Ten Hag sacked by Bayer Leverkusen after two Bundesliga games in charge

Erik 10 Hag present holds the unwanted grounds of breaking the erstwhile people for a manager of 5 matches earlier dismissal.

Bayer Leverkusen person sacked manager Erik 10 Hag aft 2 league games successful complaint with the play gully astatine Werder Bremen not capable to prevention the Dutchman’s job.

Leverkusen mislaid their opening Bundesliga crippled 2-1 astatine location to Hoffenheim to enactment 10 Hag instantly nether pressure, and Saturday’s 3-3 gully against 10-man Bremen brings an extremity to his abbreviated reign astatine the club.

“This determination was not an casual 1 for us. Nobody wanted to instrumentality this step,” Leverkusen Sporting Director Simon Rolfes said successful a connection connected Monday.

“However, the past fewer weeks person shown that gathering a caller and palmy squad with this set-up is not feasible.”

Ten Hag, who had been retired of absorption since his sacking by Manchester United successful October, replaced Xabi Alonso successful May aft the Spaniard near to instrumentality implicit astatine Real Madrid.

Leverkusen finished 2nd successful the league past play aft Alonso had led them to the treble successful the 2023-2024 run erstwhile they lifted their archetypal Bundesliga rubric without losing a game.

Ten Hag’s task of emulating Alonso’s palmy spell astatine the nine was made each the much hard by the close-season departures of Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, Amine Adli, Jonathan Tah and Granit Xhaka, among others.

His Leverkusen vocation began with a 4-0 triumph implicit fourth-tier broadside Sonnenhof Grossaspach successful the German Cup archetypal round, but with the nine already 5 points disconnected leaders Bayern Munich and a Champions League run connected the horizon, 10 Hag has already tally retired of time.

“A parting of ways astatine this aboriginal signifier of the play is painful, but we felt it was necessary,” Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro said.

“We stay committed to achieving our goals for the play – and to bash that, we request the champion imaginable conditions astatine each levels and crossed the full archetypal team.”

Ten Hag is not the lone erstwhile Manchester United manager to suffer his occupation successful caller days. Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer person parted ways with Turkish clubs Fenerbahce and Besiktas, respectively.

The 55-year-old Dutchman had his astir palmy spell successful complaint astatine Ajax Amsterdam, winning 3 league titles, and helium besides won the FA Cup and League Cup astatine Manchester United, wherever helium was sacked with the nine 14th successful the Premier League standings.

Erik 10 Hag, right, has present been sacked arsenic a caput manager doubly successful 10 months. He was besides fired from his managerial relation astatine Manchester United successful precocious October [File: Dave Thompson/AP]