At Borussia Mönchengladbach everything is turned on the left. A new sports director is needed, scoring anyway. And what about interim coach Eugen Polanski?
In front of the orphaned parking lot for the sports director fluttered after the next bang Borussia Mönchengladbach A red-white-red-red-barrier strap in the wind. For weeks it has been on the stadium of the Bundesliga-Connected, the scenery on Wednesday therefore fit well into the current picture. After the farewell to Roland Virkus, construction sites are enough for the remaining leadership team of the crisis club.
For the first time in ten years, Borussia is in 18th place in the table, only coach Gerardo Seoane and then Virkus said goodbye within two weeks. The battered association had to “set itself up differently for the future orientation in the sporting area,” said President Rainer Bonhof that the bodies agreed.
Book stays in Elversberg
The only question is: how exactly? Eugen Polanski, so much has been certain since the Virkus, will remain “bis-on-second trainer” and will also sit on the bench in the important home game against SC Freiburg (7.30 p.m./live in the sports show ticker) on Sunday. In addition to Polanski, a place remains free. “We will now go through possible candidates in peace,” said Bonhof of the “Bild” on the Succession of the Virkus.
Names are traded enough. This was mainly true for Nils-Ole Book, who had led the SV Elversberg from the regional league to the relegation to the Bundesliga and whose name has been haunted by the Borussia Park for weeks. But on Wednesday Book in Elversberg extended his contract.
Marinko Jurendic, who had to leave FC Augsburg at the end of May, is apparently an issue. And then there are the usual suspects, from Jonas Boldt to Fredi Bobic to Alexander Rosen.
Sandmöller as Transitional solution?
Borussia could now use a stroke of luck like Max Eberl. Today’s Bavaria sports director was promoted by the young director in 2008 – as well as Virkus to Eberl’s farewell in 2022. Today’s young chief is called Mirko Sandmöller and would be at least for a transition. A fixed solution should still be found quickly, after all, the important winter transfer window must be prepared for the impending struggle for relegation.
The issue of action is now in the hands of Bonhof, the rest of the presidium about ex-NRW Minister of Minister Hannelore Kraft, Uwe Kamps and Roger Brandts as well as finance boss Stefan Stegemann. “Gladbach now has to make nails with heads quickly, but above all the decision has to be a good one,” said ex-Borusse Lothar Matthäus on Wednesday at “Sky sport“However, the team is also challenged, the youngest 4: 6 against Eintracht Frankfurt let all alarm bells shrill.
Steamed mood
So what makes hope? Perhaps the look back: When Borussia was the last after five match days in September 2015, coach Lucien Favre went and André Schubert came. Six victories in a row followed and at the end of the season the qualification for the Champions League. The problem: The boldest optimists don’t even believe in a similar catch -up in Gladbach.
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