According to media reports, Hertha BSC has released coach Sandro Schwarz – Pal Dardai should take over.
Hertha suffered a 5-2 defeat at fellow competitor Schalke 04 on Friday (April 14, 2023). The team slipped to 18th place. The successor should be Pal Dardai, who has already coached the Berliners twice.
For Dardai, Hertha record player, it will be the third rescue mission. Dardai kept the club in the Bundesliga in the 2014/15 and 2020/21 seasons. The last collaboration ended in November 2021. Dardai’s son Marton is also in Hertha’s squad. The 21-year-old was in the starting eleven when Schalke went bankrupt. Dardai and Hertha BSC still have six games to avert the worst-case scenario.
| Gameday | Bochum | Stuttgart | Schalke | Hertha BSC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
29 | Wolfsburg (H) | Augsburg (A) | Friborg (A) | Bremen (H) |
30 | Dortmund (H) | Gladbach (H) | Bremen (H) | Bavaria (A) |
31 | Gladbach (A) | Hertha (A) | Mainz (A) | Stuttgart (H) |
32 | Augsburg (H) | Leverkusen (H) | Bavaria (A) | Cologne (A) |
33 | Hertha (A) | Mainz (A) | Frankfurt (H) | Bochum (H) |
34 | Leverkusen (H) | Hoffenheim (H) | Leipzig (A) | Wolfsburg (A) |
Black under criticism after six games without a win
After the defeat in Gelsenkirchen on Friday evening, Schwarz had rhetorically prepared for his expulsion. “That’s realistic. I’m responsible”, he said on the DAZN microphone. Hertha is threatened with the first relegation since 2012.
be it ‘legitimate and the club’s responsibility to be concerned’said Black. Six games in a row without a win, a frightening system failure of the complete defense in the “final” at the bottom of the table – arguments for continued employment could hardly be found.
Magath saved Hertha in the preseason
In view of the financially precarious situation, there is not much leeway at Hertha for another, certainly more expensive trainer emergency solution than Dardai. The influence of the new investor 777 Partners will also be important. The announced 100 million euros of funds are already planned for the unavoidable debt repayment.
In the previous season, Felix Magath took over for the end of the season and ultimately saved the Berliners from falling into second division in the relegation against Hamburger SV (0:1/2:0). Black was then hired as head coach.