Wolfsburg formally sack Kovac

Niko Kovac’s termination as head-coach of VfL Wolfsburg has been formally confirmed. 

Consistent with rumors that started surfacing in the beginning of the weekend, VfL Wolfsburg have opted to half firm with head-coach Niko Kovac. Germany’s inexperienced firm staff – following yesterday’s loss in opposition to Augsburg mixed with FSV Mainz 05’s win over VfL Bochum – are separated from the relegation playoff place by simply six factors with eight match-days remaining. The Decrease Saxon membership confirmed that Kovac had been knowledgeable of his launch final night time.

The Augsburg defeat stretched Wolfsburg’s winless run to 11 straight league fixtures. Kovac was unable to guide the staff to victory in ten league matches within the present calendar 12 months. The VWers discover themselves of their worst league place at this level within the season ever. Even through the 2016/17 and 2017/18 campaigns – through which the membership contested promotion/relegation playoffs each occasions – the staff had a better factors complete by way of 26 match-days.

“After the defeat in opposition to FC Augsburg, we got here to the choice to finish our collaboration following an inside overview of the sport and our total state of affairs,”  VfL Managing Director Marcel Schäfer famous in a membership assertion, “We remorse the event and imagine it’s now obligatory to provide the staff new impetus with a purpose to stabilize the state of affairs.”

“In fact, as head coach, I’m significantly disenchanted that we have now not managed to show issues round regardless of promising beginnings,” Kovac was quoted in his personal membership launched assertion, “We [myself and my staff] want the staff, your complete membership and its followers the perfect for the remainder of the season and for the long run.”

Virtually all of Kovac’s assistant coaches have been launched together with him. No clear succession plan has been established by the membership. In reporting on rumors surrounding Kovac yesterday, Germany’s Sport Bild tabloid touted Ralph Hasenhüttl, Matthias Jaissle, and Bo Svensson as potential replacements. Svensson helped Mainz keep away from sure relegation through the second half of the 2020/21 marketing campaign.

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