This season the chance was there and a catastrophic second half destroyed it. It’s particularly a pity, because it will take a while before a year as successful as 2021 will come again.
Now a change is imminent and there is great unrest. Probably also because the claims were not met. Lawrence and Ziereis are definitely a loss. If Kyereh goes, which is very likely, then a regular player is also necessary on the offensive.
I’m excited but have little hope.
Without wanting to be disrespectful… Papperlapapp.
I can’t hear this babble about the “big upheaval/bloodletting” and the “big chance” anymore.
1. It is absolutely not surprising that all said contracts will not be renewed because the players concerned have no prospects at the club anyway. After all, it’s not the case that only top performers are leaving us at the moment. Even on the contrary. Above all, the players who were symbolic of the last unsuccessful nud mixed years are going. Ultimately, so far not a single player who was one of the clear top performers this season (especially in the first half of the season) has left. Even if Kyereh leaves, which is not entirely unrealistic, the club currently has a really strong foundation of good players who all had their relevant share in the good performances of the first half of the season. In addition, the non-extension with players like Ziere, Lawrence and Ohlsson is a very clear statement to the effect that the club, above all, is striving for a clear upgrading of the squad, which ultimately brings us directly to point number two….
2. This “great opportunity” was one thing above all. An enormously strong performance in the first half of the season that showed what this squad can do when everything works together. The second half of the season, on the other hand, simply showed what was still missing. It is also paradoxical to only hold on to this one chance now. If it were really the case that what is currently going on at the FCSP is not part of a constant development of the last 2 years, but just a spontaneous high that you somehow have to get over the goal, we would go down next season anyway or do us no better than Fürth this season.
This fatalistic notion of one chance doesn’t make any sense.
If it really was the one chance, it would be better not to get promoted at all, but rather to enjoy this great season and then chill out as the best or second best non-promoted team in the second division and celebrate a coming year, and if it weren’t like that, it would be part of a solid development a well-harmonized team of sports director trainers and environment, wasn’t that the one big chance we had to compulsively cling to because 10 years of sadness and bloodless kicking awaited us again.
Fun fact: The currently only promoted second division team that has managed to establish itself in league 1 for more than one season in recent years and to play several crisis-free seasons did not end up there through a good season but through a continuous positive development.
Union, Freiburg and Augsburg are examples that you are welcome to take a look at.
There was also a lot of fuss in the second division, as well as just missed promotions, etc. Ultimately, we could also smear such a season including promotion in our hair if it were not part of a development, because then it would simply bring us nothing except a bitter relegation and possibly then a bungee/yo-yo effect that shoots us from a much too spontaneous high to a spontaneous low.