Dortmund fires the head coach and repositions itself for the future. A good decision. And the Rose-Aus is only part of the great upheaval.
Borussia Dortmund parted ways with coach Marco Rose after just one year. This news surprised many football fans in Germany on Friday. It is the logical consequence of an at best mediocre season in Dortmund. BVB had failed embarrassingly in the Champions League, the Europa League and the Cup. In the Bundesliga, the runners-up were eight points behind Bayern Munich at the end of the season.
Rose’s exit finally heralds Borussia’s urgently needed new start and shows that Sebastian Kehl in particular is taking action. The new sports director represents a new beginning. And the Rose dismissal underpins that. Precisely because it is surprising.
This is only part of the big puzzle:
- Part 1: Kehl replaces club icon Michael Zorc as sports director
- Part 2: With Karim Adeyemi, Nico Schlotterbeck and Niklas Süle, Dortmund signed three German internationals for the coming season
- Part 3: The longtime captain Marcel Schmelzer ends his career
- Part 4: Erling Haaland leaves the biggest star. The one that outshined everything and provided new topics of conversation week after week
- Part 5: And now the head coach is gone too
BVB management seems to have recognized what is needed after this mediocre season in order to be successful in the future. You need fresh faces, new ideas and, above all, a spirit of optimism in the club. And Borussia Dortmund is getting it now.