ISTANBUL, Sept 27 (AFP) - Former Real Madrid coach Vicente Del Bosque, who has had a disastrous start this season with Istanbul's Besiktas, will be called to account Monday by the team's executive board, a club official said late Sunday.
Del Bosque, who was sacked from Real last year despite winning two national and two European titles in three years, was hailed as "the most qualified foreign coach ever to work in Turkey" on his arrival here.
He replaced Romanian Mircea Lucescu and was seen as the saviour of the country's oldest club.
But Besiktas have yet to win a game in their expensively refurbished historic Dolmabahce stadium this season and the final straw was a 3-2 home defeat Saturday to minnows BB Ankara.
The loss left fans baying for Del Bosque's resignation and booing the team as the defeat left the side languishing in 13th place, 13 points off co-leaders Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor, after only seven matches.
Besiktas hosts Norway's Bodo Glimt on Thursday in the return leg of a UEFA Cup first round tie that ended 1-1 away.
Club spokesman Kivanc Oktay said a decision was unlikely to made public until after that game.
"We have a very important match on Thursday and we are concentrating on that," Oktay told the specialist football channel Lig TV late Sunday after the club's board held a full day's meeting.
"But we will call Del Bosque in on Monday and see what his views on the situation are."
Del Bosque was in tears Saturday night after the loss to BB Ankara -- whose avowed aim for the season was to remain in the first division -- as he admitted that "this is a very bad day for Besiktas."
The Spaniard has come under ceaseless fire from critics for everything from his insistence on a 4-4-2 formation, which has not worked, to leaving stars such as Romanian Daniel Pancu and Norwegian John Carew on the bench.
Del Bosque's troubles come at a time when Jose Antonio Camacho, his successor at Real Madrid, has resigned after just as bad a start in the Spanish league.
Turkey's lively sports media have been insistently reporting the Del Bosque is a serious candidate for the job.