Henning Berg has been sacked. The club went behind his back during combat – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Henning Berg has done much good as a coach in Legia Warsaw.

It started with the league title in 2013/14. Last season was the cup gold and silver series. In addition Legia just outside sporting paper trouble away games in the Champions League.

But now Berg, who in January extended the contract to 2018, got fired. It confirms the club said in a statement.

The process took place in a particularly startling way.

While the former national monument led his crew into battle against Górnik Zabrze today, a battle which also ended 2-2, Legia went behind Bergs back and negotiated with the Russian coach Stanislav Tsjertsjesov.

The Russian signs probably a two-year contract that Legia new coach shortly. It conveyed the Polish newspaper Przeglad Sportowy earlier today.

The entire coaching staff must go

While Berg led his players in a major league game, ie found Legia that they would pursue another coach. Thus Bergs Polish adventure over for this time.

Also the rest of the coaching staff must go. Both Pal Arne Johansen, Kaz Sokolowski and Geir Kåsene is – like Berg – finished in the team.

– We thank Henning for all he has done for the club and wish him luck in the future, says club president Boguslaw Lesnodorski the club’s official website.

– With Henning as coach won the Polish Legia series in 2014 and the Cup in 2015. We part as friends, and we will remember the good results we achieved in Europe, he continued.

The former Manchester United stopper is aware that he has done a good job in the Polish big club.

– There is no doubt that we in the coaching staff has been a success in Legia. Our results speak for themselves. We had not been the longest serving coaches if we had had poor results, said Berg Dagbladet earlier this week.

Getting powerful severance package

When tyddeliggjorde 46-year-old that season’s goal was to win The Double. There he gets now therefore no opportunity.

Instead, he could move back home to his family in Manchester, where children go to school.

– The kids have a good school life in Manchester. They can not drive and move back and forth all the time, so why I went alone to Poland.

All the time Berg had contracted to 2018, he receives a powerful severance package as compensation. In Polish media speculation of sums up to one million euros.

Also in Blackburn, he received a powerful severance package – about twice as much as the Polish media think Berg gets this time.

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