Across Europe, there are still games to be played and honors to be won. Besides the Champions League, several leagues are still in the midst of promotion playoffs. But the mayhem of managerial turnover is well underway.
Eight of the top 10 Serie A sides from this season have already replaced their managers. In Germany, Dortmund's poaching of Borussia Mönchengladbach coach Marco Rose sparked a chain reaction. Gladbach has replaced Rose with Eintracht Frankfurt coach Adi Hütter, who was in turn replaced by Oliver Glasner, departing Wolfsburg not even two weeks after he had led the side to Champions League qualification.
Julian Nagelsmann ended speculation by taking over at Bayern, whose former coach Hansi Flick will take over the German national team. Nagelsmann was replaced from within the Red Bull family by American Jesse Marsch. Leverkusen, which had sacked Peter Bosz in March, replaced interim boss Hannes Wolf with Gerardo Seoane after a wildly successful spell in Switzerland with Young Boys.
Bosz and Leverkusen got off to a flying start in the Bundesliga this season, with only a defeat to Bayern Munich just before Christmas preventing the club from going into the mid-season break in first. Things deteriorated quickly for Bosz after the new year as Leverkusen entered a prolonged slump. A win over Gladbach in early March was just the side's third since the return to play. After a 3-0 defeat to struggling Hertha two weeks later, Bosz got the sack with Leverkusen in sixth place.
The Dutchman is set for a return to the hot seat having agreed to coach Lyon, in need of a replacement for Rudi Garcia. According to Get French Football News, Christophe Galtier, having just led Lille to a remarkable league title triumph, rejected an offer from Lyon and looks likely to join OGC Nice.
L’Olympique Lyonnais est très heureux d’informer de la nomination de Peter Bosz en qualité d’entraineur de l’équipe professionnelle pour les deux prochaines saisons, soit jusqu’au 30 juin 2023.
— Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) May 29, 2021
That led Lyon, which finished fourth this season, to appoint Bosz to a two-year deal. Now 57, Bosz spent a year at Ajax and finished runner-up in the Europa League after his young side fell in the final against Manchester United. He then moved to Dortmund in June 2017 to replace Thomas Tuchel. His commitment to an attacking style of play and success in developing players made him seem a good fit for Dortmund, but Bosz was sacked in December after a run of poor results and early elimination from the Champions League.
Bosz was eager to redeem himself with Leverkusen, saying that Germany "had not seen the real version of him yet." He helped Leverkusen qualify for the Champions League after taking over with the side in ninth place. The first half of this season saw Bosz produce some stunning displays and get the most out of youngsters like Leon Bailey, Moussa Diaby and Florian Wirtz. While the Dutchman did not enjoy a happy ending to his tenure back in the Bundesliga, he evidently showed enough promise for Lyon to snap him up.
Lyon, like Ajax, has a long history of churning out exciting young players from its academy. Maxence Caqueret and Rayan Cherki are the latest to roll off the assembly line, and Houssem Aouar boasts tons of experience yet is still just 23. Lyon presents an exciting opportunity for Bosz to once again build a young team that is easy on the eye and ruthless in attack.
