Hamburger SV coach change
Steffen Baumgart is ready for HSV
Status: 03.01.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Present and Future? HSV could swap Tim Walter (left) for Steffen Baumgart
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At HSV, coach Tim Walter is under enormous pressure after the bumpy first half of the season. If there is no success, there will be a change. Steffen Baumgart would like to take over the club. The reason for this lies in his childhood.
From now on, Tim Walter will only work at Hamburger SV on probation. After a detailed analysis of the first half of the season, the coach received a job guarantee from sports director Jonas Boldt before Christmas. But under one condition: the 48-year-old must have continued sporting success with HSV and be promoted to the Bundesliga.
If Walter doesn’t succeed, HSV will part ways with him. Will Boldt then bring in Steffen Baumgart? The coach is on the market after leaving 1. FC Köln on December 21st and has announced that he wants to work again from the end of January. Because he doesn’t feel burnt out and is full of energy.
Many HSV fans dream of Baumgart coming to Hamburg immediately. Because he knows how promotion works, plays attractive offensive football and speaks from people’s hearts. He became a crowd favorite in Paderborn and Cologne and is also adored by fans of other clubs.
SPORT BILD reports: If the conditions are right, Baumgart would be willing to take over HSV – even though it only plays in the 2nd league and he could earn a lot more money in the Bundesliga. In Cologne, Baumgart recently collected around 1.8 million euros a year (including bonuses). At HSV there is an upper salary limit in the 2nd league, which is 600,000 euros per year as a basic salary.
Baumgart’s reasons for HSV
Baumgart would still go to HSV. Reason: The two-time European Cup winner has been his favorite club since childhood. This love even survived the fall into the second division. “I’m not someone who immediately leaves when others play better, I’ve always watched the club. It’s still like that,” said Baumgart in January 2022 before the DFB Cup round of 16 with Cologne against HSV (3:4 on penalties).
He would be interested in leading Hamburg back into the Bundesliga after relegation in 2018. He achieved this sensationally in 2019 with the small SC Paderborn. For Baumgart, HSV is a club with enormous appeal thanks to its tradition, past successes and the fans behind it. In the first half of the season, an average of 56,007 spectators attended the home games.
There is currently no contact between Boldt and Baumgart. That didn’t exist in December either, when Walter was on the verge of losing at HSV. At that time, Baumgart was still under contract in Cologne – and HSV couldn’t have got him.
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But now the situation has changed. In addition, HSV wanted to bring Baumgart in as early as 2021. Boldt and former sports director Michael Mutzel (44) had intensive discussions. In the end, Baumgart went to Cologne because he assured FC that he would make a decision by an agreed date – and HSV still needed some time to implement a commitment.
Baumgart was on a skiing holiday until New Year’s Day, and starting this week he’s thinking about his future. He has already received inquiries from abroad. He will hold discussions while Walter has been preparing his team for the second half of the season since January 2nd. The pressure for him at HSV was never so great. The coach knows that with every defeat the discussion surrounding him grows larger – and the opening program is not easy. Hamburg starts at Schalke, then hosts Karlsruhe and then has to go to Hertha BSC.
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The article was written for the Sports Competence Center (WELT, SPORT BILD, BILD) and first published in SPORT BILD.
