Dino Toppmoller has stated that he was left “shocked” by his exit from RC Lens final month. He left the Ligue 1 membership by mutual consent having taken cost of simply six official video games.
Toppmoller beat Paris Saint-Germain within the Trophée des Champions and in addition received Lens’ UEFA Champions League opener towards Slavia Prague final week. He additionally took cost of 4 video games in Ligue 1, with the membership at the moment sitting in tenth with only one win in that point.
Saying the departure of the previous Eintracht Frankfurt supervisor, Lens defined that the tip of their collaboration is as a result of membership’s restructuring plans. Toppmoller didn’t share the identical imaginative and prescient as his executives on this matter, and so the choice was taken to half methods. Lens wished to dump one of many two assistants that Toppmoller introduced with him to the membership, Nelson Morgado.
Talking on the Spielmacher von 360Media (by way of e) podcast, Toppmoller revisited the scenario. “To search out your self confronted by the truth that, in case your assistant remained an assistant, you your self had been sacked, was a blow,” stated the German. The previous Eintracht Frankfurt supervisor additionally described his exit as “a giant disappointment and a shock” and added that he was “shocked”.
On Morgado particularly, Toppmoller stated that he was “too demanding, too loud, [and] in battle with too many individuals”. The German was swiftly changed at Lens by Yannick Cahuzac, who has been promoted from his function as an assistant on an interim foundation.
| Luke Entwistle
