso as a coach strikes me painfully mediocre and one dimensional. Pioli has not won Scudetto but neither has Sarri who for many people is the closest thing to Sacchis level of football out there. Yet I think the way Pioli made this team smash everything in 2020, how he broke records who were held by the great Milan sides of 1990s and 2000s, and how he managed to keep shit together even through the greatest injury crisis I have ever seen at Milan in the past 20 years - and that with one of the youngest squads in Europe, statistically doomed to fail if you look in Serie As the track record of the past 20 years -, that's the far bigger achievement than everything that Sarri has ever done as a coach in his career, let alone Gattuso.
