Arrived during the summer of 2020, the Croatian coach was thanked by the princely club.
Niko Kovac and AS Monaco, it’s over. The team reveals this Thursday that the leaders of the princely club have withdrawn from the Croatian coach the responsibility of the first team after an interview Thursday evening. The breach of contract and his departure should follow very quickly, less than two seasons after his arrival in the summer of 2020.
The former Bayern Munich coach (50) had been struggling to get his message across in the locker room for a few weeks. The break with the leaders and especially part of the workforce seemed obvious. According to the daily, the links were even “broken up”With the group which has, it is true, not given the impression of progressing collectively lately. The team also advance “a volume of work deemed insufficient“On a daily basis as well as a”quasi-military methodologyWhich was no longer happening.
A sporting record, however flattering
This dismissal can however surprise mid-season. Because the record of Kovac on the Rock is rather good. The former Croatia coach managed to place AS Monaco in third place on the Ligue 1 podium last season, with a qualification for the Champions League play-offs. The elimination before the group stage against Donetsk (1-0 defeat then 2-2 in the second leg) last summer undoubtedly weakened its situation in the eyes of the trio Dimitri Rybolovlev-Oleg Petrov-Paul Mitchel.
Still in the running to grab a place in C1
Prematurely eliminated from the prestigious C1, AS Monaco remains well placed for qualification for the next edition. The team, quite inconstant and lacking in character during major meetings, occupies sixth place in the championship standings after 19 days, just four points from the podium occupied by Olympique de Marseille (3rd). Suffice to say that the successor of the Croatian will not inherit a drifting boat.