Felix Magath found clear words about the condition of Hertha BSC. The veteran coach had saved the Berliners from relegation in the relegation, but felt no support from the club.
The outgoing coach Felix Magath has severely criticized his employer Hertha BSC. A few days after he had managed to stay up in the Bundesliga with the Berliners in the relegation, the 68-year-old found clear words in an interview with “Kicker”.
“In the nine weeks I had the feeling that I had no help,” Magath said of his time as interim coach at Hertha: “The atmosphere was more like: Paragraph one: everyone does their own thing.”
Magath only protects Bobic
In the end, according to Magath, he got the team to stick together, but things were different in the environment: “Overall, I never had the feeling that the club was fighting relegation,” said the coach, adding: “There wasn’t a major problem. There were only problems.”
However, Magath protected the managing director of the Berliners. Fredi Bobic is also “one of the victims” in the club: “He has taken on problems that have not only been there since last week. This club has been close to relegation for the third year in a row. It didn’t come suddenly, it had to be structural be trouble.”
Magath had succeeded the hapless Tayfun Korkut at Hertha in mid-March. The team narrowly avoided falling into the 2nd Bundesliga in the relegation against Magath’s Herzensklub Hamburger SV, for whom he played 306 Bundesliga games.