January 24 – Less than a year after reaching the Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund have sacked their coach, Nuri Sahin, following Tuesday’s defeat at Bologna which left them 13th in the new-look league system.
The club are also 10th in the Bundesliga, 20 points behind leaders, Bayern Munich,
“We really value Nuri Sahin and his work, we had wished for a long cooperation and until recently we hoped that we could manage to turn things around in sporting terms,” sporting director Lars Ricken said in a statement.
“After four losses in a row, with just one win from the last nine games and currently being 10th in the Bundesliga, unfortunately we lost our faith in being able to achieve our sporting goals in the current configuration. This decision is personally painful for me too, but it was no longer avoidable after the game in Bologna.”
There was no word on a permanent successor to Sahin who only took charge in June and had been an assistant to Edin Terzic, who resigned following Dortmund’s 2-0 loss to Real Madrid in the Champions League final, saying the club needed to enter a “new era” without him.
Sahin was a Dortmund fan favourite as a player but his only experience as a head coach was a two-year stint with Turkish club Antalyaspor.
“Unfortunately we were not able at the current time to do justice to the sporting ambitions of Borussia Dortmund in this season,” Sahin said in a statement. “I wish this special club all the best.”
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