Lucien Favre resigns as Gladbach coach

Lucien Favre resigned as Borussia Moenchengladbach coach on Sunday to leave the club in chaos after losing all of their opening five league games to go bottom of the Bundesliga.

Apart from a bad domestic start, Gladbach lost their Champions League opener 3-0 to Sevilla. “After careful consideration and intense analysis of the situation”, Favre wrote, “I have come to the realization that the best decision in this situation is for me to step down from my position as head coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach”. “There were a lot of unbelievable, exhilirating moments…The time has come to make a change. We have worked with Lucien Favre four and a half years and are very sad that we part company by the way things are going”, Monchengladbach president Rolf Koenigs told the club’s official homepage.

Favre took over as Foals manager in 2011 at a time when the team seemed destined for relegation.

“He was not wanted at Chelsea, but he resurfaced in Germany to become, by far, the best player in the Bundesliga last season”. With his public resignation he has created facts that flabbergasted us.

Max Eberl, sporting director, admitted that he thought the club could overcome the difficulties on the pitch with him as head coach.

The Borussia-Park outfit impressed last season as they finished third in the table to qualify for the Champions League.

Gladbach face two league games this week at home to Augsburg on Wednesday then away to VfB Stuttgart, who are also winless, on Saturday and it is unclear who will now coach the team. “But right now I don’t feel as if I am the ideal coach for the club”.

“Borussia is a team you can push to the top”.