Transfer chaos at Hertha!
Hertha manager Fredi Bobic (51) was fired on Saturday evening. President Kay Bernstein (42) handed over sporting responsibility to the new sports director Benjamin Weber (42) and ex-professional Zecke Neuendorf (47/head of licensed players).
For 5 million euros, several reinforcements should be brought in for the rescue!
According to BILD information, the possible new investor 777 is said to have gotten involved in the transfer search. Hertha’s transfer headquarters were selectively relocated from the office to the office of Bernstein’s agency in Neukölln.
Isco change burst! This beauty is not in the Bundesliga!
The result is sobering: Tolga Cigerci (extra story) is just one reinforcement.
The list of failed negotiations, on the other hand, is much longer: Ex-manager Bobic had clarified almost everything in advance with right winger Gauthier Hein (Auxerre) and offensive all-rounder Maximilian Philipp. Two loans for a total of one million euros. After the Bobic exit, Philipp preferred to go from Wolfsburg to Bremen. And the new bosses couldn’t come to an agreement with Hein, who already completed the medical check-up in Berlin on Monday. Doubts about the quality of the player are said to have been the reason from Hertha’s point of view.
Maximilian Philipp preferred to go on loan from Wolfsburg to Bremen
Morocco’s World Cup hero Selim Amallah (Standard Liège) was offered a 2.5-year fee, but the noble technician didn’t want to go to Hertha! Defender Jannik Vestergaard (300,000 pounds/month at Leicester) was too expensive, Josuha Guilavogui was not released by Wolfsburg despite the transfer fee offered. FC Cadiz also rejected an offer from Berlin for attacker Theo Bongonda.
Exciting: A sale of Hertha defender Marton Dardai to Augsburg for 2.5 million was also an issue in the middle – if the negotiations with defender Papé Cissé (Olympiacos Piraeus) about a loan with a purchase option had been successful.
In the end, Hertha’s coaching team should not have been convinced of the exchange.
Transfer conclusion from coach Sandro Schwarz (44): “One or the other didn’t work out. Also from our side.”
Means: Only a newcomer in the relegation battle. Is that enough in the end?