Hertha coach urges farewell
Pál Dárdai, coach of Bundesliga relegated Hertha BSC, has publicly dismantled Myziane Maolida. At the press conference before the second division game at Hannover 96 (Friday, 6:30 p.m.), the trainer said when asked about the 24-year-old winger: “We won’t let him down, we’ll give him match practice and analysis, but he should go as quickly as possible possible away from us. He was given a lot of chances and was as lazy as very few players I have seen in my life.”
Maolida moved from Nice to Berlin in 2021 for 4 million euros, but has only appeared on the field for the Hertha professionals 22 times in competitive games since then (two goals/one assist). The Paris native, who is now a Comoros international, spent the second half of the 2022/23 season at Stade Reims – without any resounding success. Maolida was actually supposed to move to Turkey in the summer, but the deal with MKE Ankaragücü fell apart at short notice. According to the “Bild” newspaper, the reason for the failure of the negotiations was contractual reasons because of which the attacker rejected the offer.
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It remains to be seen whether statements like Dárdai’s will drive up interest in the winter transfer window. Maolida’s contract is valid until 2025. At least he has provided more positive moments on the field recently: for Hertha’s U23 he scored three goals and two assists in nine games in the Regionalliga Nordost, and for the Comoros he played for the first time during this international break and scored in both appearances in a 4-2 win against the Central African Republic and in the 1-0 win over Ghana in the Africa World Cup qualification.
Dárdai explained why he still won’t choose Maolida, who was once in the second division squad for the 2-1 win at Schalke at the beginning of October: “Now you can see: he wants to, he hasn’t given up – that’s good for him. But I don’t want to risk that again. I have good, hard-working wingers here. I’m sorry, that sounds harsh, but a Gustav Christensen is much more important to me. We are very fair with him, he scored the goals because he is fit. We pay attention to him, I also know his stats, how much he runs in training and so on, but he wasted his chance with me.”
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