Bremen doesn’t have any scouting, so a lot of money is often spent on washed-up stars who then don’t make the cut. Clubs like Cologne or HSV do their homework and sign promising players early. Bremen sees what falls off the truck on deadline day.
I wouldn’t agree with that. In recent years, Werder has repeatedly brought in good players for a small fee who didn’t have many on their roster before. Just think of Lynen, Stage, Piper, Weiser, Sugawara, Coulibaly and a few others.
I see the big problem more in the external media representation and in Werder’s general actions. You always present a very unfavorable image to the outside world. This particularly affects activities on the transfer market and contract negotiations with players.
The best example is the Sturm construction site. It was obvious that they wanted to get rid of Ducksch. He caused unrest and a separation was inevitable. Not trying harder to find Burke was a big mistake. You simply should have taken more risks here. The icing on the cake for the incompetence in squad planning was that Kownacki was given away without having a replacement. Given the conditions, Kownacki could have been given away on the last day of the transfer phase and would not have had the risk of only having Keke Topp. The risk with Boniface was known to everyone beforehand. You allowed yourself to be guided through the emergency situation that you should never have been in and then dreamed too much.
