Overview
- Borussia Mönchengladbach have replaced their coaching staff by naming Alexander Blessin to a multi-year contract to end a run of four straight league losses that left the club at the bottom of the Bundesliga.
- The club said Blessin will be formally unveiled at a press conference at ista-Borussia-Park with sporting director Rouven Schröder in attendance and will begin working with the squad during the international break.
- Gladbach sacked Eugen Polanski earlier in the month and used Jan-Moritz Lichte as interim coach, but the interim period did not stop the team’s poor results, including a 4-3 defeat to Mainz.
- Blessin arrives with recent senior experience at FC St Pauli, where he managed for two seasons and kept the team in the Bundesliga for one year, and with prior coaching roles at RB Leipzig’s youth setup and clubs in Belgium and Italy.
- The appointment gives Blessin a short window to stabilise form before the club returns to league play and will test whether this longer-term commitment can reverse a downward trend that risks a relegation fight.