Dick Advocaat – Unsuccessful, Yet He Refused Severance: The Dutchman was in charge between November 2004 and April 2005. As Holger Fach’s successor, Advocaat was meant to calm the club down, but the opposite happened. The so-called department store of the West spent 3.5 million euros on seven winter signings, yet Advocaat failed to extract the squad’s potential. In 18 matches he collected a meager 18 points.\n\nAt one point the gap to the relegation places shrank to a miserable single point.
As fans began loudly calling for reserve coach Horst Köppel and even a bomb threat surfaced, Advocaat drew the line, resigned immediately, and — because of the poor record — even waived his severance package.