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Drama20 Sept 20261241 views

CLEAN SHEET, THEN 8,911–0! LORIENT BOSS HIT BY 49-HOUR COMEBACK BID

LeTemile wants the throne back, Moskva Red stage another Bonani-Kijan rematch and Discord fears incumbents can be kept permanently twitching.

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Skez

Soccerverse Times' Discord & community man — a proud Scouser and die-hard Liverpool fan with his ear to the chat and a nose for drama.

CLEAN SHEET, THEN 8,911–0! LORIENT BOSS HIT BY 49-HOUR COMEBACK BID

surl kept a clean sheet at Marseille on Saturday. By Sunday night, he was losing the Lorient manager vote 8,911–0.

Welcome to Soccerverse, where fourth place and four goals conceded all season apparently buy you about as much security as a chocolate padlock.

Forty-nine hours in charge

Former boss LeTemile managed Lorient for 76 matches, recording 42 wins, 23 draws and 11 defeats. That reign ended on Friday when surl, backed 7,620–0 in the previous ballot, took charge.

Just 49 hours and 36 minutes after surl’s appointment, another contest opened. The live state now reads:

  • LeTemile — 8,911 votes
  • surl — 0 votes

LeTemile is also Lorient’s largest disclosed Influence holder with 8,911. The ballot closes on Wednesday at 18:32 UTC.

This is not a footballing crisis. Lorient are fourth in FRA Division 1, with 27 points from 15 games and a division-best-looking defensive record of only four conceded. surl’s sole recorded match since taking over was that 0–0 at Marseille.

The rankings add another twist: LeTemile is #141 on the tactician table, ahead of surl at #169. It is an immediate comeback attempt, not some mystery sacking whisper.

Seven-hour throne in Moskva

Moskva Red’s bench makes Lorient look stable.

Kijan beat Bonani 494–302 in a vote that ended on Thursday evening and took charge 54 minutes later. His reign lasted just 7 hours, 14 minutes and one second. Bonani returned after a further 15-minute vacancy.

Now they are doing it again. The latest ballot has Bonani leading Kijan 180–0, with voting due to end early Tuesday.

Bonani is ranked #146, while Kijan sits at #159. Results hardly demand panic: Moskva Red are fifth in RUS Division 1 with 29 points from 15 matches, an 8-5-2 record and a 62.09M SVC squad.

That is two appointments, one lightning reign and another live rematch in barely four days. A managerial merry-go-round with the safety bar removed.

Discord finds a real struggler

The clearest results-based distress flare came from snaus74, asking for an autopsy on the club he called Amazulu/Dreams—listed in live game data as Durban Stamford Hill.

And see why Amazulu is performing so badly.

— snaus74

The numbers are grim: Snaus_ZAF’s side sit 18th in ZAF Division 1, with one win, ten defeats, four goals scored and 22 conceded. They have lost six straight league matches, while Snaus_ZAF ranks #209 among tacticians.

Yet there is no active manager proposal there. That is genuine performance pressure, but not an official hot seat.

Discord’s broader anxiety is about the voting machinery itself. In Spanish chat, xisculinsf.c. worried that some investors seek manager offers simply to retain the power to remove an incumbent later:

Hay inversores que se ofrecen el puesto de manager solo para poder echar al mánager actual cuando quieran.

— xisculinsf.c.

That translates to investors putting themselves forward so they can eject the current boss whenever they choose. It is community suspicion, not evidence of anyone’s motive at Lorient or Moskva Red—but the fear is easy to understand.

The live proposals board contains 31 manager contests or applications. Across the latest seven-day archival window, Soccerverse logged 309 new-manager events at 255 clubs and 98 departure events at 98 clubs.

So who is on the hot seat? surl has the biggest live deficit. Bonani faces the most persistent rival. Snaus_ZAF owns the ugliest form. And with 407 appointment-or-departure events in a week, every other gaffer should probably keep the coat within grabbing distance.

Related Topics

DramaLorientMoskva RedDurban Stamford HillsurlLeTemile

In the tables

FRA Division 1

FRA · Division 0 · Season 4

#ClubPGDPts
1ParisJanca24+2948
2MarseilleElChapito24+644
3BrestFelpa3524+741
4LorientLeTemile24+540
5ReimsReims24039
6Lillebalobeast24+937
7MonacoSVPiccolo24+436
8ToulouseLePhesile24+336
9Rennestfunk5524+1535
10LensHazart24+734
11LyonKloV224+733
12AngersSenenZambrano9824030
13StrasbourgRoland1nh0FinalBoss24-329
14NiceIyke24-128
15Le Havrenokey24-525
16MetzNwaloA24-1022
17OrlyTotti24-1122
18AuxerreCr4zYCult_XXV24-1121
19Saint-ÈtienneJohnelo24-3020
20AnnecyRalek324-2118

RUS Division 1

RUS · Division 0 · Season 4

#ClubPGDPts
1ZenithZenitStPeterburg24+3653
2Krasnodarcarlosaspin24+2850
3Moskva RedCenterback24+1948
4Moskva BlueKalashnikov24+2447
5Moskva Red&BlueCosmicWave24+1946
6EkaterinburgArshavin24+538
7Moskva GreenBabar24+837
8SamaraRolandinhoRusia24+1036
9Nizhniy Novgorodyubi24+334
10NovorossiyskForde5w24+433
11UlyanovskIvers0n524-1632
12ZhigulyovskVioletta24-230
13Rostov-na-DonuHelloRoan24029
14GroznyiKlopp1024-328
15Kaliningradrahul7724-1327
16A Makhachkalammircor24-1524
17Voronezhogzyx24-1821
18KhimkiNakata24-2719
19LeningradKanarche24-2819
20KhabarovskGreenFuryx524-3411

League standings for the clubs in this story.

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