The academy trainers Hütter, Marsch, Glasner and Rose in the crisis
Anyone who was once employed as a coach at the Austrian Brause Club RB Salzburg was inevitably considered a hot product in the Bundesliga. The season so far shows: Even the supposed savior cooks only with water.
RB Leipzig experienced an ups and downs this season: At times the Sachsen shows appealing games, only to deliver bad ones shortly afterwards. In his sixth year in the Bundesliga, the runner-up has his first real dry spell – with 18 points, the Bulls are only 11th the account. The roller coaster ride cost trainer Jesse Marsch his head over the weekend.
The American was only brought in from Salzburg in the summer as the successor to Julian Nagelsmann. After only five months, the planned return to the RB-DNA (keyword: high-speed football) has crashed into failure.
Borussia Mönchengladbach will not draw any conclusions yet. There were ten goals conceded in two games in one week. Eight days after the 1: 4 derby debacle at 1. FC Köln, the defeated foals presented themselves headless and emotionless at home against Freiburg. After just 37 minutes, Sommer & Co. were in reserve with 0: 6. “First and foremost, we have to apologize for our appearance today, which is also unacceptable,” coach Adi Hütter had to crawl publicly. Gladbach also has only 18 points and is in 13th place. So far, the balance of the former YB trainer has failed. Even though you have a squad that is one of the best in the league.
Savior without a prescription
The 51-year-old Austrian, who also spent a year in Salzburg, was stolen from Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer for 7.5 million euros. The otherwise so prudent Gladbach manager Max Eberl was forced to take the unpopular measure after Marco Rose used an exit clause of 5 million euros and signed it with competitor Borussia Dortmund.
Rose is second in the championship with his new team, but the 45-year-old doesn’t seem to be able to contest Bayern Munich for their tenth championship title in a row. The eagerly awaited direct duel went to the guests from Munich on Saturday, while frustration reigns again in the BVB camp (which referee Felix Zwayer in particular gets from).
Rose, born in Leipzig, who also completed two years of apprenticeship in Salzburg from 2017 to 2019, may want to distract a little from the short-term failure in the premier class. Despite two wins at the start, they managed not to qualify for the knockout phase in the Champions League. This means that the business model of the black and yellow, that is, to offer highly talented talents like Erling Haaland or Jude Bellingham a big football stage, is already a thing of the past this year. In short: a financial and sporting catastrophe for the club, which is one of the best in Europe.
The trend has also stopped in Switzerland
Frankfurt is currently in 12th place, exactly between Leipzig and Gladbach. The only constant with the Hessians is the inconsistency. Most recently, the trend reversal appeared to have been initiated on the Main – Eintracht won seven of the last eleven games and lost only two. Against Hoffenheim Feldmann, however, back to the old pattern, so proud eagles die in recent years have shown themselves to be paralyzed. Coach Oliver Glasner also came from Wolfsburg in the summer – after all, free of charge. The Austrian was never head coach in Salzburg, but was hired as an assistant coach and sports coordinator. But he doesn’t seem to have a suitable recipe for the turnaround up his sleeve either. In Germany, trainer castling has not really worked for all parties so far.
There is also a representative in Switzerland who went through the famous coaching academy from the city of Mozart. St. Gallen’s Peter Zeidler is currently deep in relegation swamp with the eastern Swiss. The 59-year-old German, who played on the sidelines in Salzburg in 2015, would like to see his players running around like they did in the 2019/20 championship, when power football just missed the title. in between, however, one often seems to over-turn the wheel. The result: five dismissals in 16 games. For a long time now, the opponents have been well adjusted to the way the FCSG plays (or wants to play) football.
Competition has woken up – is there a Rangnick effect?
The influence of the energy drink giant on the football business has grown steadily since it started 16 years ago. With its innovative concept, based on speed and switching game, which was stringently pulled through all levels in the Red Bull cosmos, the shower company shook the competition for a long time.
In addition, thanks to the network, many talents got stuck in the network, which could later be sold for profit. The successful system was also applied to the coaches. An employee who had positions such as Salzburg (or partner clubs such as New York or Liefering) in their résumé automatically received a quality seal.
The lead in knowledge seems to have melted at the “Red Bull clubs” in the last few months. This is absolutely reassuring for many traditionalists who don’t like Red Bull anyway. On the other hand, Manchester United recently signed up the mastermind of philosophy with Ralf Rangnick. If the German soccer professor can bring his stars like Cristiano Ronaldo & Co. onto his line, the soccer world can dress warmly. It threatens red devils with wings.