Next season: Cautiously optimistic harmony

The praise came this week from Gelsenkirchen. The Schalke sporting Director, Jochen Schneider called Fredi Bobic and Eintracht Frankfurt in the same breath with Max Eberl, Borussia Mönchengladbach – as an example, on whose tracks will be gebeutelter club in the future, wool convert. Not with all the risks and side-effects of the big Dream are lagging, but rather a business policy that allows for a sense of proportion a steady, sustainable climb. Not with one leg laboriously over the abyss to balance, but with both feet firmly on the ground of the facts.

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The Concord starts on a solid base, from a Position of strength in the next season, although Bobic used prior to its launch in the holiday terms such as "full braking" as well as "zero" and the hole with a 20 million Euro quantified, the Corona've ripped in the last three months of last season. But the vast majority of Bundesliga clubs is significantly worse. You have a lower equity, higher liabilities and a much greater pressure for Change in the squad as Concord. If there is no professional would be more and nobody would be able to play the Frankfurter, so to speak, from the competitive to the courses seven to ten.

But the harmony is quite capable of anything that pulls on the transfer market from the needs of the other, such as, for example, the scarf core, their Use, to be able to without investing. What makes it easier: it has become an address to the ambitious professionals. The performances in the Europa League, the comparatively stoic type, in crisis situations, handled develop, the time that is given to the players, to (Silva, Dost, Kohr this season; Haller, Jovic in the past), the seriousness of the Coach, the mentality of the team, the passion of the Fans, it all radiates and is registered.

In combination with the extension of the stadium, the construction of the professional camps and the new partnership with Deutsche Bank appears to be the Eintracht currently considered to be one of the most promising clubs in the League, in order to promote their own career – if you are not just Messi, Sané, or Werner. Still the Bayern play in their own League, still, Dortmund, Leipzig, Leverkusen and Mönchengladbach are out of reach, still Hoffenheim and Wolfsburg have greater opportunities: But then – Schalke staggers – come on harmony, and your Trend is upward, not side to side.