Daniel Farke wants to get Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach back on the road to success. The new head coach on the Lower Rhine recently drew a first summary of his new club position and dared to look forward to the start of the season in August.
In conversation with the “table football” the 45-year-old made it clear that he rated the first time in his new position as Gladbach coach very positively: “The first few weeks have strengthened my feeling that the cooperation will work very well. It doesn’t just affect the team itself. I feel welcome and in very good hands in the whole club,” Farke told the specialist magazine.
According to his own statement, he finds himself “100 percent” in the philosophy of the traditional club, which “stands for certain values and a certain idea of football”.
On Sunday, Farke and his team won the Cup of Traditions against third-division side MSV Duisburg (1-0) and Spanish first-division club Athletic Bilbao (0-0), both of which lasted 45 minutes. The “kicker” interview was conducted before that.
Farke made it clear that he had found very good conditions in Gladbach and is now working towards the Bundesliga opener on August 6 against 1899 Hoffenheim: “In theory, both sides are certainly a great fit. Now we have to prove it on the pitch .”
Farke does not have a fixed goal for the season with Gladbach
Similar to sporting director Roland Virkus before him, the trainer, who is coaching a team in the Bundesliga for the first time, did not want to get carried away with formulating a goal for the season.
“It’s not appropriate, after two seasons in eighth and tenth place, to trumpet any place in the table and euphorically announce that we’ll be playing the league to the ground in the future. It’s now about concentrating on things in terms of content,” says Farke, who had his most successful time as head coach at Norwich City in England. He led the Canaries to the Premier League twice (2019 and 2021).
The Gladbach coach, on the other hand, wants to focus on passionate football, which the spectators in Borussia Park have often missed recently: “I don’t think anyone expects us to score 102 points and the championship. But what the fans expect is football for which Borussia Mönchengladbach traditionally stands for. Football with creativity, with possession of the ball, with passion and with the willingness to defend this jersey with the diamond.”