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Hans-Joachim Watzke was relatively brief.
He is very happy that "Marco Rose will be our coach from next summer," said the managing director of Borussia Dortmund.
He didn't want to get involved any closer: “Because until then he is still an employee of Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Out of respect for this great club, we won't say more for the time being. "
He doesn't have to say more.
The main thing is that Rose comes.
This at least creates the prerequisites for overcoming the rigidity in which BVB has been for some time and for daring a new start next season.
If the conditions set out in Rose's employment contract with the Gladbachers are soon met and Rose signs a three-year contract in Dortmund, further planning can be started.
But the first, decisive step has been taken.
Marco Rose will be the BVB coach from the coming season.
It is not yet clear what kind of team will take over
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The Dortmund team was relieved to be able to fly to Spain, where the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Sevilla FC will take place on Wednesday (9 p.m. / live Sky and in the WELT live ticker).
"We want to see the game as an opportunity to show our true colors in another competition," said Edin Terzic, who must now be called interim coach at the latest.
In any case, the solution to the long simmering coach question was the dominant issue.
"Want to be an unpleasant opponent for Sevilla"
Before the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Sevilla FC, BVB coach Edin Terzic talks about the opponent's good form.
Nevertheless, the coach believes in the qualities of his team.
Source: Stats Perform News
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Because Watzke and sports director Michael Zorc have high hopes for the commitment of their dream coach.
Rose should show the way - into a future in which the second most expensive team in the Bundesliga will finally play attractive, dynamic and successful football again.
But will one coach alone be enough to make Dortmund's undisputed number two in German football again - with the potential to win titles and challenge Bayern?
"Rose can develop teams in the long term"
“Everywhere that Marco Rose has worked, he has ensured a stable development of his teams and has done a good job.
He lets you play well-ordered, tactically variable football and can certainly develop teams over the long term, ”Ottmar Hitzfeld told WELT.
For the BVB master coach from 1995 and 1996, it was an understandable decision.
After all, the style geared towards pressing, early disturbance of the opponent and compactness, which Rose had played in Salzburg and which he then refined in Mönchengladbach, has long since become the benchmark at a high international level.
Hitzfeld led BVB to two championship titles and a triumph in the Champions League
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“In general, that's modern football,” believes Hitzfeld, pointing out that there are only a few top teams that stubbornly stuck to one style of play.
For BVB, variability must be the future goal.
"However, the style of play always depends on the quality of the players," said Hitzfeld.
"And BVB has the quality." The team could spark attack fire precisely because of their young, offensive talents such as Jadon Sancho, Gio Reyna, Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham and Youssoufa Moukoko - provided that the team still manages to achieve a compactness, which minimizes the risk.
How difficult that is, the Dortmunders experienced in the past two months.
Since Edin Terzic took over as coach from Lucien Favre on December 13th, he has been trying to break up tactical incrustations - so far without any resounding success.
Qualification for the Champions League is mandatory
Questions also remain unanswered with regard to long-term development: What changes need to be made to the management team?
And: Can this even be done to the satisfaction of the new coach if BVB does not manage to qualify for the Champions League again?
For the current season, a deficit of 75 million euros is expected as a result of the Corona crisis.
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It is not yet clear whether Rose will take over a potential Bayern hunter in July or a club that is struggling not to be overtaken by the competition.
"BVB is expected to finish at least second in the Bundesliga," said Hitzfeld.
In terms of budget, this is a logical claim: the team cost around 160 million euros in the past 19/20 financial year - due to Corona, adjustments have already been made, if the Champions League is missed, more would have to follow.
Nevertheless, Hitzfeld believes that his ex-club will recover in the current season: “The league is very even at the top behind Bayern.
The other teams play at the limit.
BVB is currently going through a weaker phase, so there is unrest.
The players first have to regain their self-confidence. ”The games in Seville and the Revierderby on Saturday at Schalke offer good opportunities for this.
How is Gladbach handling the coming months?
The people of Gladbach have other problems.
Rose's decision shouldn't come as a surprise to sports director Max Eberl, but the coming weeks will be a special challenge. After the announcement that the coach was leaving, Eberl sat down with the executive committee and the supervisory board.
In addition to the search for a successor, it must also have been about how the coming months can still be mastered together.
The prerequisite for this would be that the entire association shows a high degree of unity.
Just minutes after the decision was made public, the predictable happened: In the fan forums, there was a mood against Rose.
Who will succeed Rose?
The candidates
Now that Marco Rose's departure is official in the summer, Borussia Mönchengladbach is desperately looking for a new coach.
The list of candidates is long and, in addition to abroad, also leads to some direct rivals in the Bundesliga.
Source: SID
An early separation cannot be assumed, however.
Especially since there are examples of being able to be successful with an emigrating coach: Niko Kovac even won the DFB Cup in the final against FC Bayern with Eintracht Frankfurt 2018 - after he announced that he would be moving there.