Having lost their opening five Bundesliga games,plus a defeat in the Champions League, Favre thought it was best to leave as manager because he could no longer find solutions to the teams problemsMax Eberl got the call at 7.20am on Sunday while taking his dog, and Hunter,for a walk. Lucien Favre’s agent was on the line, and the news came as the biggest shock of the season: The manager wanted to resign with instant effect, or Eberl was told. The Borussia Mönchengladbach sporting director met with the coach and members of the board an hour later at the club’S HQ on Hennes-Weisweiler-Allee.“Favre said that he was worried that he could no longer find solutions to our problems but we tried to alleviate his doubts and told him that we were convinced he’d find the correct solutions,” Eberl recalled at a press conference on Monday afternoon. The two parties agreed to reconvene a few hours later on Sunday. Once again the Swiss coach, 57, and said he did not trust himself to get the team out of their rut of five league defeats and one in the Champions League. Once again,Eberl and the board insisted they trusted him to do just that.
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Source: theguardian.com