1860 sports director Gorenzel has to plan for another third division season.
Of course, Michael Köllner would have liked to contest the relegation to the promotion to the second Bundesliga, and especially because he would have gone against his former club, 1. FC Nürnberg. But the coach also knew that it was only a minimal chance that TSV 1860 Munich had given on this last match day: “It would have been a unique constellation to jump from seventh to the relegation place. But neither of us has our task Duisburg still has feathers done, so we don’t have to worry too much about it. “
In the end, the clear victory of the Duisburg against Unterhaching meant that the tired sixties did not have to grieve too much about their own 0: 2 against Ingolstadt. Even with a win, they could only have won the DFB Cup; this is also possible via the Bavarian Association Cup. The Würzburg Kickers who qualified as promoters are still there in the semi-finals; for the lions, the regional leagues – Memmingen and possibly Aschaffenburg – have to be eliminated. Given the Corona break in amateur football, it is unclear when the Association Cup can continue. “Whatever happens, we’re still in the running,” said Köllner.
Just like the trainer said a lot of positive things. “Well, I’m not falling into a hole,” he said: “That would mean that you will be disappointed, but we are satisfied. The team presented itself excellently, that’s what counts for me.” Since taking office in November, he has wanted to “offer good football” to the supporters – and that has been “successful”, he says: “Now it’s about” that you analyze in peace, recover and then look how it will be in the future looks. “
How does it look in the future? “You will see that,” said Sport Managing Director Günther Gorenzel. This time he was there instead of a player at the beer sponsor’s Fantalk – with some reason, because it was hardly about the previous game, in which Gorenzel also diagnosed the rapidly declining forces at the end of the crazy hasty Corona season. But it was mainly about the next season, for which not only investor Hasan Ismaik wished via Facebook: “We are attacking again.”
Obviously, Gorenzel does not fully share the enthusiasm of some fans about the economic agreement between the eV representatives and the investor side. “We have now adopted a basic economic package – I emphasize: a basic package,” said Gorenzel. And this package is “a foundation with which the risks and damages of Corona are compensated”. That is to say: The squad planner hopes, but is currently not assuming that he has more money available for the coming season than for the one that has just ended. It may even be less than was planned before the pandemic. “There is compensation, an economic safeguard,” said Gorenzel, but nothing more: “You have to approach this with realistic expectations.
We will also communicate this more and more clearly to the outside world. “Whether it could be a big competitive advantage for Sixty not to brutally cut the budget will only become clear when it is clear how other third division teams are coping with the consequences of the Corona crisis First, Gorenzel has to deal with some expiring contracts, for example with attacker Sascha Mölders, defender Aaron Berzel or midfielder Tim Rieder borrowed from Augsburg, but the rumors and speculations about coach Köllner no longer have to worry the fans so much has a current contract, the obligations of which Sixty can meet in view of the loan agreement with Ismaik, so if Köllner’s former companion Andreas Bornemann – now head of sports at second division FC St. Pauli – actually calls, Köllner won’t want to leave after six months in Giesing. Finally he asked: “Do I have the impression that I am absolutely “And even if he could imagine moving to Hamburg, where hardly anyone would understand him anyway: contracts are even valid at sixty.
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