Serie A club Sampdoria has announced the appointment of 54-year-old local coach Giampaul as the new coach of the team, replacing De Versa, who recently graduated, and Giampaolo returns to Samp after two and a half years and will take on the responsibility of leading the team to relegation. Sampdoria also became the sixth Serie A team to complete a coach change this season, ranking second in the top 5 leagues this season, behind the Premier League.
Sampdoria has officially announced that it has signed a contract with Giampaolo until the end of the season, with a two-year extension, that is, if Giampaolo successfully leads the team to relegation this season, he will receive a new contract for two years. Sampdoria have recently suffered a 5-round winless and 3 consecutive defeats, and local coach De Versa has lost his coaching seal, and they must get back in shape as soon as possible after only 4 points ahead of the relegation zone. Giampaolo's debut will be to lead the team away to Spezia this Sunday, which is also a relegation battle, and Spezia is two points higher than Samp to temporarily rank 15th.
Giampaolo entered coaching circles in 2000, starting as an assistant coach in Pescara, starting as a manager in 2004 as a manager as Head Coach of Ascoli, after which he coached Cagliari, Siena, Catania, Cesena, Brescia, Cremona, Empoli, Samp, Milan and Turin, accumulating 294 Serie A games, the most successful of which was naturally in the 3 seasons of Samp's coaching, after leaving Samp, he was halfway out of Milan and Turin. After joining Samp, Giampaolo's number one target was Castilejo, an old subordinate who was in charge of Milan, and he did not know if he could do so.
Giampaolo and Castilejo
Samp is the sixth team in Serie A to complete the change of coach this season, before, There are Verona, Cagliari, Salernitana, Genoa and Udinese to change coaches, of which Genoa has changed coaches twice, but the previous 5 teams have not been ideal, in addition to Verona, who has risen from 19th to 10th after inviting Tudor, the ranking of the other 4 teams is at most flat, and Genoa, who has changed coaches twice, has fallen to the bottom 2, and it is not known whether Giampaolo can save Samp.
Serie A has 6 teams changing coaches, tied for 2nd most of Europe's top 5 leagues, tied with La Liga (Levante, Getafe, Barca, Elche, Alaves and Cadiz), more than bundesliga and Ligue 1 (all 3 teams, The Bundesliga is Wolfsburg, Hertha Berlin and RB Leipzig, and Ligue 1 is Saint-Etienne, Troyes and Monaco).
Van Bommel from Wolfsburg
Coman from Barcelona
Kovac from Monaco
The largest number of coaches changed so far this season is the Premier League, there have been Watford, Newcastle, Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich, Aston Villa, Manchester United and Everton these 7 teams have completed the change of coach, but the effect of the change of coach is not very obvious, only Norwich, Villa and Tottenham hotspur after the change of coach slightly improved, Manchester United sent Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ranked seventh, currently only in seventh.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer