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Marco Rose is returning to the Gladbach Borussia Park with BVB
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OZAN KOSE / AFP
On this Saturday evening, Marco Rose is returning to the place where, according to his own statements, he set "many, many positive factors" in motion.
The fans who will welcome the Borussia Dortmund coach to his old place of work will, however, think less of the positive factors, but rather of Rose's early departure from Mönchengladbach after he had received the offer from Dortmund and had used his release clause.
It will not be a friendly welcome at Borussia-Park.
The fans have not forgotten that Rose said goodbye to Mönchengladbach halfway after a year and a half and the team crashed after the announcement of the departure.
Therefore, the club has been trying for days to make good weather.
National player Jonas Hofmann announced that Rose did not deserve whistles.
Manager Max Eberl warned against a guerrilla war.
A little preventive self-protection, if possible, because Borussia has a new coach in Adi Hütter, who left Frankfurt amid people's anger.
And Borussia Mönchengladbach still has to go to Frankfurt this season.
Rose, Hütter, Nagelsmann
Numerous Bundesliga clubs have changed their coaches for the new season, some of them like Rose, like Julian Nagelsmann, who moved from runner-up Leipzig to champions Bavaria, or like Hütter, who took over Rose's position in Mönchengladbach, although they left the best conditions in their old clubs and did a good job. When Nagelsmann made a guest appearance with Bayern in Leipzig two weeks ago, those responsible for RB had also appealed almost convulsively to the fans to treat their returnees with courtesy. There were whistles anyway.
And rightly so.
Basically, it is proper to first treat each other in a manner and manner.
But the attempt to take this outlet from your own fans, their displeasure, you could also say to let out their anger, takes away a little more emotion from football.
Nothing rough, nothing rough anymore
As if the Bundesliga were just a single closed shop of doers, managers, executives, stakeholders and business people who change from job to job as they like, always looking for the next, better paid and even more success and reputation promising career station.
Preferably quietly and smoothly, without any creaking of the door.
Well, maybe that's exactly how it is.
Football has meanwhile become a polished, smooth industry, enclosed, gentrified, so to speak, the rough, the rough, the untamed has long been pushed back.
And the whistling, the yelling, the excitement, that is a reaction that has long since been impotent, that little bit of excess that changes nothing in the usages of top-class football.
The fans have to put up with all of this, it's part of the successful model.
Or in the future you will actually only do it completely without an audience.
After all, you could now test it in detail.