Table-propping Palermo's volatile president Maurizio Zamparini has sacked three coaches in his team's last six games, one of them twice, as his club nosedive towards Serie B.
Sannino will hardly be relishing a trip to AC Milan who were on the wrong end of a Barcelona masterclass in the Champions League on Tuesday, when a 4-0 defeat sent them crashing out of the competition.
Sannino was Palermo's first coach of the season but was fired after three games and replaced by Gian Piero Gasperini, who managed to hang on until the start of February.
Bizarrely, Zamparini then re-hired Gasperini only to fire him again after two matches, the second being last Sunday's home defeat by fellow strugglers Siena which was followed by angry fan protests outside the stadium.
"We must take it day by day, then see where we end up," he said. "We must concentrate only on the work that awaits us over the next two months, training session after training session, game after game.
"My predecessor is a great coach and at this moment we must respect the man and the professional."
"I would have happily continued, Palermo are an important part of Italian football, but after 40 days I realised there was no place for me," he told Sky Sports Italia.
"I made a lot of suggestions to the president Zamparini, but he just didn't listen to me."
Despite their resounding defeat in Barcelona, Milan are Serie A's in-form team, having won seven and drawn three games since the start of the year.
Their decline has coincided with a goal drought for Edinson Cavani, who remains Serie A's top scorer with 18 goals despite not scoring since the end of January.
