Lieberknecht “fits ambitions”
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The 1. FC Kaiserslautern caused a surprise on Tuesday evening with the dismissal of Markus Begin. Although at least the relegation rank is still within reach, the 50-year-old had to go and make room for the former Darmstadt coach Torsten Lieberknecht. Managing Director Thomas Hengen founded this decision on Wednesday at “Sky”.
“We have not made any development in the past few weeks. The trend was not the way we all imagined it. The team’s non-explosion was questionable,” said the 50-year-old. Most recently, the FCK had lost three games in a row and only won one of the last six. Above all, more playful had been hoped for.
“You should never be guided directly from emotions. You have to let everything sink immediately after the game. We were in the analysis on Sunday and Monday and have discussed one or the other topic and went through how we deal with the current situation. In the end, the decision was there, we want to do something new again and bring the team into a situation that she attacks again,” says Hengen.
Although Kaiserslautern did not go into the season with the goal, the claims have increased. With a squad value of 34.3 million euros, the FCK currently has the most sixth -worthy team in the 2nd league, at the beginning of the season it was still 18.7 million euros, which at that time corresponded to eleven. On the one hand, the increase can be explained with the development of players such as Ragnar Ache (from € 3 million to € 7 million) or Luca Sirch (from 250 thousand to € 1.8 million), which is responsible for the beginning. On the other hand, the transfers were also added to Tim Breithaupt (23), Maximilian Bauer (25) or Faride Alidou (23) in winter – the effect hoped for last fizzled out.
The PS present in the squad should now bring Lieberknecht, the Eintracht Braunschweig 2012/13 to the Bundesliga. “We have gone through many, many profiles and in the overall constellation Torsten Lieberknecht was very far ahead to say that it fits perfectly into the area, it fits perfectly with the ambitions and in the next four weeks it is important to get full focus, full passion, full throttle ahead. Simply to give the team the feeling that everything is possible. Because we know that we are not only able to provide any details about the contract constellation, it is not just as a firefighting man. Here, but also longer. “