Gladbach fan Serdar Somuncu is increasingly despairing of the club he loves.
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When he thinks of Borussia Mönchengladbach, comedian Serdar Somuncu (57) immediately stops laughing! He has been an ardent fan of his foal team for many years, but the recent past has repeatedly brought Somuncu to the brink of despair – and beyond.
In an interview on the YouTube channel “Buschi’s Borussia” Somuncu spoke this week about his feelings for Gladbach and became extremely clear. He literally lashed out at Borussia when it came to many criticisms, saying right at the beginning: “I’m extremely disappointed, even angry. I’m about to stop watching the games, which really means something.”
Serdar Somuncu calls for President Rainer Bonhof to leave
During the last bloodless home appearance against VfB Stuttgart (0:3), he left Borussia Park early for the first time in his life, said Sumuncu: “Because I couldn’t take it anymore.”
Apart from sports boss Rouven Schröder, who was practically his only hope, Somuncu hardly gave anyone in the club a good look. GladbachLIVE has noted the harshest points of criticism.
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… Trainer Eugen Polanski: “Polanski is an incredibly nice guy, but nice doesn’t win games. And you notice more and more that he lacks the experience of leading a Bundesliga club. He’s good with the players, you can tell that, but in my opinion he’s actually overwhelmed. The decision to continue with Polanski was far too hasty.”
… the Gladbach squad: “When you’re in the stadium, you can clearly see what’s lacking. The concept. This team lacks ideas. They go onto the pitch, they’re set for five minutes or let’s say 25 minutes. And if it doesn’t work, then they collapse.”
… Florian Neuhaus and his Mallorca video: “If you publicly dismantle Florian Neuhaus like that and send him to the U23 because he made a stupid statement: a player like that is no longer interested. He no longer identifies with the club.”
… the rest of the season: “To be honest, I don’t see it that way and I’m normally a total optimist. But for me relegation isn’t even guaranteed. I don’t want to be pessimistic, but if you ask me honestly, I believe in a direct relegation place.”
… the club management: “Bonhof goes into the downfall with his eyes open. He is at the top as carnival president, who constantly rejoices and says: ‘Everything is fine, wonderful. Believe in victory, it will be okay.’ And you say: ‘No, Rainer, that won’t work.’ You have to make sure that we modernize this club from the ground up. And it doesn’t start with Rouven Schröder and doesn’t end with Polanski, but the mentality has to be a modern mentality.”
…President Rainer Bonhof: “As long as Bonhof is president and Hannelore Kraft stands in the VIP box with the scarf, they will continue to enjoy the fact that we are a traditional club. Until at some point, like Kaiserslautern, like Schalke, like Hamburg, like Stuttgart and Frankfurt at the time, they will fall back to reality and be relegated.”
… Schröder’s predecessor Virkus: “Roland Virkus may be a nice person, but the man made so many mistakes that we are still feeling and paying for now, you can’t afford that in modern football. Since the inglorious departure of Max Eberl, the purchasing policy has been disastrous. Roland Virkus was unacceptable. Both in his external image and in what he did there. That was collusion. That was typical Gladbach collusion.”
… his hope for a change in the summer: “If a radical new beginning doesn’t really happen, and that means heads have to roll, Bonhof can no longer be president, then next year at the latest what is already in sight will happen.”
