Paulo Fonseca gave an interview to The Guardian in which he spoke again about his experience at Milan, which ended prematurely at the end of last December. The current coach of Lyon, who is playing today against Manchester United in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, did not want to go into the details of those six months or his departure, but emphasized his regret for the little time he had available.
“We can see the past decade of Milan, they won Serie A once,” he says. “It’s a difficult moment for them. I had a lot of pleasure being there and I’m really sorry I didn’t have time to continue my work. I think the mentality in Italy is totally different from England, where you give time to the coach. But it’s the way they live football there.”
Fonseca commented on the 9 months ban he received in France as coach of Lyon:
"Unbelievable. Of course what I did wasn’t correct and I should pay for it. But I screamed at the referee, I didn’t have any contact with him or commit any [violence]. They want to make an example of me for French football, I think I’m paying not for what I did but for the moment we are in. But I shouldn’t be an example, I should just pay for what I did. It’s unfair but we are fighting against this decision and I believe things can change. It’s difficult to understand, when we see so many of these situations in all countries and nobody received a penalty like I did."
