Lens finished second in Ligue 1 last season and won the Coupe de France.
Cahuzac left Lorient, where he had been Olivier Pantaloni’s assistant, at the end of last season to return to Lens, where he had finished his playing career before working as Franck Haise’s assistant in the 2022–23 campaign.
Speaking in the summer, the club’s sporting director, Jean-Louis Leca, said they were “not a Champions League club” and that an eighth-place finish in Ligue 1 would represent success.
Having taken charge of just six games, Toppmöller is Lens’s shortest-serving manager since the second world war.
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Lens finished second in Ligue 1 last season and won the Coupe de France.
The lights dimmed as the players made their entrance and Cahuzac sat alone, leaning forward on a seat that Dino Toppmöller would have occupied if not for a turn of events last week.
Cahuzac’s appointment, much like his entrance in Monaco, had a stealthy quality, as if he had always been there and the switching of the lights was confirmation of his presence. Cahuzac left Lorient, where he had been Olivier Pantaloni’s assistant, at the end of last season to return to Lens, where he had finished his playing career before working as Franck Haise’s assistant in the 2022–23 campaign.
Lens were not expected to soar as high this season. Speaking in the summer, the club’s sporting director, Jean-Louis Leca, said they were “not a Champions League club” and that an eighth-place finish in Ligue 1 would represent success. Toppmöller’s first game in charge brought silverware as Lens beat PSG in the Trophée des Champions; his first Ligue 1 game was a 5-2 win over Auxerre; and his side took all three points away to Slavia Prague in their first Champions League game – not a bad start after a summer of upheaval and the departure of several players.
Hence the shock last week when it was announced that the German had left the club by mutual consent. Having taken charge of just six games, Toppmöller is Lens’s shortest-serving manager since the second world war.
Lens tried to sack one of them, Nelson Morgado, but Toppmöller stayed loyal to his assistant and refused to accept his dismissal.
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