I am very happy that it is going so well for Preetz and Duisburg. He is simply a completely serious manager who can make a lot of little resources. That is exactly what you didn’t want to do with Hertha back then than everyone was blinded by the big blessing of money.
I see it completely differently. Several things can be true at the same time.
1) According to Hertha, a catastrophic work was done after Preetz departure that has never been seen in German professional football
2) Preetz does a great job at the MSV and lifted it into new realms, of which you could only dream of in Meiderich beforehand
But / and
3) Preetz did not do a good job with Hertha overall:
– He had two completely unnecessary descents directly after 4th place and then put everything on one card in the second division to get back up by playing with a Bundesliga squad 2nd league
– The leadership and internal communication were miserable to hear again and again from internal circles and also read publicly on job portals. He pulled Buddies through and created a permanently bad mood in the office. A culture of failure. We try. We fail. We fail again.
– The most important point: In terms of transfer, Preetz did not clog out in terms of replacement in terms of 2019 and made good and clever transfers. At the club level, however, he did not interrupt the course after the Hoeneß years and continued to live over our conditions. As a result, the then share sale to Windhorst was the last cartridge for financial consolidation, which was at the end of the end for miles. But Preetz only brought us to this situation.
And most recently, Preetz was responsible for the Totengräber transfers Tousart, Piatek, Ascacibar, which is fundamentally refuted by your statement. There was now a certain “pressure” to knock on the corner. However, he and he all alone put the signature under the contract. With his hands and feet, he is obviously not against the big money and he would have had the opportunity as the managing director.
The key message remains. In my opinion, the solid to good work of Preetz at Hertha is a myth, which does not change that his work is now strong at the MSV and that Hertha has been working even worse after him.
In my opinion, this is simply completely wrong.
Preetz held us in the first Bundesliga for years with transfer investments of 1-3 million per transfer phase, then there was usually 8-14 somehow, which was not enough for most.
Then 200 million were squeezed into the squad (and intentions against Preetz) and they were able to get off and never come up again.
How to talk to Preetz work so small afterwards is really incomprehensible to me.
Of course, our football was Bieder and mostly not nice to look at (it has been since then) but our means were also absolutely limited and he was just the right manager for the Hertha.
And you say it yourself, he stands for solid to good work, isn’t that bad at all? Who is doing the Hertha, who is really able to do great work?
Is not as if the Bundesliga is being overflowing with highly competent manangers, even our industry leader has an absolute nulpe in the position.
He sold properly and hardly spent transfer fees, our salaries were also up to Windhorst Io
Reaching yourself healthy in the second division has always been an absolutely irrational conflorn dream and never implementable for a club like Hertha.
And to blame him for the Windhorst transfers is just ridiculous. He has fought against the influence of Windhorst/Klinsmann and others – more or less as the only one – and also repeatedly fought against demands for excessive transfer investments.
But his position was already very weak and the transfers you mentioned did not go on his cap, even if he was still acting as a manager, it was obvious that it was never his decision.
And he was already braking, if it had gone to Klinsmann, we would have paid Götze 20 million a year.
At that time, this “braking” and his defensive nature against investments (in players) was also very negative for him by a large part of the Hertha fans, which makes the whole thing even more ridiculous if you want to attach the opposite development to him now.