For Christian Preusser, Friday’s game against 1. FC Nürnberg could be his last as coach of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Sports Director Klaus Allofs has indicated that a defeat for could result in the 37-year-old being kicked out. What speaks against and what still speaks for Prussia?
AGAINST
By Jan Wochner
Too bad actually! With whom I also talk about Christian Preusser. Everyone tells me: Fortuna has a likeable coach.
I still like the idea of putting my trust in a young and fresh coach in the summer, who not everyone had on their list. Likewise, not questioning him on the first setback.
And yes, Preusser is primarily a victim of Fortuna’s lack of leadership at the top of the club. victim of a board, in which competencies were not clearly distributed for far too long. Victims of a sporting leadership duo with Klaus Allofs and Uwe Klein, who didn’t manage to perfectly strengthen the team in crucial positions.
However, the situation is far too delicate to continue to protect the coach. Fortuna has long been dancing on the razor blade again. The descent into the third class, synonymous with a relapse into forgotten, dark times, is no longer an unrealistic scenario.
Christian Preusser did not manage to make this team crisis-proof. The playful approach is difficult to recognize and apparently does not lead to success. A rebellion at the end of the first half of the season was evident. The team’s most recent appearances, however, were an oath of revelation.
The squad can no longer be changed significantly. The long overdue personnel quake in the Executive Board has already taken place. Now an impetus is needed to get things going on the lawn.
Fortune has no choice. With the abyss in sight, there is only one option: change coaches!
PRO
By Norbert Krings
They still exist, the arguments that speak for Preusser. With all the comments on the team’s performance, it resonates that the players also bear a large part of the responsibility. Hardly any player has shown good form for more than one or two games in the first half of the season. The big exception is Khaled Narey, without whom Fortuna would be even worse off. Players have also rarely displayed the enthusiasm and willingness, let alone passion, to force wins.
The squad of the team was not complete at the beginning of the season, so that the coach had to improvise directly. In addition, the reinforcements did not fit the way the sporting management and the coach had imagined. The team could not be strengthened selectively, as planned.
Too often the coach had to rebuild the team, actually he was almost never able to send the line-up from the previous week back onto the pitch – injuries, (corona) illnesses, suspensions or poor form prevented a kind of starting eleven from playing in. Preuß even had to change the goalkeeper several times. So there could be no consistency, and the large fluctuations were no wonder. The leading players also fell out again and again.
From the start, Preusser had to constantly report to Uwe Klein and Klaus Allofs. Preußer could not do a completely independent work. Most recently, Thomas Kleine was even deprived of his confidante at his side because it was attested that he lacked experience. In the selection of Manfred Stefes, Preusser was only allowed to give his consent once the commitment had already been decided.
Fortuna wanted to stand out (once again) from other clubs and not change coaches again. The example of FC St. Pauli with the upturn after a weak season has impressed the club’s management, and there is still hope that Fortuna will follow a similar path and could play a good role in the fight for promotion next season. But if you look closely, the team lacks individual quality in some positions. It wouldn’t be so bad if there were three or four players carrying the team for the other players to lean on. The coach can’t do anything about that either. Other experienced trainers would also fail because of this.
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