Incredible news!
Bayer 04 Leverkusen has parted ways with head coach Erik ten Hag with immediate effect.
Training will be taken over by the assistant coaching staff for the time being.
As expected, Leverkusen has taken a bold step to part ways with Eric Ten Hang after failing to get positive results from just few games he's managed this new season. One of the shortest serving manager in the history of coaching?
It's how modern football management works with severe lack of patience to head coaches. Ten Hag succeeded in Ajax Amsterdam, failed in Manchester United but Bundesliga is not a too tough league like Premier League and Ten Hag is able to perform well there. Bayer Leverkusen must also be very realistic with many big changes they had in this summer by losing a head coach (Xabi Alonso) and many important star players (Tah, Frimpong, Xhaka, Wirtz) and it's unrealistic to request Ten Hag winning Bundesliga title in this season.
If their target is only top four, Ten Hag is able do to this for them and 1 point after two first matches isn't like nightmare. Anyway Bayer Leverkusen made the decision, sacked Ten Hag and they will face with more difficulties in coming months with a new head coach. I guess it can be a season they change the head coach position not only one, two but three or four times and they have high risk of finish this season beyond top four with this chaos.
German league club Bayer Leverkusen has recently taken a very sensational step as we can see that they have fired their coach. It's surprising to think they would complete their moves so quickly, perhaps they realized that they wouldn't be able to move their team forward with this setup. After the Dutch coach took charge of the team, everyone noticed that Bayer Leverkusen won against SG but still lost against Hoffenheim, it is even largely true that they had a better chance against the Werder Bremen football team but they couldn't win that match. Frankly German league clubs now need a new setup because the coach of this team has joined Madrid and their main players have also joined Liverpool so it is currently apparent that this team is no longer able to become stronger.
It's an incredible emotional decision from Bayer Leverkusen. It's very weird as if they did not trust Ten Hag's management capability, why did they sign a contract with him in the summer. How they did not shown support to Ten Hag recent weeks reveal kind of internal conflict between the club and the head coach. It is incredible to witness such internal conflict at the season start like this.
This sack by Bayer Leverkusen makes this week is a terrible one for ex-head coaches of Manchester United, from Solskajer, Mourinho to Ten Hag, they were all fired recent days.