Dressing Room Division the Reason Behinds Ancelotti Sacking

The club's hierarchy held a meeting to discuss Ancelotti's future on Thursday afternoon and have announced that the 58-year-old has now left the Bavarians. A statement on the club's website said: "Following an internal analysis in Munich on Thursday 28 September 2017, FC Bayern München have announced the club is to part company with head coach Carlo Ancelotti with immediate effect.

Sky Italy reporter Alessandro Alciato, who collaborated with Ancelotti on his autobiography, said to Sky in Italy: "He was considering leaving the club after what happened last night and was discussing this hypothesis with his staff when the news of the sacking arrived.

"Clearly the locker room was divided. The big names of the club were not happy that they were not always playing and in Munich this was not accepted also by the fans.

"If an important player doesn't train or play well he is out, but some players like [Thomas] Muller, [Arjen] Robben, [Franck] Ribery and others did not accept this. They had got to a dead end."

Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge talked of "consequences" after the defeat to PSG.

"It's a loss we have to talk about, we have to analyse, from which we have to draw consequences in clear text form," Rummenigge said to FCBayern.tv, "I think what we saw this evening was not Bayern Munich. I think we all agree on that.

"If I take a look to the right or left, then there is nothing to misunderstand or to interpret wrong. I think it's important to turn things around after this loss, to present as Bayern Munich and to show we are a team, [the one] which performed well in Europe and in Germany last year. That's where we have to continue."

Ancelotti was forced to defend his team selection after the defeat having left Ribery, Robben and Mats Hummels on the bench, while Jerome Boateng was not included in the squad.

"I don't think my team selection was risky," he said. "I thought a lot about what the best team to play was. I know I will get criticism, that's fine. I thought it was a good line-up for this game."

Credit - Skysports

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