24 hours after club president Evangelos Marinakis fined his under-performing players and ordered them to go on holiday, Olympiakos coach Oscar Garcia announced on Tuesday that he has resigned.
“I decided, with the agreement of the club, to finish our cooperation today to give the team more time to prepare for the next season,” said Garcia, who spent only three months in the job.
Marinakis, who also owns English second-tier side Nottingham Forest, acted on Monday after Olympiakos fell nine points off Greek Super League leaders AEK Athens following a 1-1 draw on Sunday with Levadiakos.
With just four games to play, that virtually ended Olympiakos’s hopes of winning a record eighth straight title.
Marinakis vowed to call up players from the club’s under-20 team to play the remainder of the season, while he fined the first-team squad 400,000 euros ($490,000).
Garcia’s brief reign was a turbulent one.
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