By Michael Oti Adjei BBC Sport, Accra

Hearts of Oak will have a new coach for the Champion's League

Ghana's former African Champions League winners Hearts of Oak have sacked their coach Herbert Addo.

The move comes just weeks before they launch their campaign to regain the title they won in 2000.

A club statement described "protracted technical and tactical inconsitencies" as the reasons for the decision.

It went on to say that the club needed to preserve the "unique free flowing and free scoring football that has become a trademark of Hearts."

Addo joined Hearts two years ago and lead them to a sixth straight league title in his first campaign.

But the club failed to get beyond the group stages of the Champions League the following year and subsequently relinquished the domestic title to arch-rivals Asante Kotoko.

Defeat to Kotoko in a pre-season tournament at the weekend marked the final straw.

Addo has been temporarily replaced by his assistant and former Hearts' great, Offei Ansah.

But the club are negotiating with the former Asante Kotoko coach Ernst Middendorp to take charge of the club.