Palermo sack Gennaro Gattuso after just six games in charge

Gebbarvo Gattuso managing Palermo

Italian Serie B club Palermo parted ways with manager Gennaro Gattuso on Wednesday after just six matches. The Guardian reports.

The ex-AC Milan and Italy player was axed by Palermo after the team succumbed to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Bari, which is their second consecutive loss in the second tier of Italian football.

The 35-year-old won two of his six games while in charge of the club but Palermo’s president Maurizio Zamparini was unimpressed and choose to release Gattuso of his managerial duties.

A statement from Zamparini said: “It is with true and profound sadness that I announce the dismissal of Gennaro Gattuso as coach of the first team. The results have forced us to take this decision.

“Perhaps he [Gattuso] and I have taken a step too far in what was his first experience as coach, in a club and a city as challenging as Palermo is. I have decided to appoint experienced Giuseppe Iachini as his replacement, handing him the task to lead the team back to Serie A.”

Gattuso is the twentieth manager to be shown the door by Zamparini since he purchase Palermo, who we’re relegated to the Serie B last year, in 2002.