Opinion about coach dismissal
What speaks for HSV after Walter’s exit
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“You had to do something” – HSV parted ways with coach Tim Walter
Hamburger SV has parted ways with coach Tim Walter after a good two and a half years. The six-time German champions have already failed five times in their attempt to finally get promoted back to the first league. Football expert Jimmy Hartwig comments on the decision on WELT TV.
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Hamburger SV dismisses coach Tim Walter. An understandable decision that could have been made earlier, but is not necessarily too late. The club can still get promoted to the Bundesliga. Especially with the right successor.
In the world of human resources departments, the conclusion would probably have been this way before: Since the intermediate stages could not be achieved, the big goal cannot be achieved either – then you as the person responsible have to do something.
In the world of football things sometimes look a little different, where soft factors such as friendships, support from team members and important fan groups and identification with the club play a role. And because Tim Walter was able to score points in these areas for a long time, he lasted longer than the results would have allowed. HSV sports director Jonas Boldt even waited so long to be released that he himself was damaged.
But because, at the end of the day, football is a results sport and two home defeats with 3:4 goals each in a row cannot be drowned out by singing along to the fan songs – which Walter liked to do – Hamburger SV is now facing a new beginning again. In the sixth attempt to get promoted to the first league, the crisis became apparent in the winter and not, as has often been the case recently, only in the last few meters of a season.
Walter’s playing style was easy to decode
A coach like Steffen Baumgart, who recently expressed his sympathies for HSV in an unusually open manner and who is now considered the favorite for the position, should know from day one what has to be done: It has to be successful, the best-staffed squad in the second division to give more stability and balance. The unusually open style of play that Walter preferred – and with which he could create a spectacle on a good day – was too easy to decode, which cost him point after point over the course of the season.
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Two things also speak for HSV. On the one hand, there are still 13 match days left and the opponents Kiel, Fürth and Hanover are about as stable as a cathedral visitor after a breakdancer ride. Even city rivals FC St. Pauli have not yet escaped to first place, although they lost five fewer games than HSV, third in the table.
And what also speaks for HSV is that the rest of the environment acts more in the background compared to previous years, even sponsor Klaus-Michael Kühne seems almost mild in age to the outside world. CFO Eric Huwer has his area under control and has even organized money for investments. And he is also personally good friends with his board colleague Jonas Boldt, which is why he has nothing to fear about the coaching question despite his long hesitations. At least not until early summer, because then the climb must finally be successful.
