MOSCOW (AP) — Russian club Terek Grozny has lashed out at coach Ruud Gullit’s partying lifestyle, and issued the Dutchman a fiery ultimatum: Win Tuesday’s game or lose your job.
A long and scathing statement on the website of the club in the Chechen capital says Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the club’s president, is “extremely dissatisfied” with Gullit’s 12-game tenure, with the club in 14th place out of 16 teams in the Premier League.
The statement says Kadyrov will fire Gullit unless he wins Tuesday’s match at Amkar Perm, one place above Terek.
It says Terek as a team “has never looked so hopeless” and that Gullit is distracted by “bars and discos.”
Gullit, a former World Player of the Year, joined Terek in January on an 18-month contract.
