“Hopelessness” at the club
Felix Magath folds Hertha BSC together
4/17/2023, 6:16 p.m
Hertha BSC is on the brink, Pal Dardai should save the club from relegation. Last season’s firefighter, Felix Magath, is now railing against the “Big City Club” because of the new coach. Hertha have “learned nothing”.
Hertha BSC has not only literally arrived at the bottom, but also in terms of the tableau. The bottom of the table has their backs to the wall, suffered a bitter 5-2 defeat against FC Schalke 04, who were also threatened with relegation, at the weekend. Coach Sandro Schwarz had to resign after that, and the capital club brought back club icon Pal Dardai as savior. Too little? The former coach Felix Magath, who saved the Berliners in the relegation last season and ultimately ensured that they stayed up, found clear words.
“The club hasn’t learned anything,” Magath told Sky about Hertha BSC. His ex-club had “lapsed back into old patterns immediately after the rescue last season”. It was simply “nothing changed or improved”.
According to Magath, the biggest problem: “The willingness to do something better is simply not there.” The 69-year-old directed his criticism primarily at the sporting management and reported on his own experiences: A coach at Hertha BSC “has no time to take care of the players and the team. You have to do everything alone there. There is no support whatsoever.” .
Hertha “does not concern me”
After the victories against FC Augsburg on matchday 30 and against VfB Stuttgart on matchday 31 last season, which saw Hertha temporarily drop to 15th place, everyone in the club “was immediately euphoric again instead of continuing to work”, Magath said return. In the end, the Berliners slipped and had to be relegated. It was only there that the rescue against second division Hamburger SV was secured.
If things had gone wrong in the end, he would have been solely to blame, Magath suspected, who let on that his successful rescue was given too little credit. When he came, “hopelessness” prevailed. After the rescue, however, “no one said a word”.
However, Magath was unable to say whether the situation will improve with the new/old coach Pal Dardai. “I can’t judge that,” he said, adding meaningfully: “And it doesn’t bother me either.” In a survey by colleagues from sport.de among thousands of participants, 62 percent still believe in staying up. Only 38 percent assume that Hertha will be relegated.