The collaboration between Monaco and Philippe Clement comes to an end after a season and a half. The Rock club has announced that it is parting with its coach with one year left on his contract. It should pay for the worrying results of AS Monaco over the season which led the club to a sixth place which deprived them of European qualification.
The last defeat against Toulouse (1-2) at the Louis II stadium on Saturday evening during the 38th and last day of Ligue 1 looks like a fatal blow, precipitating the fall of Philippe Clement who has lost his last three meetings. He who knew he was in danger wanted to show himself still committed to the Monegasque project after the defeat against TFC. “I want to fight for this club but it’s up to the leaders to decide. »
“The sporting dynamics of this end of the season concluded with a final classification below expectations indicated that a change at the head of the first team had become necessary”, wrote the club in a press release, without announcing the identity. of Clement’s successor, who was under contract until 2024. In his first half-season with Monaco, Clement managed to reach 3rd place in the 2021-22 L1, but ASM then failed in the third preliminary round Champions League at the start of the season.
Monaco will therefore have to turn the page and start anew with the departure of its coach and the arrival of a new sports director, the Brazilian Thiago Scuro. Two names are already being studied to succeed Clement, Matthias Jaissle, stationed at RB Salzburg and Jesse Marsch, who also passed through the Austrian champion club (2019-2021), and Leipzig (2018-2019/2021). Marsch also coached the New York Red Bulls, a coach who therefore knows the Red Bull subsidiary well, from which Thiago Scuro comes.
