Barcelona (dpa -Afx) – Despite the disappointing season, Borussia Dortmund’s sports director wants to go into the coming season with Sebastian Kehl as sports director and Niko Kovac as a coach. “This is still the clear goal,” said Ricken in the interview of the Funke Medien Group. He reported “intensive cooperation” in particular with Kehl, the contract of which the BVB had only extended until January to 2027.
However, Kehl has been criticized for some time because of the composition of the squad during the table. “When we extended Sebastian’s contract, it was important to me that we would get the maximum out of the season and go into the future together. I clearly expressed that at the time. And nothing changed about this goal,” said Ricken.
Much praise for Kovac’s work
The Champions League finalist of the previous year had separated as a trainer just a few weeks after the contract extension with Kehl from Nuri Sahin. Although the Dortmund also clearly lagged behind the real goals under his successor Kovac, Ricken praised his work very much.
“We have the best defensive two-way battle rate of the league under Niko’s management. We go with the intensive runs. We earn more chances, let it go much less and reduced our goals,” said the ex-international. The Treaty of Kovac in Dortmund is still valid until the summer of 2026./LAP/DP/ZB
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