{"id":107081,"date":"2025-09-01T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/107081\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:42:08","slug":"erik-ten-hag-sacked-by-bayer-leverkusen-after-three-months-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/107081\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag sacked by Bayer Leverkusen after three months in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 cKWiEj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/erik-ten-hag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik ten Hag<\/a> has been sacked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bayer-leverkusen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> boss after just three months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old left Ajax for Old Trafford in 2022 and led the Red Devils to the Carabao Cup in his first season.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag won the FA Cup in an unconvincing second season and was sacked by United after a disappointing start to the 2024\/25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman returned to management in May as Xabi Alonso\u2019s successor at Leverkusen, but has been fired only three months into a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bundesliga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundesliga<\/a> club said in a statement: \u201cBayer 04 Leverkusen have parted ways with head coach Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was decided by the shareholders\u2019 committee, the club\u2019s supervisory body, on the recommendation of the management of Bayer 04. Training will be overseen by the current backroom staff on an interim basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bayer sporting director Simon Rolfes said: \u201cThis decision was not an easy one for us. Nobody wanted to take this step.<\/p>\n<p>4-0 win against Sonnenhof Grossaspach &#8211; German Cup2-1 loss at home to Hoffenheim &#8211; Bundesliga3-3 draw at 10-man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/werder-bremen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Werder Bremen<\/a> &#8211; Bundesliga<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the past few weeks have shown that building a new and successful team with this set-up is not feasible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe firmly believe in the quality of our team and will now do everything we can to take the next steps in our development with a new set-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag had taken charge of just three matches at Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>After winning 4-0 at Sonnenhof Grossaspach in the German Cup, the side lost 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim in their Bundesliga opener and then drew 3-3 at 10-man Werder Bremen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen chief executive Fernando Carro said: \u201cA parting of ways at this early stage of the season is painful, but we felt it was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain committed to achieving our goals for the season \u2013 and to do that, we need the best possible conditions at all levels and across the entire first team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it\u2019s a matter of fully implementing and utilising these conditions again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag becomes the third former United boss to be sacked in five days after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was let go by Besiktas and Jose Mourinho was sacked by fellow Turkish giants Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-107081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}