Lucien Favre is no longer the coach of Borussia Dortmund.
The bosses have agreed on an internal solution by the end of the season.
But who could take over BVB in the long term?
Borussia Dortmund parted ways with their coach Lucien Favre just before Christmas.
Various candidates are traded as the successor to the Swiss.
The top favorite is the coach of a Bundesliga competitor.
Munich - In the end, the fact that we are in the most reflective time of the year could not save him.
The
Advent weeks
.
Less than 24 hours after the
1: 5 revelation in the home game against VfB Stuttgart
,
Lucien Favre lost
his job as
Borussia Dortmund's coach
*.
The appearance against the brisk climber was too disastrous, the performances in the weeks before too helpless.
After all, the
1: 2 against Kellerkind 1. FC Köln had
a clear round, in between it was enough against Eintracht Frankfurt to a rather flattering 1: 1.
In the end, that was too much of a
slip
.
Especially since the title rivals from
FC Bayern
and
RB Leipzig,
who are also not always confident, have
already lost five points.
If possible, there is no more time to lose.
That is why the BVB bosses around
managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke
and
sports director Michael Zorc
quickly
agreed
that Favre's previous assistant
Edin Terzic
would succeed the Swiss.
According to the club's announcement "until the end of the season".
Looking for a coach at BVB: Terzic takes on the role of head coach for the first time
The 38-year-old Croatian is to be supported in his mission by
U17 coach Sebastian Geppert
and
top talent coach Otto Addo
- yes, this position
really
exists at
BVB *
.
For Terzic it will be the first role as head coach after he
had assisted
in the youth division of the black and yellow
Hannes Wolf
and from 2013 for four years his compatriot
Slaven Bilic
at Besiktas Istanbul and West Ham United, before he was accepted into the Favre team in 2018 .
So it is at least a brave decision by the BVB executive suite.
Because of course the Terzic promotion cannot be compared with the step taken by
FC Bayern *
a year ago, when
Niko Kovac was followed by
his assistant coach
Hansi Flick *
.
The 2014 world champion had not worked as a head coach for 14 years, but brought a lot more experience with him - not least thanks to his many years of
experience at the DFB *
.
Video: Borussia Dortmund separates from coach Lucien Favre
Looking for a coach at BVB: Gladbach's Rose would probably be available in 2021 thanks to the release clause
So could it be that Terzic is only planned as a placeholder before the Borussia bosses
can land
their
preferred candidate
?
This assumption sounds anything but daring, is supported by other reports.
Focus Online
reports, for example, that in the summer of 2021,
Marco Rose should be seen
as the only logical scenario.
The 44-year-old - a good friend of
Jürgen Klopp
- stands for research and respectable offensive football and has
a
contract
with
Borussia Mönchengladbach *
until 2022
, but thanks to a clause he should be able to get out after the current season.
A few weeks ago,
Sport Bild had named
Rose as a hotly traded
coaching
candidate
at BVB
.
At that time,
Gladbach's sports director Max Eberl
was publicly disgusted about it.
The day before Favre's release, however, the ex-Bavarian sounded much more conciliatory, said in the “Current Sports Studio” of the “ZDF”: “Every coach can freely decide where he wants to go.” Rose, who appealed to with his relaxed sayings and open manner Buddy Klopp remembers that the "Fohlen" led the first time in their history into the
last sixteen of the Champions League *
.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach coach since 2019: Marco Rose is working in the Bundesliga for the first time since his playing career.
© Roland Weihrauch / dpa
Looking for a coach at BVB: Pochettino is traded as a Dortmund coach in England
In England, meanwhile, there is
speculation
about Mauricio Pochettino's involvement
in the pot.
The Argentine had
continuously led
Tottenham Hotspur
into the top tier of the
Premier League *
in
recent years
, but had to take his hat off after a sportingly dreary autumn 2019.
His name was also mentioned after the
layoffs of Carlo Ancelotti
and Kovac at Bayern
.
In contrast to Rose, Pochettino would be available immediately, but like the record champions, BVB might want to keep their feet still for the time being because of the language barrier.
For the
Sun
and the
Daily Mail,
the 48-year-old is one of the "early favorites" on the Favre legacy.
Also about
Adi Hütter
and
Erik ten Hague
should at least be discussed again among fans and experts.
The Austrian has thrilled with
Eintracht Frankfurt * for the
last two years in the
Europa League *
and
always plays a decent role
with Hessen in the
Bundesliga
.
Ten Haag hit the advertising drum a little harder when he knocked out
Real Madrid
and
Juventus Turin
one after the other
in the
Champions League *
in 2018/2019 with
Ajax Amsterdam
and only failed in the semifinals to Pochettino and Spurs.
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Currently looking for a job: Mauricio Pochettino was shown the door of Tottenham Hotspur in November 2019.
© BEN STANSALL / afp
Looking for a coach at BVB: reunification between Marsch and Haaland?
And otherwise?
In the aforementioned
Sport-Bild
article, two other names appear:
Julian Nagelsmann
and
Jesse Marsch
.
Both are currently part of the Red Bull empire.
But while Nagelsmann at
RB Leipzig * can
basically lure talent after talent into the stable like in the football paradise
, the US-American
who works for
Red Bull Salzburg has to
regularly release his most valuable jewels.
Rose's successor lost
Erling Haaland
to BVB
a year
ago
, and it is now that the young Hungarian
star Dominik Szoboszlai is about
to
leave
for Leipzig.
In Dortmund, Marsch, who
knows
the
Bundesliga *
from one year as assistant coach of the Red Bulls, would climb a few links up the food chain.
Of course, Borussia does not manage to withhold any of its youngsters from the absolute top addresses from England, Spain, Paris or Munich.
But the black and yellow are quite capable of
rejecting
extremely
attractive offers
.
The club recently proved that with
Jadon Sancho
, who aroused interest in his English homeland.
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