Career killer & bust-up: Why Gladbach sacked Seoane | OneFootball

He is already the second Bundesliga coach to have to pack his bags after just three matchdays: Following his dismissal on Monday evening, Gerardo Seoane is said to have picked up the phone and said goodbye to each player individually. Even to those with whom he had seriously fallen out. And apparently, there were quite a few of them.

Because in addition to the poor start and the ongoing sporting misery, according to 'Bild', a decisive factor for the separation was that the Swiss coach had long since lost the dressing room.

Many players reportedly accused him of communicating too little and making non-transparent decisions. Supposed favorites such as Julian Weigl were allowed to play for a long time despite being out of form, until he suddenly dropped him coldly during the summer break. Christoph Kramer was also dropped by Seoane and has more or less officially ended his professional career in the meantime.

The pardoned scandal-prone player Florian Neuhaus, on the other hand, was completely left out of the squad last weekend. Seoane’s offhand explanation: "A sporting decision."

This went down just as badly as another comment after the heavy 0:4 thrashing against Bremen, when, despite an early deficit, he waited a long time to make substitutions and showed almost no confidence in the bench players. "I didn’t feel that an earlier substitution would have helped the team," the 46-year-old explained publicly.

After 832 days in office and an average of only 1.22 points per game, the Seoane era on the Lower Rhine ultimately ends in disappointment. The club’s management finally withdrew their trust in the Swiss, which parts of the team had long since lost.

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