Struggling Swiss Side FC Grenchen Axe Entire XI After Embarrassing Defeat
In most cases, the manager is the one sacrificed when a club struggles immensely.ย
Fourth-division Swiss side FC Grenchen have been struggling more than just immensely.ย
They're on a nine-game losing streak and have been allowing goals freely to the tune of 66 concessions during their skid.ย
When they fell 10-0 to FC Lucerne's youth team, the club had it. So was the manager to blame?ย
Nope. The players. Plural (see: all of them).ย
The bottom-of-the-table club opted instead to oust the entire starting XI that was dismantled by the youth team. Talk about wholesale changes.ย
"It sounds brutal, but these players are not good enough for this league," director Renato Brun said, according to Project Babb. "I am the head of sport and there to do something when [the club] is not running smoothly.ย
"I am one who talks less and does more."ย
Coach Patrick Boesch was hardly defensive in the sacking of his chosen players, either.ย
"It works well and is not an issue," he said, also via Project Babb. "Others would have long since chucked in the towel in his situation."ย
Not exactly a players' coach.ย
Per Who Ate All The Pies, Brun went on to say that the footballers were released almost purely for talent-related reasons, but also that there were "one or two character reasons, also."ย
That, naturally, didn't sit well with the players.ย
Also per Pies, defender Dedaj Dugagjin said the players were irate as a result of the character assassination, and they learned of their release simply by a list put up on their training ground.ย
