Overview
- RC Lens terminated Toppmöller and two assistants after a roughly three-month stint at the club, describing the move as a planned coaching-staff restructuring.
- Toppmöller says club leaders told him they wanted Morgado removed because he was "too demanding, too loud" and a disruptive presence in the staff.
- He reports the club warned that refusing the demand would force a "big cut," and he declined to abandon his long‑time assistant on principle.
- Toppmöller denies that Morgado committed extreme misconduct, acknowledges some cultural clashes inside the staff, and says he will hold further private conversations with Morgado to process the episode.
- This is Toppmöller’s second dismissal this year after leaving Eintracht Frankfurt, a sequence that underscores quick turnover in top coaching jobs and leaves him publicly ready to take another managerial role soon.