Hertha BSC parted ways with coach Tayfun Korkut after the 2-0 defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach. A successor has not yet been announced.
That shared the relegation risk Donut Bundesliga soccer club on Sunday. Korkut only took over the post as head coach at the end of November.
hertha Managing Director Fredio Bobic had before the game of corkut and demanded points from the coach in Gladbach. With only 23 points from 26 games, the Berliners have slipped into a direct relegation zone.
After five defeats in a row and falling to 17th place in the table, the 47-year-old has to go. Unlike in the past few weeks, when those responsible around Korkut and managing director Fredi Bobic referred to the good phases in the Hertha game despite bad results, this was no longer possible after the appearance against Gladbach.
“First of all, I would like to thank Tayfun Korkut and his assistant Ilija Aracic for their commitment to Hertha BSC since November. After a promising start with seven points from the first four games and a positive trend, we have now openly and clearly analyzed the performance and results of the nine games in the second half of the season and have come to the decision to make another change in the coaching position,” said Bobic Quoted in a press release on Sunday.
It is still unclear who should save Hertha
It is still unclear who should save the Berliners in the end of the season. “We will inform you about the successor in this position as soon as this personnel situation has been finally clarified,” said the Hertha message.
Next Saturday (3:30 p.m. / Sky) TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is the next opponent in Berlin. After the following international break, the opponents are Bayer Leverkusen and Union Berlin, before a three-pack against relegation rivals FC Augsburg, VfB Stuttgart and Arminia Bielefeld.
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Shortly after ten o’clock Bobic was at the training ground of Hertha BSC drove up. Shortly after 11 a.m., the club announced the decision to leave the coach.
Since the first separation from Pal Dardai in the summer of 2019, Tayfun Korkut has been the sixth coach to leave Hertha prematurely.
In the Bundesliga they went nine times in a row without a win, in addition to the bitter elimination in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup against city rivals Union Berlin (2: 3). In the second half of the season, the old lady only has two points and 6:25 goals.
More than three years after his last short-term engagement at VfB Stuttgart, the 47-year-old Korkut should at least lead the Bundesliga team, which is stagnating between gray mediocrity and acute relegation problems, from the bottom half of the table until the end of the season. Bobic’s request failed thoroughly.
The mood around the club has been very tense in recent weeks. After the derby defeat in the DFB Cup, fans disrupted team training. The decision to separate now also increases the pressure on Bobic, who brought Korkut and has already separated from the second coach in the almost ten months of his tenure.
Not only in terms of results, but also in terms of play, there was only limited progress compared to Dardai’s second term. Hertha is consistently lagging behind the still high standards of the club, which investor Lars Windhorst has declared a “Big City Club”. The conflict with Windhorst, who is striving for more say, is now being carried out publicly. In the past two and a half years, the club has worn out six coaches in Ante Covic, Jürgen Klinsmann, Alexander Nouri, Bruno Labbadia, Pal Dardai and now Korkut.
In the winter transfer window, Hertha only spent a little money due to the financial effects of the Corona crisis. There was also a massive corona outbreak in the team and bad luck with injuries.