In the end there was defeat after defeat.
After the 0-2 draw against SC Freiburg, VfL Wolfsburg is now pulling the emergency brake: coach Mark van Bommel is vacating his post.
Munich - This defeat was obviously too much.
Just one day after the 2-0 draw against SC Freiburg *, VfL Wolfsburg * coach Mark van Bommel kicked out the door.
This means that the first dismissal of this Bundesliga season will take place during the current 9th match day.
“The bottom line was that there were more separating than connecting factors,” CEO Jörg Schmadtke is quoted as saying: “The conviction to get out of the difficult sporting situation in this constellation and to bring about a turnaround as quickly as possible was missing and made us decide to work together to end."
VfL Wolfsburg dismisses van Bommel: ex-coach "surprised and disappointed"
The fired coach was "surprised and disappointed with the decision, because I am convinced that together we would have managed to get back on the road to success".
But he ran out of arguments more and more.
The Lower Saxony are in the front midfield with 13 points, but after four wins at the start of the season they only got one point and lost all of their four most recent league games.
Also in the Champions League it was the first defeat with the 1: 3 at RB Salzburg on Wednesday, here the "Wolves" are still without a win after three games.
VfL Wolfsburg dismisses van Bommel: Change fiasco in the Cup near Preußen Münster ends in court
The early cup-out at the regional league team Preußen Münster should also weigh heavily.
In the first round, VfL had struggled to a 3-1 after extra time.
Because van Bommel replaced six players against the DFB rules, the underdog was declared the winner by the sports court.
Club and coach were damaged and had to listen to a lot of ridicule.
The Dutchman had only succeeded Oliver Glasner in the summer, who had switched to Eintracht Frankfurt despite sporting success.
For van Bommel, Wolfsburg was the second head coach position in professional football.
The former professional of FC Bayern * and FC Barcelona * was responsible for PSV Eindhoven from summer 2018 to December 2019.
There, after the group out in the Europa League and slipping to fourth place in the domestic Eredivisie, the chair was put in front of the door.
The club did not initially announce a successor for van Bommel.
The "Wölfe" hired the experienced Michael Frontzeck as assistant coach in the summer.
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