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Created: 01/05/2022, 09:01 AM

By: Korbinian Kothny

Is there a transfer in the pipeline?

Coach Köllner in dialogue with sports director Gorenzel.

sampics © Stefan Matzke

TSV 1860 Munich has an extremely small squad for the second half of the season.

Coach Michael Köllner comments on possible newcomers in the training camp.

Belek

- It is a strong first team that Michael Köllner is tactically preparing for the second half of the season in Belek.

Hiller in goal, a back three and a back four in front of it, Neudecker on ten, Lex and Bär in the storm - a team is ready that could always be trusted to make up the seven points on the promotion places.

It becomes problematic when you look at how the B-Elf, the sparring partner in the Belek units, is equipped.

The most experienced player is Quirin Moll, 30, who attested coach Michael Köllner “terrifying” appearances in the first half of the season.

Get involved in the blue guys: young professionals like Mannhardt, Cocic, Gresler and Köllner's stepson Freitag.

For a short time, 17-year-old Morgalla was even allowed to fly to the professional training camp.

It is clear to each of the over 60 fans in the stands: The squad no longer forgives many failures, considering that the Lions are still represented in three competitions and at least 20 competitive games are waiting for Lex and Co.

"I decided neither for it nor against it."

Michael Köllner on possible newcomers.

A cadre that is sewn to the edge anyway has painfully shrunk in the end. Sascha Mölders is a case for the history books, Daniel Wein wears a clunky special shoe that is supposed to protect his stress injury. With Merveille Biankadi, after a four-week break, it is clear that labor is too early for him. Not to forget Corona long-time unlucky Kevin Goden.

A sign of the seriousness of the situation is that the basically modest Köllner for the first time no longer rules out the possibility of personnel action being required.

When asked about possible newcomers, he said: “I decided neither for nor against.” But, he explains: “If the absolute necessity arises, the club's management would certainly be ready for it.

There is a need when something out of the ordinary comes out on the market.

Or if a player were injured or not fit. "

Michael Köllner: Transfer has to fit 100 percent

It honors Köllner that he continues to show the greatest possible understanding for the strained financial situation of his club ("It's not my job to beg"). But he wants to be prepared just in case. “At the end of the day, I also deal with newcomers,” he reveals: “In the last few days I've talked to or met with one or the other. Ultimately, that is also my job. If a striker tears a cruciate ligament tomorrow, I'll find it hard to say: I'll have two more weeks. If it happens on January 27th, I have to have the new player on the same evening. ”As you know, the transfer window closes four days later.

According to the schedule, 1860 has played five competitive games by then.

The optimist Köllner hopes that the team will signal to him: We don't need reinforcements.

“It is important in all transfer activities,” says Köllner: “You have to keep the group strong.

I just don't know: what would it do with the team if, as the saying goes, we get a new alpha lion?

What would it do with Marcel Bär, what with Stefan Lex, what with Biankadi or Tim Linsbichler?

So you have to look: What is there on the market in winter?

Is there a good loan option?

Or maybe you can even sign a player in advance?

We are dealing with the topic, no question about it.

But it is always important: It has to fit 100 percent. "(Uli Kellner)