With the imminent firing of Siena's Marco Giampaolo we must ask did he forget how to coach over the summer?

An adage in coaching i used to hear often about any manger who's team began to falter after a good season was "He became dumb over night" Referring to a coach or manager who led a side to great results one year but followed it up with disastrous results the following year. Many may be thinking this about Marco Giampaolo who only a few weeks ago received a ringing endorsement from Don Fabio Cappello.Cappelo said of Giampaolo that he is one of Italy's new generation of talents.

Since those kind words Giampaolo's Sienna have lost their seventh match of the young Serie A season. Now according to reports out of Italy Giampaolo sits ready to be fired today.So what happened? How does a young manager with such promise become dumb over night?

First off no manager is dumb at the elite level it can just seem that way sometimes.His ability to manage people can always be questioned but we can assume that to climb the professional ladder each man with a "A" Licence is not unqualified or an impostor. Personally i will always feel that a managers is only as good as his Jon's and Joe's and to an important extent also his X's and O's. But without the talent success is almost impossible.

For Marco Giampaolo the losses over the summer of Juan Zuniga and Houssine Kharja should be seen as a primary reason for Sienna's dire troubles. Give him some talent and we discover Giampaolo is not dumb anymore. Whats left for a manager who looses talent but cant adequately replace his losses?

Sienna are not a disorganized side.Giampaolo's strength is his ability to defend building stout well organized sides with high levels of concentration. Was it an issue of motivation? Its hard to sell your players on the idea of victory as the losses pile up. Did Sienna loose its conviction? Put that in the same category as motivation. Did Sienna loose its team Harmony? When you loose your better players and the winning stops the finger pointing starts.Winning solves all problems, so was it as simple as tactical naivete? Again all systems of play work better when a manager has the men to execute the orders. Not all soldiers are created equal. Even Fabio Capello has failed.Odd to say with all his success.

The curse of Italian football is the penchance to panic and replace managers too quickly. The blessing of Italian football is most of those same fired men will be given other chances to get better at their craft and make right. I expect the same for Marco Giampaolo.I know he didn't get dumb overnight.