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HSV in the second Bundesliga: restart with many question marks

RIn physics, otation is a rotary movement around its own axis. In football, it is a means that coaches like to use to set new impulses by changing the starting line-up. At the second division soccer team Hamburger SV there is always the possibility of just going around in circles in addition to tactical variations.

In any case, a new head coach, Tim Walter, has arrived this season, and there has also been a fluctuation in staff with new staff and some departures. And the quarrels over the appointment of the management staff in the ranks of officials have returned to where they have been so often.

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First to the sporty: On Thursday evening HSV returned from the nine-day training camp in Grassau, Bavaria. A 2-2 in the test against Bundesliga club FC Augsburg had given tailwind. In any case, Tim Walter was overall satisfied with the impressions of this intensive week. “The level of performance is top. I am very satisfied, ”he said. Walter also spoke of “a lot of intensity, a lot of fun”. Attempts would be made to “create solutions and implement principles”, even if there was still a lot ahead of him and his team.

Not only the rotor blades of the team around Walter, especially those of the squad planner around sports director Jonas Boldt and sports director Michael Mutzel, are circling at full speed. The Danish striker Mikkel Kaufmann has recently been signed. The 20-year-old attacker was initially loaned from FC Copenhagen for a year. The 1.90-meter-tall businessman had only scored two goals in 37 games at the Danish top club in a year and a half, but he should help close the gap at HSV, the star attacker Simon Terodde (24 goals / switched to league rival Schalke 04 ) left behind. If he succeeds, HSV would also have a purchase option.

Offensive spectacle and large gaps

However, Walter’s new system is less based than that of his predecessor Daniel Thioune on trust in such a goal machine. Rather, the load should be distributed over several shoulders. On the offensive, the players keep expanding their presentations. In his last two positions in the second league, Holstein Kiel and VfB Stuttgart, this led to some attractive offensive spectacles and successes – but also to fatal gaps on the defensive again and again.

In order to stabilize the overall construct, other positions were also traded. So far, HSV has signed striker Robert Glatzel (came from Mainz 05) with Jonas Meffert (Holstein Kiel), Miro Muheim (FC St. Gallen), Sebastian Schonlau (SC Paderborn) and Ludovit Reis (VfL Osnabrück) exclusively defensive forces. In addition to Terodde, HSV left the regular goalkeeper Sven Ulreich, who went back to FC Bayern, Gideon Jung (Greuther Fürth), Khaled Narey (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and Rick von Drongelen (1. FC Union Berlin). For the last three, their departure was sweetened with a transfer fee.

The player budget was throttled from 24 million to a good 20 million euros. HSV still needs fresh money, on the one hand, to avoid going into further debt and, on the other hand, to arm itself against extremely strong competition from the second division. The top talents U21 European champion Josha Vagnoman (20), who did not make it into the Olympic squad due to an injury, or the Belgian Amadou Onana (19) are possible candidates for a sale. “No player is not for sale at HSV,” said Boldt.

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At the same time, Walter wants to generate the athletic pressure through somewhat strange-looking measures, including punitive methods such as trellises if you are late or extra exercises after losing a training game. Walter is the 17th head coach of HSV in the past ten years.

He is considered a headstrong character, sometimes bulky, but also courageous and progressive. With Kiel he was at least sixth in the table in league two, but with Stuttgart he conceded a 2-6 debacle in the Volksparkstadion against his new club. After all, Walter can hang on his lapel to have become German champions with the FC Bayern U17.

His tactical and playful answers to what is probably the strongest second division of all time will be exciting. With Werder Bremen, Schalke 04 (the first opponent of HSV on July 23rd), 1. FC Nürnberg or Fortuna Düsseldorf are potential first division clubs, with Hansa Rostock and Dynamo Dresden hard-to-calculate climbers, also teams like Hannover 96, Holstein Kiel or city rivals FC St. Pauli have ambitions. With this density of big names, the performance should be better from the first day of the game, although the relegated from the Bundesliga are still working on their squad.

Quarrels before the election of the presidium

In his first days in office, however, the new coach can also observe what the HSV has been suffering from at the official level for years and where the now chronic damage to its image comes from. For example, ex-HSV attacker Marinus Bester, now a player’s agent, wanted to run with a team of three for the presidium election on August 7th. The 52-year-old was then astonished by an email on the Friday before last.

In this, the responsible HSV advisory board had given him and his two colleagues a rejection of the candidacy. The reason: There is no list election, only individual persons are allowed for the list at the general meeting. This was communicated to Bester and Co. in advance. When asked, he told WELT AM SONNTAG that he had only been asked whether his presidium proposal with him at the top wanted to run as a team.

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He takes this for granted. “We would have liked to see content-related disputes, these were prevented by political maneuvers,” he argues with the decision. The rules of the game were only changed afterwards. In addition, the committee had rejected Philipp Wenzel due to insufficient suitability. He, only 23 years old, would have been included in the best team for the position of treasurer.

Marcell Jansen, currently acting president, is now the only candidate. He would then automatically continue to be a member of the AG’s supervisory board and thus also have an influence on the operative business. “It will be interesting to see how the members will deal with what the advisory board has donated in the election,” said Bester.

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