It was an ‘out of the frying pan into the fire’ type of week for Joey Saputo. Commendations were plentiful in the direction of the Impact owner after announcing his Montreal re-org last Tuesday, but trouble wasn’t far away as Bologna, his Italian Serie A club nosedived to a 0-4, home humiliation in a game they were expected to win.
It significantly dented the Rossoblu’s chances of avoiding the drop, and hastened the exit of former Juventus and Milan favorite Pippo Inzaghi, replaced as coach, Monday, by Sinisa Mihajlovic. The Serb takes the reins at Stade Renato Dell’Ara for the second time, after previously being in post for almost 6 months in 2008/09.