You hit the mark with everything you wrote!! Just right. And this year the FCA seems to be due.
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Absolutely the right decision. It hasn’t been anything in terms of play since we arrived and it’s been okay in terms of sport. Actually, last year we were lucky not to be relegated due to some circumstances.
However, I think that in the case of Augsburg both are true: the right decision and overestimation. For a few years now, the Augsburg fans have been writing here on the site every year that their goal is to establish themselves in 10th place in the region and perhaps a little better and to be as strong as the squad can provide. I haven’t understood this for years. The squad was and is a squad that can stay in the league through dirty, hard-earned victories, but that’s all there is to it. When Weinzierl left for the second time, Reuter said that the team was capable of much more. I don’t see that in terms of content, nor do I understand why almost the entire squad was replaced in three transfer periods. This year too, I’m overly excited about the squad. I see Demirovic, Engels and Dorsch in teams fighting relegation, but the others? Dahmen, Uduokhai, Gumny, Iago, Breithaupt, Rexbechaj, Beljo, Tietz, Michel Vargas, Okugawa Mbkuku? That sounds like a team that is doing what they have been doing for years: reach 15th place, maybe 1-2 places higher.
Sure, the goal is probably bigger with the American investor, but I don’t think the squad supports that.
And I don’t think the club has any potential either. If you make a list of the 18 biggest clubs, Augsburg doesn’t appear there. Sure, some larger clubs have fallen significantly behind them in terms of sport, such as We, Hamburg, Hertha and Kaiserslautern. As a result, with money and years of good work, they have rightly earned their place in the Bundesliga, but where is a fan club with an average attendance somewhere around 25-28k and without strong sponsors supposed to find the potential? Apart from the investor, with whom the people of Augsburg want to ensure that they don’t spend a huge amount of money?
Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg, Leipzig and Leverkusen have completely different options thanks to external money.
You don’t even need to start talking about Dortmund, Bavaria, Frankfurt, Gladbach.
Stuttgart, Cologne, Bremen, Freiburg and Union also have more opportunities in terms of their environment and financially.
That means without including all the big second division teams, I’m already at 13 clubs. Mainz is structurally similar, but has a pretty good lead thanks to more years in the first league.
Darmstadt, Bochum and Heidenheim certainly have fewer options.
So even in a first league in which Hannover, Schalke, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern, Düsseldorf and Hertha are all missing together, I can only get a natural place of 14 or 15. And that’s exactly where they’ve been for years. You haven’t been over-performing athletically for years, that’s true. But they don’t go under, they end up where they belong. And that is absolutely respectable for a club that played in the first division for the first time in 2011. I don’t quite understand why this idea of being something higher should come from.
2023-10-09 23:38:52
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