Jose Mourinho left Fenerbafe’s head coach after failing to compete within the league phases of the Champions League.
Mourinho joined the Istanbul Giants in June 2024 and was fired by Rome earlier that 12 months.
He oversaw the second-place end within the Turkish Tremendous Litgrast marketing campaign, however Fennelvath scored 11 factors for Champions Galata Salei.
In addition they misplaced to fierce rivals within the Turkish Cup quarterfinals, ending the Europa League on the previous 16 years previous, shedding in penalties to the Rangers.
Fennelvers was additionally unable to navigate the Champions League qualifiers from 2024-25. The identical was true this week as Benfica was overwhelmed 1-0 within the mixture within the playoff spherical.
They’ve now failed to succeed in the group or league part of UEFA Premier Membership Competitors since 2008-2009, and their newest close to misses price Mourinho’s work.
The membership’s assertion acknowledged: “Jose Mourinho, the technical director of the primary crew who has been in responsibility because the 2024-2025 season, has parted methods with us.
“We recognize his efforts for our crew to this present day and hope that he’ll reach his future profession.”
Fenerbafe is simply the second membership since Mourinho joined Porto in 2002 and didn’t win a significant trophy.
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Mourinho just isn’t the one former Manchester United boss who misplaced his job at a Turkish tremendous rig membership this week.
Solskjaer joined the Besiktas solely in January, main them to fourth place final season, however after shedding within the convention league playoffs, they will not seem in Europe.
Besictas introduced that Solskal’s contract has ended after a 2-1 whole loss was confirmed shortly after a 1-0 dwelling defeat to Swiss facet Lausanne Sports activities on Thursday.
They acknowledged:
“Following the assembly, our chairman, Serdal Adali, thanked Solskjaer for his providers thus far.”