Frankfurt coach Schaaf quits
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Eintracht Frankfurt coach Thomas Schaaf resigned yesterday after one season in charge following weeks of criticism from some club bosses and an alleged rift with his players.
“Thomas Schaaf more than exceeded the target set by the club in this season with a ninth place finish and 43 points,” said Frankfurt board chairman Heribert Bruchhagen, who publicly backed the coach in recent weeks, in a statement.
“The collaboration was always good. We very much regret that Thomas Schaaf will not continue with us down this path. We tried, in vain, to change his mind.”
Schaaf, a former long-time coach at Werder Bremen, had taken over last year and his contract ran until 2016.
But a bad run since the winter break and just two wins in its last seven Bundesliga games saw the pressure on him increase along with what he allegedly felt was a lack of backing from other board members. There were also reports of poor communication with his players.
He became the second Bundesliga coach to resign yesterday after Roberto Di Matteo, with a contract to 2017, left Schalke 04 over differences in next season’s planning.
The former Chelsea coach took over the Ruhr valley side in October but ended a disappointing Bundesliga campaign in sixth place, failing to achieve his own stated target of securing a place in next season’s Champions League.
“(Director of sport) Horst Heldt and myself did not only discuss the past seven months but also next season,” Di Matteo said in a club statement. “I offered a plan for a possible successful future and what the conditions for that would need to be. It became clear that the club had a different emphasis.”
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