Announcement from the sporting director – next coach fears for his job

Dieter Hecking has already been dismissed, Daniel Thioune saved himself last weekend. Now the next second division coach has his back against the wall – again.

It wasn’t too long ago that Miroslav Klose was on the verge of being dismissed. According to reports, the 1. FC Nürnberg coach was saved by a last-minute 2-1 victory against VfL Bochum. And now? Two weeks and a 0-3 defeat to Hertha BSC later, Klose is once again on the brink of being sacked ahead of the “Club’s” Friday evening game at Fortuna Düsseldorf (October 3, 6:30 p.m.).

“The game in Düsseldorf is decisive in terms of the table. We lacked the final push against Hertha, so we all need to work together to make sure we don’t drop any points against Düsseldorf. We can only do that by sticking together. I can’t say what will happen after that. First, we have to play the game. It’s about the club, which is above everything else,” Nuremberg’s sporting director Joti Chatzialexiou told Bild. In plain language: Klose must win if he wants to keep his job at 1. FC Nürnberg. But his counterpart Daniel Thioune is not exactly sitting pretty either.

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Thioune was able to stifle the heated discussions with the recent 1-0 win at VfL Bochum. “The win is hugely important. Now things can calm down a bit. We all know it was an intense week. But we haven’t achieved anything yet,” said goalkeeper Florian Kastenmeier after the game.

Thioune was also not entirely happy with the game. “You had the feeling that more was needed in terms of fight, determination, and tackling. And in that respect, I have to pay my team a huge compliment. They perhaps even deserved the win over a good Bochum team because they were able to be completely resilient. You can certainly discuss the performance – but that’s completely normal because it was a demanding week for us. It was a hard-fought away win. In some respects, it was certainly fortunate, but overall it was certainly not undeserved,” he said. On Friday, Nuremberg and Düsseldorf will have to improve. As things stand, however, only Miroslav Klose’s job is at stake.