Adi Hütter is the new coach of Borussia. In terms of sport, this is a good solution. Sports director Max Eberl has managed to sign a real top-class player after Marco Rose’s departure at the end of the season. Hütter has proven in Austria and Switzerland as well as with Eintracht Frankfurt that he can form teams that play football successfully over the long term. There is hardly any doubt that Borussia has done everything humanly possible in order to play again in the Bundesliga for the places that entitle them to participate in international business from the coming season. So far so good. If you only want the ball to roll into the opponent’s goal as often as possible in football, you should stop reading now. The rest is irrelevant to this type of fan who is probably not small and whose attitude is perfectly legitimate.
How the lyrics look alike. Almost two months ago, Mönchengladbach was in trouble. The move from Marco Rose to the Dortmund Ballspielverein did not come as a surprise to the Borussia supporters, but it still hurt. And the thing also had a taste. We remember: Rose had announced to the “hot club” from Gladbach that she wanted to build “something big”. After a little more than 18 months, the fans of this awesome club had to find out that the smart beard wearer from Leipzig hadn’t meant it that way. It was accordingly angry, especially since the change to a supposedly direct competitor for the Champions League qualification at the time was supposed to take place and the beginning of the coaching discussion miraculously coincided with the failure of the Gladbach team in the Bundesliga and shortly afterwards in the cup.
Borussia has not really stabilized itself since then. Our horror prognosis on the day of the announced farewell to roses was: “The probability of ending up with completely empty hands is greater than that of gilding the season or at least turning it into metal”. That’s how it happened. Only optimists see the trend reversal, in order to at least reach the Euro League, already completed. Whether one really wants to speak of “gilding”, should one be allowed to compete in the newly created nonsense league with the attractive abbreviation CL, is controversial. Max Eberl says yes, the environment follows grumbling at best.
How the lyrics look alike. Today in Frankfurt there is a fuss. Adi Hütter’s move to Borussia Mönchengladbach is no longer a complete surprise for the supporters of Eintracht, the topic has been haunted by the media for a few days, but it still hurts. And the thing also has a taste. It was only in February that Hütter said “I’ll stay” more clearly than Marco Rose ever did when it came to questions about his future. Only a few weeks later, the fans of Hessen, who was surfing a wave of success, found that the smart beard wearer from Hohenems hadn’t meant it that way. You are correspondingly angry, especially since Hütter is switching to a club that, in contrast to Eintracht, is creeping around in the upper league midfield and will probably only have two weddings to dance on in the coming season – at best enriched with an international swear to the rest of *** en.
As with Marco Rose, Borussia is getting a coach with a Red Bull history in Adi Hütter. Like Rose, Hütter has also signed for three years whether there will be an exit clause, as with Rose, remains open. One can assume that Adi Hütter will not switch to Borussia for sentimental reasons. In contrast to Rose, who came directly from the Salzburg brewer advertising company, Hütter was already at a traditional club with an environment that certainly does not have to be inferior to the Gladbacher when it comes to passion. To put it in the words of Marco Rose: He has already been to a great club. And is just about to move into the Champions League. It is all the more remarkable that Hütter does not want to reap the fruits of his own work, but is switching to a club that promised to become a shining star in the German football sky again a year ago, but for the moment is more of a slightly battered lamp there. So why is Adi Hütter moving from Frankfurt to Gladbach? With Marco Rose, the intention is clearer: As much as it hurts, BVB is a bigger number in the general perception than the real Borussia. And in the meantime, the conditions are also clearer in terms of sport than in February. Dortmund has at least good prospects for the Euro-League and is still in the cup. In addition, Dortmund pays better. With Adi Hütter… Borussia probably pays better. And the change also costs the previously unknown transfer fee of a good seven million euros for a Bundesliga coach.
Anyone who wants to believe in the good thing in a coach points out that the situation in Frankfurt has changed since Hütter’s confession. The farewell ton Sports director Fredi Bobic is now clearer than back then that a successor may be on the way with whom Hütter does not want to work. The team is also in danger of falling apart – in short: Frankfurt is on the verge of collapse. Well: At the moment, as a Gladbacher, you would like to be where there is harmony. With the expected income from the Champions League qualification, a disintegration should be avoided or converted into a constructive conversion. No, beyond questions of personal incompatibility, it cannot be denied that the Rose and Hütter cases are congruent. Thanks to its successes from 2011 to the present day, Borussia is rated slightly higher than Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga feed chain and is probably prepared to pay Hütter better.
We learn: The concept of continuity in football no longer necessarily includes the position of coach. We have had to get used to the fact that most of the players are passers-by in the past few years, even if it occasionally hurt. Now more than ever, the office of coach is temporary. Coaches plan their careers like players do, take “the next step” and are no longer interested in having monuments erected anywhere in the Lower Rhine province or in the Hessian region. Basically, that is not objectionable. So far, coaches have not protected either an eagle or a diamond in the heart from being thrown out (even if the coaching loyalty at Eberls Borussia is comparatively high to date). Consequently, Borussia’s fans would do well not to see the future trainer Adi Hütter as an architect of something big, but as a service provider who will hopefully help conjure up something attractive and successful for a while. And if he goes to Leipzig, Milan or Madrid in two years – then the next passerby will come.
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