{"id":467408,"date":"2023-10-27T10:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467408"},"modified":"2023-10-27T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:01:28","slug":"pool-legend-fowler-sacked-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pool-legend-fowler-sacked-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool legend Fowler sacked in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian 2<sup>nd<\/sup> tier team Al Qadsiah dismissed head coach Robbie Fowler today, just 4 months after appointing the ex-Liverpool forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Robbie Fowler bizarrely sacked and replaced in minutes by Saudi club despite being top of the league and unbeaten. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p8upemvjX5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/p8upemvjX5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SPORTbible (@sportbible) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportbible\/status\/1717855316295979120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Robbie, who is the 8<sup>th<\/sup> highest goalscorer in the history of the EPL and played 26 matches for England, became Al Qadsiah&#8217;s manager in June.<\/p>\n<p>Al Qadsiah are in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in the Saudi First Division League and are only 1 point behind leader Al Orobah after 8 games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The side appreciates the coach&#8217;s work and professionalism during his time with our team and wishes him all the best in his future managerial career,&#8221; Al Qadsiah posted about the sacking.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Arabian club triumphed in 6 and drew in 2 of their opening 8 matches under the English head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Seville and Marseille head coach Michel Gonzalez will replace Fowler. Robbie coached Thai side Muangthong United, Australia&#8217;s Brisbane Roar, and Indian side East Bengal before being appointed in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian 2nd tier team Al Qadsiah dismissed head coach Robbie Fowler today, just 4 months after appointing the ex-Liverpool forward. Robbie Fowler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467409,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21913,16722],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[21915,17887,21916],"acf":{"announce":"Robbie spent only 4 months in charge of the Saudi Arabian side.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467411,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467408\/revisions\/467411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467408"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467408"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}