Austrian membership Crimson Bull Salzburg on Monday introduced they’ve let go of coach Pep Lijnders after the group chalked up “many unsatisfactory performances”.
The previous assistant of Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool took over the helm at RB Salzburg in July this 12 months.
However Lijnders was sacked with the membership at the moment lounging in fifth place within the Austrian Bundesliga — 10 factors behind leaders Sturm Graz.
RB Salzburg additionally sit a lowly thirty second within the Champions League’s revamped league part, after dropping 5 and successful simply one in all their six outings to date.
Dutchman Lijnders, 41, “was launched from responsibility immediately”, the membership stated in a press release.
A “profitable begin to the season” when RB Salzburg once more certified for the Champions League “was adopted by many unsatisfactory performances”, the membership stated in a press release.
“In far too many video games we have been removed from our personal expectations and targets,” the membership’s administration stated, including the group wanted “a brand new impetus beneath new management”.
The membership is “working very intensively” to discover a new coach to start out coaching with the group from January 3, 2025, the assertion added.
Assistant coach Vitor Matos, who beforehand spent four-and-a-half years as Liverpool’s elite improvement coach, may even not work for Salzburg, the membership stated.
RB Salzburg have topped the Bundesliga greater than a dozen instances since Crimson Bull took over in 2005.
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