Cesare Prandelli has dropped a bombshell and admitted he may quit Fiorentina at the end of the season.

"At the end of the season I will evaluate my position and consider my future," said Prandelli. "I will not stand for this much criticism. I can accept them as long as I am given my three and a half years of compliments, too, but people in this city seem to forget those.

"I am not acting today. I shall not stand for such a self-destructive situation. In Italy there is a schizophrenic approach to football and it is psychologically crippling. Is it possible I could leave at the end of the season? I said a while ago that a club needs consistency, but if there are people who want to blow everything up here, then I won't stand for it.

"A few months ago I said that in six or seven years this side could compete for the top honours. We are in our fourth year and have already achieved great things. We are held up as a positive example at both nation and international level."

Prandelli warns that the supporters and media have become accustomed to ambitions that the club simply cannot see as the norm.

"If Fiorentina are economically a side who belong between fifth and seventh place, then finishing fourth is a miracle," he pointed out. "There are too many expectations and automatically that raises the tension. The big clubs have more money than we do and perhaps Florence doesn't want to accept these limitations.

"In any case, for these next three months the team and I will give more than 100 per cent, whatever happens come June."