{"id":603861,"date":"2021-11-01T06:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=603861"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:15:31","slug":"barnsley-sack-head-coach-markus-schopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/01\/barnsley-sack-head-coach-markus-schopp\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnsley Sack Head Coach Markus Schopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barnsley have sacked head coach Markuss Schopp following their 2-1 defeat away to Bristol City at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh straight defeat left Barnsley four points from safety and only three points above Derby County, who suffered a 12-point deduction earlier this season<\/p>\n<p>Schopp&#8217;s sacking is the third in the Championship this season, following <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/16\/chris-hughton-sacked-by-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_self\">Chris Hughton<\/a> at Nottingham Forest and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/10\/23\/mick-mccarthy-sacked-cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Mick McCarthy<\/a> at Cardiff City.<\/p>\n<p>Barnsley also confirmed <span class=\"s12\">Joseph\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s12\">Laumann will take temporary charge while they search for a replacement. <\/span>It is unclear who will take over at Oakwell.<\/p>\n<h2>Barnsley Sack Markus Schopp<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Barnsley Football Club can confirm the departure of First Team Head Coach, Markus Schopp, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barnsley FC (@BarnsleyFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarnsleyFC\/status\/1455112380598337541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Club Statement<\/h3>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnsleyfc.co.uk\/news\/2021\/november\/markus-schopp-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>, Barnsley said: &#8220;Barnsley Football Club can confirm the departure of First Team Head Coach, Markus Schopp, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s10\"><span class=\"s12\">&#8220;The club places on record its appreciation for Markus\u2019 efforts and wishes him the very best in his future endeavours.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s12\">Khaled El-Ahmad, <\/span>Barnsley chief executive, said<span class=\"s12\">:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s13\">\u201cOn behalf of everyone at\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s13\">Oakwell<\/span><span class=\"s13\">, I would like to thank Markus for\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s13\">the last few months<\/span><span class=\"s13\"> and wish him well for the next step in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s13\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"s13\">I would like supporters to know that the process for finding a suitable replacement is underway and we will announce a new appointment in due course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Markus Schopp added: &#8220;I would like to thank all those who have accompanied me in this short but very intense time. It is a pity that our hard work was not reflected in the results. I wish the club all the best for the future and that they will achieve all their goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Terrible Form<\/h3>\n<p>Barnsley have suffered seven straight defeats with their only win coming in August.<\/p>\n<p>The final straw came this weekend when fellow Championship strugglers, Bristol City, recorded their first home win of the season against Schopp&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Barnsley&#8217;s poor form is starker when Derby are just one win away from going level on points with them at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p>They have scored just ten league goals this campaign &#8211; the second worse in the division &#8211; leaving them in a desperate position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"sfbEEy5dTf18CPrVKGSYEA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1348578593\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'sfbEEy5dTf18CPrVKGSYEA',sig:'iyPyeFIpN1KOrpPzRc0RoeAv3STazPDkRFOI_50wdfg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1348578593',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnsley have sacked head coach Markuss Schopp following their 2-1 defeat away to Bristol City at the weekend. The seventh straight defeat left Barnsley four points from safety and only three points above Derby County, who suffered a 12-point deduction earlier this season Schopp&#8217;s sacking is the third in the Championship this season, following Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":603887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33,32],"tags":[1721,8937],"class_list":["post-603861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-barnsley","tag-markus-schopp"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}