Fiorentina Elect to Make a Very Quick Coaching Change | OneFootball

Fiorentina are moving on Fabio Grosso after just three games and turning back to Paolo Vanoli, who helped them avoid relegation after a hellish start in the 2025/2026 campaign.

The Viola had poached the World Cup hero from Sassuolo. However, three early slip-ups against Roma, Frosinone, and Torino were enough to make them change their minds. According to Tuttomercatoweb, the manager voiced his doubts about how to solve the situation in meetings with the hierarchy. The officials made the call to fire him rather than giving him two more chances.

Fiorentina will lean on Vanoli again after dismissing Grosso. He helmed them for 28 rounds in the past campaign, taking over a moribund squad after the short-lived Stefano Pioli era and leading it to a 15th-placed finish.

The Viola completely overhauled their squad during the summer, parting ways with several linchpins such as Moise Kean, Rolando Mandragora, and Albert Gudmundsson and bringing in a host of new players.

Our Take on Fiorentina Axing Grosso and Rehiring Vanoli

They looked as bad as one team could in the first two rounds, while the last was a little more encouraging. It’s a harsh decisio, considering how much change they have undergone. They should have been quicker with some big moves if the gaffer’s leash was this short.

They are evidently scarred by what occurred last season, when they didn’t cut bait sooner, and something must have happened behind the scenes. Fabio Paratici’s exuberance and restlessness strike again. We’ll see the results, but they were more likely to earn their way back to relevance by supporting a solid up-and-comer rather than going with a retread who is more accustomed to the relegation struggle and whom they didn’t trust that much just a few months ago.