The football year 2021 is history and the Bundesliga is going into its short Christmas break after 17 match days. Time for the big review of the year sport.de-Editorial staff.
Today we are selecting the biggest exciters of the past twelve months, including the performance of the German national team and the coaching chaos at Werder Bremen. We are also looking at the biggest transfer flops of the summer. A supposed leader of Hertha BSC and a new addition to FC Bayern are not doing well.
What was the biggest excitement of the football year 2021?
Christian Schenzel: The end of Hansi Flick at Bayern. I still don’t understand why Munich didn’t resolve the situation simply by kicking Hasan Salihamidzic out of the door. To this day, he has not shown that he has an exceptional knack for transfers. Nagelsmann is a good alternative, but Flick was the greatest stroke of luck and the absolute ideal cast.
Heiko Lütkehus: The coaching debacle in Bremen! Florian Kohfeldt should have been released MUCH earlier in the relegation season. Holding him after several days of reflection in April, only to pull the ripcord three competitive games later, was an oath of revelation for the club management. With the alleged vaccination certificate forger Markus Anfang, those responsible around Frank Baumann were wrong again, but you can hardly blame them for this.
Chris Rohdenburg: The European Championship from the German national team. Not even in the sense that somehow no one expected that the DFB team would not make it to the final in the last major tournament under Joachim Löw. But how uninspired the team played (excluding the 4-2 win against Portugal) shocked me. The awkward interview questions that Löw asked after the end of his era (“That ends well, all well. Or that ends well, not all well?”) Were hardly noticed.
Gerrit Kleiböhmer: The Ballon d’Or choice. Robert Lewandowski has been shooting the stars for years, but one person always wins: Lionel Messi. What does the Bayern star still have to do to convince the jury? Bring even more titles to Munich? Break another all-time goal record? A ridiculous event.
Which top transfer disappointed you?
Chris Rohdenburg: Marcel Sabitzer. From the undisputed regular place at RB Leipzig to the sinking of the German record champions. That is kind of a shame even for the Bayern fan who has confessed since childhood. I’m sure: Sabitzer has long since put on the RB bed linen.
Heiko Lütkehus: Kevin-Prince Boateng. The hype fueled by Hertha BSC about the return of the prodigal son was great, but the 34-year-old has so far shown practically nothing. It seems more to me as if the mascot Herthinho had a human counterpart in Boateng.
Gerrit Kleiböhmer: In the end, after defensive boss Dayot Upamecano and successful coach Julian Nagelsmann, the captain also left the (sinking) ship RB Leipzig and switched to FC Bayern. With Marcel Sabitzer, however, it was already clear in advance that he was threatened with a reservist existence in Munich. With his transfer, he not only demonstrated a lack of ambitions, but also widened the gap between champions and runner-up.
Christian Schenzel: Top transfer is a big word in this context, but why Jérôme Boateng chose Lyon is and remains a mystery to me. From FC Bayern to a club that was once successful in Ligue 1? Sure, the food is good and the weather is nice. But otherwise? There must have been better options for Boateng.
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