{"id":104185,"date":"2025-08-28T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:41:07","slug":"ole-gunnar-solskjaer-sacked-by-besiktas-after-conference-league-play-offs-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/104185\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sacked by Besiktas after Conference League play-offs defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been sacked by Turkish club Besiktas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 52-year-old took charge of the Istanbul club in January and steered them to a fourth-placed finish last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cn02p0wdldwt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeat by Swiss side Lausanne<\/a> in the Conference League play-offs on Thursday meant the club would not be playing European football this season, the club dismissed the Norwegian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said: &#8220;Our contract with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been terminated following a decision made at a board meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Following the meeting, our chairman, Serdal Adal\u0131, thanked Solskjaer for his services to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Besiktas were knocked out of Europa League qualifiers by Shakhtar Donetsk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nuri Sahin, the former Borussia Dortmund player and manager, has been linked with the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been sacked by Turkish club Besiktas. The 52-year-old took charge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-104185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}