by Arneb » Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:41 pm
And we've fired the coach (the guy on the pitch) and the manager (the guy in the suit making the decisions for hiring players and coatches - AFAIK, these position are usually united in the "manager" over on your side of the Channel).
It was about time, for the manager more than the coach. Michael Preetz (still Hertha's all-time top scorer as a player) was responsible for most of the club policy during the last twelve years, and he has very, very little to show for it - especially in the last two seasons. He formed a team that was the laughingstock of the League and was always struggling for survival before Mr. Rich And Generous came along, and he has formed a team that is the laughing stock of the League and is struggling for survival now, after something like a 150 million in cash.
I have sympathy for a coach who wasn't able to drag his team up from the quagmire of a dysfunctional club, but in the end, he was unable to to form a bunch of players, many of whom are highly talented and some of whom - Piatek, Cunha, Guendouzi - were hired for big money into a football team. As I said a few pages up, the anti-Freiburg, anti-Munich, and anti-Liverpool. It was a tall order doing it in this nutty surroundings, but he could have done way better.
Arne Friedrich, former Hertha defender and Germany international and current CFO will take over the management stuff. As a coach, they'll likely hire Pál Dardai again - you remember, the plucky Hungarian former Hertha defensive midfielder who kept us afloat after the last promotion, with his work ethic, good humour, and in spite of always fucking up the second half of the season. The one they shoved aside 'cuz Big City Big Club Big Big and who contracted in advance to return to the youth academy after a sabbatical. That one. Another has-been.
It's not looking good for our count, folks.
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