There was just something almost eerily uneventful about Palermo's 2014/15 season as the club sustained their Serie A status easily and kept the same manager for the entire campaign. This season brought back the old familiar rollercoaster of madness that has been associated the Sicilians ever since Maurizio Zamparini became club president. Beppe Iachini pulled off a minor miracle by avoiding Zamparini's itchy trigger finger for an entire season but it wouldn't be long before the president couldn't help himself as results began to go wrong towards the end of the 2015. Incredibly, Zamparini decided to finally sack Iachini after he had just led the team to a win over Chievo which just about sums up the kinds of decisions he has made during his tenure and would go on to make throughout the season. Davide Ballardini was brought in to replace Iachini but it seemed as though Zamparini had rediscovered his appetite for constant firing and re-hiring. Ballardini was partly to blame for his dismissal after a training ground bust-up with his players but he would unbelievably return to the club for the season run-in. In between Ballardini's two stints, there were no less than six other men who at one time were described as being in charge at Palermo. It was eight different managers in total over the course of the season which is absolutely staggering. It looked as though Zamparini was simply playing Russian Roulette with these men and had seemingly resigned himself to taking the club back down to Serie B. Ballardini returned with Palermo in dreadful form having gone 11 matches without a win in Serie A and his first game back was a 4-0 thrashing at Juventus Stadium. It looked as though he was just there to captain the ship as it went down but suddenly Palermo were able to find form out of nowhere. They went unbeaten in their last five league matches including a 3-2 win over Verona on the final day of the season where they scraped safety by the skin of their teeth. With everything that was happening off the pitch, it was hard to keep track of who was actually performing on it. Franco Vazquez did step up as the main man in attack after the departure of Paulo Dybala in the summer. What happens next at Palermo is something that is far too difficult to predict.
