{"id":29786,"date":"2026-05-20T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/toulouse-bid-for-motherwell-manager-jens-berthel-askou\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:10:06","slug":"toulouse-bid-for-motherwell-manager-jens-berthel-askou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/toulouse-bid-for-motherwell-manager-jens-berthel-askou\/","title":{"rendered":"Toulouse bid for Motherwell manager Jens Berthel Askou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Toulouse have made an official approach to Motherwell as they aim to make manager Jens Berthel Askou their new head coach.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Askou led the Scottish Premiership club to a fourth-placed finish with victory at Hibernian last Saturday, securing European football for the Lanarkshire side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Toulouse, meanwhile, ended their Ligue 1 season in 10th after beating Lyon on Sunday, a game which brought an end to Spanish boss Carles Martinez Novell&#8217;s three-year tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Negotiations are currently ongoing between the French side and Motherwell, but Fir Park sources have told BBC Scotland that nothing has been agreed regarding Askou&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Danish coach has been heavily praised for implementing what many have described as the most attractive football in Scotland since his arrival last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Askou&#8217;s side have broken defensive club records without restricting their brave, attacking play, which has ultimately attracted interest from Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj4plnkz2z4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toulouse have made an official approach to Motherwell as they aim to make manager Jens Berthel Askou their new head coach. Askou led the Scottish Premiership club to a fourth-placed finish with victory at Hibernian last Saturday, securing European football for the Lanarkshire side. Toulouse, meanwhile, ended their Ligue 1 season in 10th after beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29788,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29786\/revisions\/29788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}