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In the first interview since his resignation as manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach and his time out due to exhaustion, Max Eberl sharply criticized his former club.
“Someone who was mentally ailing, who was ill, spoke up with me – and they don't believe him.
That's the problem!" said the 49-year-old in an interview with the daily newspaper "Die Welt".
He had the impression "as if you didn't really understand what I'm about - and above all: how I'm doing".
He himself was "at peace," added the future sports director of Bundesliga competitor RB Leipzig: "If I come back to the Gladbach stadium at some point, nobody can take away what I did there and what we achieved together.
I can look everyone in the eye there.
Whether they can do it, I don't know."
Eberl resigned in tears at the end of January after 23 years as manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach.
He justified the departure with his mental stress and said: "I just want to get out, I just don't want to have anything to do with this football right now.
I want to have fun.
I want to be Max Eberl.« In mid-September, RB Leipzig announced his commitment as sports director in December.
Eberl: "I can't understand being accused of lying."
An open letter from a Gladbach fan project, in which, among other things, doubts were raised about Eberl's honesty regarding his exhaustion, hit the manager very hard.
He could understand the disappointment about his move to RB Leipzig of all places, "but not that I'm accused of lying and theatrical play - and that the club doesn't immediately reject something like that".
He is »very disappointed that people with whom I have worked almost every day for 23 years do not believe me.
I can not understand that".
Find yourself with professional help
The fact that contact with Gladbach had largely broken off in the meantime "hurt him at first," but ultimately also helped him "to put an end to it," said Eberl: "I worked for years, and when I stopped working, it was over very quickly .«
The former professional also reported on his trips abroad and the psychic journey »to myself«.
During his time off, he claimed “professional help”.
“I also cried a lot.” At that time he also started “to write a diary.
I still do that to this day."
»Would like to work for Leipzig«
In August he felt “football hooking me again and strength and energy coming back”.
Eberl does not see the fact that he is now in charge of the RB project, which he himself used to criticize sharply, as a big no-go: “In the end there is only one person you really have to answer to, and that is yourself. And I just have it keen to work for Leipzig.«
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