Overview

• Eugen Polanski, coach of Gladbach’s U23s and a former club midfielder, takes charge of the first team until further notice.
• The decision followed hours of crisis talks on Monday, with Gerardo Seoane leading a morning recovery session before being informed of his dismissal later in the day.
• Gladbach sit 16th with one point and a 0:5 goal record, are winless in ten league matches and have gone five straight without scoring.
• Sport director Roland Virkus said the club no longer believed a revival was possible, while president Rainer Bonhof called the change a necessary new impulse.
• The club says this is its earliest coaching dismissal on record, and the interim staff now prepares for trips to Bayer Leverkusen and a home match against Eintracht Frankfurt, with media already speculating on long-term successors.