"Then something can grow here": HSV board member Boldt poisons against Walter critics

Created: 05/02/2022, 21:45

By: Jan Knötzsch

HSV is successful.

That wasn't necessarily the case for a long time.

Including criticism of HSV coach Tim Walter.

HSV board member Jonas Boldt clearly counters the criticism.

Hamburg - calm.

Nothing but rest.

Sometimes that is exactly what is most important and absolutely necessary in life.

Then when you have a difficult day behind you.

Or a busy week.

But maybe also a phase in which things are not going so well.

A crisis in a tough season, for example.

Times that Hamburger SV knows all too well.

Year for year.

And exactly one thing is missing in Hamburg when things aren't going well at HSV: rest!

Sometimes internally, when suddenly the coach is on the brink and – like Daniel Thioune once did – has to go.

Much more and much more often, however, there is a lack of calm because there is a hail of external criticism.

As in the current season to HSV coach Tim Walter, who is repeatedly exposed to hostilities.

Jonas Boldt is now countering this criticism.

And clearly.

The HSV sports board poisoned against the Walter critics.

Because he really wants to continue with the coach.

It doesn't matter whether you succeed or not.

HSV sports director Jonas Boldt relies on Tim Walter and the team: "We have created something here"

At times, the "Tim Walter bashing" at HSV has taken on grotesque traits when you review the season of the club from the Volksparkstadion, where Jonas Boldt warns about HSV modesty in the promotion fight: TV expert Peter Neururer verbally beat up several times HSV coach Walter.

Felix Magath also took on HSV more than once.

Tim Walter himself clashed in front of TV cameras with ex-HSV player Martin Harnik, who currently plays in the Oberliga Hamburg for TuS Dassendorf and has since put his HSV opinion into perspective.

Sky reporter Torben Hoffmann also picked up a verbal "Walter-Watschn" from the HSV coach - also in front of the TV cameras.

Walter is just the impulsive one, where Jonas Boldt mimics the calm and deliberate representative.

A picture says more than a thousand words: "Not even such a small sheet of paper fits between us," HSV sports director Jonas Boldt (right) seems to symbolize coach Tim Walter here.

(24hamburg.de montage) © Jan Huebner/Revierfoto/imago

HSV coach Walter, who is often referred to as the "Badisch Dynamite", just doesn't let everything be done with him.

It really isn't easy for him in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, where hopes and euphoria sometimes grow faster and higher than anywhere else in the republic.

In the meantime, HSV is no longer the top club it used to be, but "only" a normal second division club, where board member Jonas Boldt doesn't even have much money compared to others - which in turn leads to HSV Transfer rumors about players like Robert Glatzel.

Or that HSV transfer rumors about Josha Vagnoman never stop.

Allegedly, Vagnoman wants to leave HSV in the summer of 2022.

Fans can "identify with the way": HSV board member Jonas Boldt sees arguments on his side - and that of Tim Walter

But back to HSV coach Tim Walter, who Jonas Boldt absolutely wants to keep in Hamburg and therefore defends vehemently.

“We have created something here.

We have great confidence in the coaching staff and the squad.

The fans feel that too, although sometimes there is impatience when you don't win games," explains the HSV board on the club's website.

The feedback was "immensely large and positive, because people say that they can identify with the path, that they see a squad that gives everything for the club and that they like to stand behind," says Jonas Boldt, who explains the clarity has that Giorgi Chakvetadze leaves HSV in the summer.

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"If we stay together in this constellation," says HSV sports director Jonas Boldt, "then something can really grow here." But for this to happen, Boldt still has to do some convincing at HSV, where coach Tim Walter criticizes defender Miro Muheim Afford.

The Bild-Zeitung reports that the following scenario is also conceivable behind the scenes in the discussion about a HSV future in the committees: Tim Walter, Jonas Boldt and junior boss Horst Hrubesch could have to go if HSV was promoted to the Bundesliga should not succeed once again.

Jonas Boldt praises development and cohesion under Tim Walter – “HSV has been missing that for the last ten to 20 years”

"I've always said we believe in ourselves.

We know what we're up to.

My person in particular says: We have a great deal of trust in the coaching team and in the team,” says HSV sports director Jonas Boldt, opposing these plans.

And it becomes even clearer: The perspective that something could develop under and with a coach Tim Walter in Hamburg is what HSV has been missing for the last ten to 20 years.

There was seldom this feeling from the outside that there was a real unity and cohesion.”

My person in particular says: We have a lot of trust in the coaching staff and in the team.

HSV sports director Jonas Boldt

But, according to Jonas Boldt: “This is the only way you will survive on the track.

Otherwise you'll throw everything over and start all over again every year.” That's exactly what they know well enough in Hamburg by now.

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