Bobic on power struggle at Hertha BSC: Club asks “that it be dimmed down”

Managing director “thoughtful”

Sports director Fredi Bobic is struggling with the public power struggle at Hertha BSC. The conclusion of the 50-year-old after less than a year at the Berlin Bundesliga club is also rather sobering. “I haven’t found anything successful yet, I have to be honest,” he said in an interview with the “Tagesspiegel” when asked about his greatest success so far during his tenure: “Success will only come in the long run. It remains to be seen whether everything worked or whether I failed. Very easily. I’m completely realistic about that.”

Hertha is currently in 16th place in the table. At Felix Magath’s debut, when the new coach was unable to be present himself, the club from the capital managed to beat TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 3-0. After his corona quarantine, he resumed training with the team on Thursday.

His return to the pitch was accompanied by background noise at Hertha BSC. A power struggle is raging between investor Lars Windhorst and President Werner Gegenbauer – and it’s been publicly held. He speaks openly and clearly with both of them, emphasized Bobic. “For me, the club always comes first, not the person. Both know that. I want the best for the club. And from the club’s point of view, I understand the request that the whole thing be dimmed down a bit until relegation.” The club is currently producing “a lot of volume,” said Bobic: “That makes me think too, and I will also address them internally. My motto will always be: talk to each other, don’t talk about each other.”

Conflict at Hertha on a personal level – Bobic tries to “clarify”

Windhorst had called on the club members on Sunday to apply for the deselection of the current management team around Gegenbauer at the May meeting. “Especially when it’s something personal, it’s often about minor things,” said Bobic to the Zoff, which now seems to have arrived on a personal level. “But anyone who is familiar with the media power of football knows that even trivial things can generate a lot of volume here. I’ll try to explain that.”

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