Report: Hamburg sack manager Mirko Slomka

Mirko Slomka has paid the price for Hamburg's dreadful start to the Bundesliga season, as the 47-year-old manager was reportedly sacked by the German club on Monday.

According to Bild, Hamburg boss Dietmar Beiersdorfer held an "emergency meeting" with Slomka to discuss the manager's fate, and it ended with the latter being relieved of his duties.

Hamburg sit at the bottom of the Bundesliga table with a lone point after the league's first three matchdays. The club, which barely survived relegation last season, fell 3-0 at home to newly-promoted side Paderborn at the end of August, and - in a bizarre twist of irony - fell 2-0 to Slomka's former team Hannover 96 over the weekend, a result that likely sealed his fate.

Whoever replaces Slomka at the Hamburg helm will be the club's fourth manager in less than a year.