Function of the trainer in Bremen open
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Coach Ole Werner will leave SV Werder Bremen at the latest at the end of his contract in the summer of 2026. The green-whites informed on Monday afternoon that the 37-year-old also did not want to extend. Werder and Werner had recently negotiated the expansion of the working paper.
Werder sports director Clemens Fritz said about the departure of the coach that has been in office since November 2021 in the next twelve months: “We very much regret this decision because we were able to imagine long-term cooperation with Ole very well. We have to accept the decision now and will analyze the current situation and decide what the best solution is for Werder.” Werner already has an exit clause this summer.
Ole Werner lasted extension at Werder Bremen
In an interview with the Deichstube, Werner had recently left his extension open and warned that one had to come to a denominator with regard to the ambitions of the association. “How much change around a trainer can an association do, and does that make sense for the overall development of the association? With this question we are all very responsible and try to find the best solution,” said the former Kiel coach last week. “If you want to create new energy again and again, there are only two options: either it has to change things around a trainer, or at some point it is at the point where it is good for everyone when something is happening in the position of the trainer.”
Of the still current Bundesliga clubs, only Werner’s successor in Kiel, Marcel Rapp, and of course Heidenheim’s Frank Schmidt are in office (for comparing the coach) than the Werder coach. After days on the bench of the green and white, he caught up in Florian Kohfeldt promptly, since Bundesliga was founded only the unattainable Thomas Schaaf (5,119 days) and Otto Rehhagel (5.203).
Werner was about drawing the right conclusions from the season, which could have ended with a little more luck in the European Cup: “It’s about the right changes in the team, in the coaching team and in the staff. It is about new stimuli, for example, through new players and their quality. Also changed processes are a topic about this, we have to worry about how and whether we can set these stimuli.”