{"id":12285,"date":"2023-03-29T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=293564"},"modified":"2023-03-29T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:29:22","slug":"tough-pill-to-swallow-says-de-ligt-over-the-sacking-of-former-coach-nagelsmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/tough-pill-to-swallow-says-de-ligt-over-the-sacking-of-former-coach-nagelsmann\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTough pill to swallow,\u201d says De Ligt over the sacking of former coach Nagelsmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"d7553def-c71a-4c36-9b67-e45705b5e90b\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">De Ligt opened up about recent events at Bayern, revealing that he was not expecting Nagelsmann to lose his position. It was a difficult pill to swallow; De Ligt told the NOS.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">De Ligt on Nagelsmann: \u201cI didn't see it coming, I was surprised.\u00a0We are second in the league, in the quarter-finals of the German cup and in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.\u00a0There's still everything to play for\u201d, told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOS<\/a> \ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCBayern<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve sent him a message\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nEkda9twO4\">pic.twitter.com\/nEkda9twO4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1641033645040324610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"80038c97-5add-453b-90ed-923b62849739\">\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t see it coming and was surprised. We\u2019re second in the league, in the quarter-finals of the cup and the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Everything\u2019s still there,\u201d the Netherlands international said. \u201cThose in charge decide who the coach is, but it was tough.\u201d But I also believe Tuchel is a coach who suits us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"80038c97-5add-453b-90ed-923b62849739\">Furthermore, De Ligt dismissed the possibility of a dressing room rift and indicated that he enjoyed his relationship with Nagelsmann at Bayern Munich. He said, \u201cah, the German media \u2013 that says enough. I had a cordial relationship with the coach and his staff, so it was difficult for me,\u201d he added. \u201cI got in touch with him, sent him a message and thanked him for everything he taught me. He wanted me at the club and was very significant to me. Thanks to him, I\u2019ve taken substantial steps in my development over the past few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"96c07e0c-d403-4298-accb-c170883ee9e0\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">As a result of Bayern Leverkusen\u2019s 2-1 victory over Bayern, Nagelsmann was fired. He was replaced by Thomas Tuchel, who was drafted as a replacement for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"96c07e0c-d403-4298-accb-c170883ee9e0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Bayern\u2019s 2-1 loss to Leverkusen, Nagelsmann was sacked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[221,494,2967,453],"class_list":["post-12285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bayern-munich","tag-julian-nagelsmann","tag-oliver-kahn","tag-thomas-tuchel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}