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Hütter in Gladbach at the wrong time in the wrong place

WHardly anyone was really surprised by the television appearance during which Adi Hütter announced his departure from Borussia Mönchengladbach. Although the Bundesliga season somehow ended lightly, the club is in seventh place in the second half of the table after beating Hoffenheim 5-1 with 26 points, but for months there have been indications that a fundamental new start is urgently needed.

“After many intensive, good, substantive and respectful discussions, we mutually agreed that we would go our separate ways,” said Hütter. It was probably the club that urged this step, otherwise the Gladbachers would not have to pay any severance pay. “I would like to pay a big compliment to Stephan Schippers (Borussia’s CFO, editor’s note), who found a very good solution with my advisor,” said Hütter, who will also be relieved that this huge misunderstanding will end after a year now comes to an end.

The decision was made on Friday, and the team was informed on Saturday after the game before the news was made public. “Many points” came together on the way to this decision, said Hütter, and sporting director Roland Virkus explained that in the talks of the past few days they “reflected and also looked to the future”. All parties apparently came to the conclusion that the future of Borussia should be shaped by a new head coach.

Not Hütter’s idea

“We were in very uncomfortable spheres, but then brought ourselves back to safe areas with calm and energy,” said Hütter. He had been hired by the former sports director Max Eberl, who resigned in January, with the promise that the team would gradually be restructured in the interests of the new coach. This was not possible due to the loss of income during the pandemic.

Hütter had to work with a squad that didn’t go particularly well with his idea of ​​dynamic pressing and switching football, and he lost an important confidante in Eberl. Differences of opinion with parts of the team are said to have been the result, and fresh impetus that the squad, which was encrusted in its structures, would have needed could not be financed because Eberl had not been able to generate transfer income.

Hütter, who previously had great success at Frankfurt, was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. “First and foremost, I’m looking forward to the holiday, to being with my family. I have now worked continuously for almost 14 years, except for the three months between the stations in Salzburg and Bern. I don’t have a plan yet on how to proceed,” said Hütter.

Daniel Farke (most recently Krasodar and Norwich City) and Lucien Favre, who coached the club very successfully between 2011 and 2015, are now being discussed as possible coaches for the new start. But now VfL Wolfsburg has also parted ways with Florian Kohfeldt, who is also an interesting candidate.

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