Just imagine if owners started doing this in American sports … The chaos.
Laurent Nicollin — the president of Montpellier (French Ligue 1) — utterly shocked his fanbase after making the announcement that manager Michel Der Zakarian had been fired, doing so right on live television while he was speaking in a post-match interview.
The season has gotten off to a horrible start for MHSC, now being at the very bottom of the league winning only one out of their last eight contests, yikes! Things were no different in a recent 5-0 blowout defeat against Marseille at the Stade de la Mosson, with it only taking 44 seconds for Marseille to score their first goal. (RELATED: ‘Miami’s Gonna Smoke Em’: Scottie Scheffler Drops Genius One-Liner Against Louisville That Ages Like Fine Wine)
Der Zakarian has been at the helm of the club since 2023, but that all changed when Nicollin kept it an absolute bean after the defeat.
“We can’t change 25 players so, unfortunately, I’ve taken the initiative to stop Michel tonight,” Nicollin told DAZN France, according to The Mirror. “We talked in the locker room after the game. I told him it was over tonight. I said to the players that, thanks to their great job, they had fired the coach and that they need to take their responsibilities next week against Toulouse.”
Savage!
🚨 “I told him it was over tonight. And I told the players that, thanks to their great job, they had fired the coach.”
Montpellier president Laurent Nicolling has dismissed Michel Der Zakarian after a 5-0 defeat against Roberto De Zerbi’s Marseille.https://t.co/ITA8XJJXQL
— Get French Football News (@GFFN) October 20, 2024
He couldn’t wait for the dust to settle on an embarrassing defeat and sacked him with the entire world watching 😦 pic.twitter.com/0kMqjsFk0J
— SPORTbible (@sportbible) October 21, 2024
Cold-blooded as hell, damn …
