Lothar Matthaus believes Germany head coach Joachim Low should be sacked if the national team underperform at the European Championship finals next summer.
Matthaus, who lifted the World Cup as captain in 1990, also insisted everyone at the German Football Association (DFB) who backed him should follow him out of the door.
Low has been in charge of the Germans since 2006 and led them to World Cup glory in 2014, but has found himself under increasing pressure after humiliation in the 2018 tournament and a run of disappointing results this year.
Germany have only won three of their eight matches in 2020 and were thrashed 6-0 by Spain in their final fixture of the year.
Despite the run of underwhelming results the DFB confirmed the 60-year-old would remain in the hot seat for the upcoming delayed Euro 2020 finals, and German legend Matthaus says Low should not be the only one out of a job if things don’t go as planned next summer.
He told Suddeutsche Zeitung: ‘If the European Championship doesn’t go as we would expect from the quality of players that we have, then it is not only Low who will have to go, but all of those who decided that he should stay. They must also bear the consequences.