Carlo Ancelotti: Bayern Munich sack Italian manager
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Carlo Ancelotti has been sacked as manager of Bayern Munich.
Following Wednesday's 3-0 Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain, the club's board has decided to dismiss the Italian, who replaced Pep Guardiola at the start of last season.
Ancelotti, 58, helped Bayern win the Bundesliga last term, but they only reached the last eight of the Champions League and the German Cup semi-finals.
Assistant boss Willy Sagnol will take temporary charge.
Bayern, league champions in each of the past five seasons, are third in the German table, three points behind Borussia Dortmund, with four wins, one draw and one defeat from their first six matches. They next play away to Hertha Berlin on Sunday (14:30 BST).
"The performance of our team since the start of the season did not meet the expectations we put to them," said Bayern's chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
"I would like to thank Carlo for his cooperation. Carlo is my friend and will remain my friend, but we had to make a professional decision. The game in Paris clearly showed that we had to draw consequences."
Former Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and AC Milan boss Ancelotti has won the Champions League three times - with Milan in 2003 and 2007, and with Madrid in 2014.
That return makes him the joint most successful manager in European Cup history, along with former Liverpool boss Bob Paisley, who also won three titles, in 1977, 1978 and 1981.
Ancelotti also led Milan to the Champions League final in 2005, but the Italian side were beaten on penalties by Liverpool, despite having led 3-0 at half-time.

Analysis
Carlo Wild, chief reporter at German sports magazine Kicker
The relationship between Ancelotti and the team and the leadership of the club has been far from perfect for a long time.
The big problem was Carlo Ancelotti has a completely different style to Pep Guardiola.
The atmosphere in the team was very, very bad in the past few weeks. I think he lost the respect of his players.
Ancelotti is a wonderful human being. I have big respect for him but if you are a very human coach the players feel that you are not as hard as Guardiola and step by step there is a loss of authority.
The leaders of the club didn't think there was any chance that he could correct this situation.
Bayern Munich doesn't often make long-term plans about who will be their coach, but I think they will choose a young coach who can speak the language of the players and who wants to play very intensive football.
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Ancelotti: Pl - 60 / W42 / D9 / L9 = 70% win ratio
How is that sackable?
Lost 1 Bundesliga game & 1 Champions League game this season. People have their off days when things just don't gel. All it takes is 1 or 2 week links on the day and the team falls apart. Sacked for a 70% win ratio. LAUGHABLE!
As for Bayern, too bad Woy's not available. But MacLaren is! I'm sure he can pull off ze jermann accent!
Whats next for Carlo now? Italy manager? Arsenal? Back to Milan?
Um, hate to break it to you, but Barca won a treble after Baldiola left.
As for Bayern, Pep inherited a treble-winning side and failed in the CL every year he was there.
I think it's unfair to sack Ancelotti for doing as bad as Pep, considering Pep had three seasons.
I think its about time Clubs started firing players or whole teams they are being paid an awful lot of money for average performance
Would have been refreshing to see ...
Carlo Ancelotti sacks entire 1st team !!!
Yes they were put out by Real, who destroyed everyone in the UCL last season. Give him until the end of the season and if he's still failing then reconsider.
I think virtually everyone agrees that this sacking is premature, so I don't see your point.
Those players don't deserve a manager like Ancelotti. Ancelotti has always been a gentleman and slowly - slowly we will see only dogs as managers...