Second division football club FC St. Pauli wants to use the winter break for a comprehensive analysis of the precarious sporting situation. Coach Timo Schultz and head of sport Andreas Bornemann indicated changes to the squad, but there is no savior for the brown-whites in the relegation battle.
St. Pauli’s sporting leadership indicated newcomers for the upcoming winter transfer period on Tuesday: “You can improve in transfer periods. We will certainly tackle that,” said coach Schultz to NDR. Sports director Bornemann said something similar: “It’s about finding solutions that will help us in the short term to get us out of this extremely dangerous situation.” However, the head of sport restricted: “We have to move within our possibilities. The 20-goal guaranteed striker is not feasible for us. We will have to spread it over several shoulders.”
Coaching team part of the analysis at St. Pauli
The 51-year-old also referred to the planned internal evaluation of the past few months: “It’s good that we have time to analyze why things didn’t work out the way we thought they would in the summer,” said Bornemann. St. Pauli is 15th in the table. just a point ahead of the relegation zone and only three wins so far this season.
“We can’t just rely on hope.”
— St.Pauli sports director Andreas Bornemann
The focus will also be on the coaching team: “In the last two and a half years and in general throughout my career, I’ve proven that I don’t always follow the simplest solution approaches from the outside, such as replacing the coach,” said Bornemann when asked about Schultz’s personnel . But the coach and his colleagues Fabian Hürzeler and Loic Fave are now challenged: “That’s why I include the coach and the coaching team in the analysis. And we hope that we’ll come to the right conclusions together.”
Players should tick off the year and clear their minds
Schultz already provided the first and obvious insights: “Two key factors immediately catch the eye – our away weakness and the many draws,” admitted the coach to the Kiezkicker crisis. This is something to work on in the coming weeks. But first the players should tick off the 2022 calendar year: “I would recommend the players to switch off, put their feet up, mentally recover from stressful times. We need fresh minds in the second half of the season,” said the coach.
Bornemann also defended the scolded players: “I’m sorry for the boys, like Johannes Eggestein and David Otto, who are portrayed as air, as if we hadn’t brought any strikers.” However, the head of sport emphasized that a course correction would be necessary in winter: “In the summer we relied on a squad with a lot of prospects. But at the moment it’s all about scoring points. We can’t take the sensitivities of individuals into account because we have to see that we get the curve.”
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Hamburg Journal | 15.11.2022 | 19:30 o’clock
