🚨 Official: Lens already bin Toppmöller, Cahuzac takes over! | OneFootball

A bombshell!

Six short matches and then gone. RC Lens officially announced on Tuesday evening, to everyone’s surprise, the dismissal of their head coach, Dino Toppmöller, who arrived this summer after Pierre Sage’s departure.

Only 28 days passed between the historic victory over PSG in the Trophée des Champions — the German coach’s first official match in charge of Lens — and his last one, this Sunday, in Ligue 1, at Le Mans (2-2).

In the meantime, Les Sang et Or won their opening Champions League match in Prague (3-2), beat Auxerre in their league opener (5-2), before suffering back-to-back defeats at Strasbourg (1-2) and at home to Lorient (0-1).

But the reason behind this surprise dismissal does not appear to be sporting.

According to reports in the German press, the Lens hierarchy decided to part ways with his long-time assistant, Nelson Morgado. Toppmöller reportedly opposed the move, which is said to have cost him his job.

RC Lens’s statement seems to point in that direction: "Following numerous discussions regarding the organization of the coaching staff [...] Racing informed its head coach of its desire to reshape it. As Dino Toppmöller was unable to agree to these changes, the Club, acting responsibly, decided to bring his mission to an end."

Our partner MadeInFoot also reported this afternoon that tensions had arisen between the coach and his dressing room at half-time of Sunday’s match against Le Mans.

Whatever the case, the former Frankfurt coach is already out the door! Yannick Cahuzac will replace him, as officially confirmed in the club’s statement!

Toppmöller’s 28-day spell at Lens also becomes the shortest managerial tenure for a club coach in France since 1945.

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