The comprehensive defeat proved to be the final straw for Tekke, who sensationally quit his post during a post-match television interview. The 48-year-old took full responsibility for the heavy European exit, bringing his 18-month tenure to an abrupt and emotional end.<\/p>\n
“I am resigning from a very honourable position,” Tekke announced live on air. “Today’s defeat is unacceptable. Misfortunes and bad luck are all acceptable, but I cannot accept this. I cannot sleep with this feeling. May everyone forgive me. We did our best.”<\/p>\n
The outgoing boss pinpointed the second-half sending-off as the catalyst for their unravelling, before insisting he had to hold himself accountable. “We had a very sad night. Of course, the reason is me and my team,” he added. “It was a sad night for both our country and our club.<\/p>\n
“Until the red card, it seemed like a match that would go well. As a result, we couldn’t qualify for the Europa League. For 18 months, day and night, my team and I have been thinking about how we can do better.<\/p>\n
“The team will be much, much better, that’s for sure. I won’t elaborate further. Nobody knows. As of now, I am resigning from my position after 18 months. I think I have the right to punish myself in this way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The comprehensive defeat proved to be the final straw for Tekke, who sensationally quit his post during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2600,248417,248416,248415,248418,59,708,125310,221,101,62223,62224,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-europa-league","tag-europa-league-qualification","tag-f-tekke","tag-ferencvaros","tag-ferencvaros-vs-trabzonspor","tag-gb","tag-liverpool","tag-m-salah","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-super-lig","tag-trabzonspor","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752411","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=752411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}