Bayer Leverkusen managed it - BBC website article of 5 April 2014 - so why can't we. Has his record of winning games with us been any better?? They were 4th in the table whereas we are scraping along at 20th. Examine the contract and get rid now.
Bayer Leverkusen sack Sami Hyypia after one win in 12 games
Bayer Leverkusen have sacked head coach Sami Hyypia after a run of just one win in their past 12 matches. The 40-year-old ex-Liverpool defender took sole charge at the start of the season, having previously shared the job with Sascha Lewandowski. Lewandowski, 42, who was working with the Bundesliga club's youth teams, steps in for the rest of the season. Leverkusen lost 2-1 to Hamburg on Friday, putting their Champions League qualification hopes in jeopardy.
They remain fourth in the table but Wolfsburg, Borussia Monchengladbach and Mainz are within four points of them - and all have a game in hand.
"The dramatic developments of recent weeks gave us no other choice," sporting director Rudi Voller, a former Germany international, told the club's website.
Having joined Leverkusen as a player in 2009 before retiring two years later, Hyypia was appointed to the club's coaching staff - alongside Lewandowski - in April 2012.
Bayer Leverkusen sack Sami Hyypia after one win in 12 games
Bayer Leverkusen have sacked head coach Sami Hyypia after a run of just one win in their past 12 matches. The 40-year-old ex-Liverpool defender took sole charge at the start of the season, having previously shared the job with Sascha Lewandowski. Lewandowski, 42, who was working with the Bundesliga club's youth teams, steps in for the rest of the season. Leverkusen lost 2-1 to Hamburg on Friday, putting their Champions League qualification hopes in jeopardy.
They remain fourth in the table but Wolfsburg, Borussia Monchengladbach and Mainz are within four points of them - and all have a game in hand.
"The dramatic developments of recent weeks gave us no other choice," sporting director Rudi Voller, a former Germany international, told the club's website.
Having joined Leverkusen as a player in 2009 before retiring two years later, Hyypia was appointed to the club's coaching staff - alongside Lewandowski - in April 2012.