the funniest thing is Low is like I want to honor my contract. Blame this on the dfb, if they had never extended pre-WC he could have been done. I think dfb's confidence in him is more about saving face than anything.
I also wanted to see him go. But I'll wait to see what he does in a few months. What changes he does.
For me what's really worrying is loew compared to some of the other coaches is tactically inept, Mexico's colombian coach completely out did him, previously euro 2012 italian coach outfoxed him, and certainly tite of brazil seems very astute
plenty of reports said that he will likely reexamine his whole approach in terms of tactics. But he does need better assistant coaches than Sorg and Schneider. why doesn't he try getting the unemployed Hannes Wolf instead.
Tbh, I would not be surprised if the team gets booed. Attendance figures have gone down continuously. DFB possibly dont have any other viable option at this moment in time. Tuchel would have been great
Tüchel also has a man management weakness. But he is much more creative tactically than Löw. At this point I think we will continue with Löw until his contract is up, or he fails again in a monumental fashion. Lucky for him both the WC and EC have been expanded making qualification extremely easy. In the long run, I want to see Klopp take over.
coaches like Nagelsmann and Kovac have defended Low saying it would be harsh to fire a coach because of 1 failure after a decade of success. if we keep Low until his contract is up, by then majority of top coaches will be done with their own contracts.
Low just didn't have a failure he had a complete disaster. I'm going to have to breakout a thesaurus to describe just what a disaster this was. A failure would be bowing out in the QFs. Just out of curiosity, how many top 8 teams retain their coaches after not making it out of the group in such an embarrassing fashion? Especially with what looked like a promising group of players. As a club equivalent, just think of a Bayern coach whose contract got renewed after being relegated to 2BL.
We fired a legendary CL manager who Won with BVB in 97, got us to the final in 99, semi final in 2000 and won in 2001. He was fired because we came in 4th place in the GS in 2003.
wasn't there also reports that Bayern got rid of Jupp in 2013 to make room for Pep. If that's true, we dumped a guy for winning the treble at Bayern which isn't easy to hire another who didn't win anything big while he coached at the club.
Low got backing from a player he blacklisted. "Germany didn't play well [at the 2018 World Cup], the team should change a lot. but the fact that Joachim Low stays as a head coach is the right decision. He has been working with the team for 13 years and he knows how to get it back on a good level," Kuranyi said.
Maybe Kuranyi is looking for a job in Löw's staff, just as he was looking to rejoin the team as a player for about half a decade after getting kicked out. He might be tired of working as Stanislav Cherchesov's interpreter, seeing as Cherchesov speaks better German than him.
Hummels vs Khedira: How die Mannschaft fell apart Team spirit within the German national only ever existed in advertising slogans, actually the mood in internally was explosive. In the second part of the series "ZSMMNBRUCH of a World Champion" kicker will name in this Thursday edition the trenches within the team and describes why coach Joachim Loew could not prevent these processes: That there was a "big bang" within the German national team after the disillusioning 0: 1 against Mexico is now known to the public through the open words of captain Manuel Neuer. Less public however was that there were not only problems between the world champions and the Confed Cup winners, but also among the established, for example, between Mats Hummels and Sami Khedira. Two veterans who rightly consider themselves as spokesmen of this team. Their problem was: They do not speak the same language. Just the latest station of never-ending chain of of misunderstandings between the two. Read in the second part of the series entitled "Dissolved - how the team 'fell apart', why Löw can not free himself of the charge of self-glorification he has attested to his squad. Why did the national coach pull an about-face and bench Özil and Khedira and thereby caused both external and internal astonishment? And why, in the case of Neuer, did he send out a signal worthy of discussion to the rest of the team? http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...ontra-khedira_wie-die-mannschaft-zerfiel.html
It's interesting all the follow up reporting is confirming Honigstein's early reporting rather than SportBild's "bling bling" version In other words the campaign was dead in the water early in 2018, but faith in Low's ability to somehow bring it all together in camp kept the reality from dominating coverage - but clearly the problems were not really a secret. So the only interesting question left is whether Low knew the campaign was doomed, or whether he believed his own hype
I said before we will need a new Klinsmann, just not calling up several of the old guard. 2004-2005 media was full of former players complaining they wouldnt get called up anymore although they performed. First candidate: Khedira
In terms of the Confeds Cup guys who were mad about not being selected - the list I guess is short of who the guys were - and I guess we are talking about the Mexico game here as guys did get their chance? Or is it that as a group, they were already upset before camp? ter-Stegen must be top of the list, also with Neuer parachuted in an aggravating feature Rudiger did in fact play, but then was dumped again Rudy also did play but got injured Drax, Werner, Kimmich and Hector all played Goretzka then? But he hardly played well vs SOKO Ginter could hardly expect to make the XI Stindl and Can not selected.