Dortmund sack manager Lucien Favre after 5-1 Stuttgart thrashing with Pochettino among early favourites to take over
BORUSSIA DORTMUND have sacked manager Lucien Favre following the club's 5-1 thrashing to Stuttgart.
Former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino has already been installed among the early favourites to take over the Bundesliga giants.
Favre had guided BVB into the Champions League knock-out stages but poor domestic form had put him under pressure.
And the club's humiliating defeat to newly-promoted Stuttgart at HOME has now proved to be the final straw.
Favre himself had labelled the loss, their fourth this season, a 'disaster'.
The result compounded Dortmund's poor start to the season, which has included three losses in their last five games.
While Borussia Monchengladbach chief Marco Rose and RB Salzburg's Jesse Marsch have also been named as potential targets.
Pochettino meanwhile will likely be one of the frontrunners having been out of work for over a year since being sacked by Tottenham.
Since then, the Argentine has been linked with a host of jobs including Manchester United, Real Madrid and Zenit St Petersburg.