Aad de Mos - Thanks for nothing: the Dutchman was allowed to run the team for only six months before being shown the door. After the departure of father figure Otto, Bremen ambitiously presented their new coach on July 1, 1995. De Mos was supposed to carry on what Rehhagel had built. Vice-president Klaus-Dieter Fischer and president Dr.
Franz Boehmert could hardly stop raving at the unveiling, but they rejoiced too soon. Bremen quickly discovered that the Dutchman only enriched the club in one area: headline production. After the first half of the season Werder had only three wins and sat a sobering fifteenth.
What sealed his fate was not just the poor points total. In an interview with Der Spiegel, de Mos talked himself into trouble, claiming that he had nothing to do in this frozen football country and that nothing would ever become of Bremen. He was dismissed without notice for conduct damaging to the club, sued both Der Spiegel and Werder, tried to force his reinstatement through the courts, and eventually went home with a severance package of one million marks.
Thanks for that.