Former Staff: Lacombe sacked by Monaco

On borrowed time at AS Monaco since several weeks, Guy Lacombe was finally sacked after the Principality’s team was humiliated at Chambéry on Saturday (CFA2, 1-1 a.e.T, 2-3 on penalties).

Weakened by poor results in the League (AS Monaco is currently seventeenth in the league, only one point above Caen, the first team in the relegation zone), Lacombe was eventually let go this Monday. Following a correct first season (eighth in Ligue 1, Coupe de France final), the moustached manager was at the centre of controversy since several months in Monaco because of some of his sportive choices, in the management of his squad as well as in the recruitment.

Saturday, after the lacklustre elimination of his team, Lacombe had preferred to complain about injustices, protesting that a goal was unfairly – according to him – refused to his team, and accusing the media to trigger a “populist drift”, deciding that “if the media is there, the little teams have got to win”.

Guy Lacombe had arrived in Monaco with Alain Ravera (assistant manager), André Amitrano (goalkeepers coach) and Christian Schmidt (fitness coach). No information has filtered yet regarding their situation.