Too bad Arminia! Sympathetic club, can insiders report why this crash happened? Money was already tight in League 1, but they were inventive and the longer-distance football was also attractive, albeit not highly scoring! Was it the many managerial changes? Possibly back to the roots of Benno M.?
By the way: Peter Neururer would be free, or Quälix M.
In any case, the most important thing is that there is no longer any self-confidence in the squad. The boys have been getting their face constantly for a year, the environment is constantly irritated.
With Brunner, Pieper, Nilsson and Ortega, the strongest player in the squad, the entire core defense actually left us on a BuLi level for free. Apart from Klos and Prietl, no one had been in the squad for more than 1.5 years at the beginning of the season. The squad has great individual quality, but is unbalanced. Hüsing has been hired as chief of defence, but he is more passive than actively defending. So there is no cement and the rest of the IV speaks broken English to each other. Other planned top performers such as Prietl do not work either. 1.5 years ago he was the strongest running player in the BuLi, now a shadow of himself.
The signing of coach Forte was a huge misunderstanding. One can assume that nothing relevant was rehearsed in the summer preparation. So you started with 4 defeats and had to change the coach at the beginning of the season.
Daniel Scherning, an inexperienced trainer, was brought in for this and transferred around 400k to Osnabrück, although he was about to be fired there. Since then there have been glimmers of hope, but you play consistently and with many individual mistakes. Scherning is okay as a coach, but his idea of playing deep and switching quickly doesn’t go with the quality of play in midfield. In one game, Robin Hack could be heard something like this: ‘We just wi*** the sh*** forward.’ Well, Scherning was about to be dismissed in the first half of the season, but then the results got better. Despite this, the vast majority of fans have noticed that in the long term it will not work with coaches and player material. During the winter break, the DSC then bought its assistant coach from Osnabrück for around 250k. There was probably no money for the announced 6 or a reinforcement in the storm (our strikers scored 11 goals together).
At the beginning of the second half of the season we had 3 6-point games and only got 3 points from them and played miserably. Braunschweig was officially the most important game of the season. Here you lose a 3:0 lead and sometimes play like an amateur.
Now is such a time when you no longer know what another coach is supposed to do because the team is a grab bag and 100% insecure.