Schalke sack boss who has taken them to Champions League last eight
Published 11:04 16/03/11 By MirrorFootball
Schalke today sacked manager Felix Magath after just 20 months in charge.
The Royal Blues announced the decision was taken by the club's supervisory board at an extraordinary session this morning.
Chairman Clemens Tonnies told the club's official website there were "very good reasons" for the move, but did not specify what they were.
Magath, who agreed a four-year contract at the Veltins-Arena in 2009 after guiding Wolfsburg to the Bundesliga title, will leave the club with immediate effect.
He guided the team to second place in the table last term and qualification to the Champions League, and further boosted their profile in the summer with the marquee signing of Raul from Real Madrid.
This season they have been inconsistent.
They sit only 10th in the table, but are through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League and the final of the DFB Cup - Germany's equivalent of the FA Cup.
"For Schalke's point of view there are very good reasons for this separation," Tonnies told www.schalke04.de.
"We will not make these public as a legal battle is now ahead of us.
"But we very relaxed about this process.
"What we have decided is a good result for Schalke."
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