Borussia Mönchengladbach: Coach Farke draws a partly positive balance

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Coach Daniel Farke avoided questions about his future at Borussia Mönchengladbach and surprised and promoted himself with a largely satisfactory conclusion of the season. “We definitely didn’t do 100 percent what we wanted. But we are also far from rating it as a horror season or a crash,” said Farke at the press conference for the last Bundesliga game against FC Augsburg.

Last season Gladbach finished tenth with 45 points under Adi Hütter, while Borussia is currently in eleventh place with 40 points. The last time the “foals” did worse was in 2010/11, when Lucien Favre only managed to save them in the relegation. “We wanted to stop the negative trend before the season. We managed to do that quite well under difficult conditions. We couldn’t turn him around either, but that wasn’t the aim either,” said Farke.

“We definitely didn’t want to have another tremor season. The target was a solid season in the second third of the table,” said the coach. In terms of squad value, Gladbach is in the top third of the Bundesliga with €223 million, so no club has a greater discrepancy between squad value and league rank. “To be honest, I would have liked to have had a place or two better. But we were not even in danger of relegation. And as expected, we were also a bit far from the international places.”

Most expensive Bundesliga squads: These were the teams that paid the most

18 VfL Bochum | Squad value: €47.8 million | Purchase value: €2.8 million

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The purchase value is made up of all the fees paid by a club for the players in the current squad. Players currently on loan do not count toward purchase value.

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17 Schalke 04 | Squad value: €60.4 million | Purchase value: €8.4 million

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16 1.FC Cologne | Squad value: €101.9 million | Purchase value: €28.8 million

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15 Werder Bremen | Squad value: €80.6 million | Purchase value: €30 million

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14 Union Berlin | Squad value: €126.1 million | Purchase value: €30.4 million

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13 Mainz 05 | Squad value: €113.7 million | Purchase value: €42.2 million

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12 VfB Stuttgart | Squad value: €116m | Purchase value: €47.4 million

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11 SC Freiburg | Squad value: €161.9 million | Purchase value: €49.7 million

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10 FC Augsburg | Squad value: €117.2 million | Purchase value: €61.7 million

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9 Eintracht Frankfurt | Squad value: €294.5 million | Purchase value: €63 million

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8 Hertha BSC | Squad value: €92.4 million | Purchase value: €73.2 million

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7 TSG Hoffenheim | Squad value: €154.7 million | Purchase value: €84.6 million

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6 VfL Wolfsburg | Squad value: €200.7 million | Purchase value: €132.3 million

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5 Gladbach | Squad value: €223m | Purchase value: €143.2 million

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4 Bayer Leverkusen | Squad value: €421.9 million | Purchase value: €210.9 million

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3 RB Leipzig | Squad value: €487.3 million | Purchase value: €257.9 million

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2 BVB | Squad value: €547.7 million | Purchase value: €327.7 million

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1 Bayern Munich | Squad value: €979.7 million | Purchase value: €488.5 million

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In view of 30 points in 16 games, they have at least managed to be a home power again. Also in the second order, to place more value on “games that are particularly important for the soul of the fans”, they “delivered properly” with four points each against arch-rivals Cologne or FC Bayern and victories against Dortmund and Leipzig. What you have to and can criticize is our away record,” said Farke. Only VfL Bochum and Hertha BSC scored fewer points away from home.

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When asked if he knew if he was still coach of Borussia next season, Farke adamantly stated he was “the wrong person” or that wasn’t his focus. According to media reports, his end at the end of the season has already been decided. Sports director Roland Virkus, who, unlike most other weeks, did not sit next to Farke at the press conference this time, had recently vigorously denied that.

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