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Lübeck – Thursday, February 25, 2021 should go down in the history of VfB Lübeck as one of the black days. In a press conference, the CEO took part Thomas Schikorra position on the current situation at the bottom of the third division, whereby … the main topic was the sacking of Florian Riedel after his fights against head coach Rolf Landerl.
Is that enough?
Nevertheless, the situation was used to ask questions about sporting misery. The result: sobering – and yet understandable. Lohmühle is currently surrounded by too many construction sites. Public discussions are being led into too much detail, “secondary theaters of war”, as Landerl put it on Thursday, round off the picture. But the problems are not just in the field. Of the VfB Lübeck has risen, but also at a very humble time. The finances are pressing on every rough edge and the environment is becoming increasingly nervous. The criticism is getting louder and louder and is currently killing the entire club. They probably give their best: team, coach, board of directors and supervisory board. You shouldn’t blame them for this and maybe even a little courage for the future. But maybe it won’t be enough in the end. Words of warning, criticism and advice from many sides should be seen as positive rather than “hunted down”.
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Compare to previous years
Last season the Chemnitzer FC with 44 points as the last club in the regional league. After 23 games, the Saxons stood at 27 points, Lübeck has a comparable 20, similar to Prussia Munster, which also relegated. Only Viktoria Köln saved herself and put in a series, in the end even reached 12th place with 51 points. It got caught a year earlier Energy Cottbus, equal on points with Eintracht Braunschweig and SG Sonnenhof-Großaspach and only by one goal worse than Lower Saxony with 45 points. In a nutshell: the Landerl team still needs around 25 points from 15 encounters. On average, that’s around 1.7 points per game. So the big arithmetic begins at some point.
At the end it is settled
When asked if the sports director Rocco Leeser has reached “milestones” so far, the CEO replied: “We have a really good internal dialogue, including Rocco, about how the team’s results are reflected and how we should classify that. However, you can’t expect me to be discussing the grades of my employees. ”In the Brocken 3. Liga, VfB feels“ well positioned ”. “We don’t think that we started the season with naive eyes. We knew from the start that it would be a tough battle for relegation. It was clear to each of us that we were relegated at this stage of the season that that could happen. It is important that we do not end up in a relegation zone and everything we do is also limited by the financial resources we have available. Everyone here has to work with the budget that we make available to them. Regardless of this, we have great confidence in the team and the belief that this team has what it takes to keep the class. “
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The coach and sports director are not available
In the executive suite, you don’t want to set an ultimatum to a sports director or coach. Shikorra: “Why should we give someone an ultimatum? That’s nonsense. ”Maybe also a question of finances? The time to change course was three weeks ago for other clubs. In Lübeck you will probably continue with the current team until the end of the season. So hop or go with green and white. Over 80 percent in a survey by HL-SPORTS would release the sports director.
“Who works a lot makes a lot of mistakes”
Schikorra, however, admitted: “We are always self-critical and have not done everything right during the season and in the years before. Those who work a lot make a lot of mistakes. “
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