Crisis summits are now part of everyday life for the German Football Association (DFB).

There will be another one this Wednesday.

This time director Bierhoff and national coach Flick have to provide an analysis of the messed-up World Cup to the fresh president Neuendorf and the long-serving BVB managing director and DFB vice-president Watzke.

And a plan on how everything should get better by the time of the EM 2024.

One thing is clear: This summit is about concepts, but the crucial question is whether Bierhoff and Flick still have enough confidence for a new opportunity.

After the experiences of the past few years and the most recent World Cup, it can be said that a new sporting and emotional start for the national team is inconceivable with Bierhoff.

Too much has broken under his leadership.

Bierhoff is responsible for this

As a reminder: the last EM was already given away.

Or to put it better: accepted an early exit with approval.

It was common knowledge in the DFB that national coach Löw hardly seemed capable of making the European Championship a success in his last tournament.

But the DFB and Bierhoff shied away from the decision to put the sporting leadership in someone else's hands at this point.

The result is well known: a team that had more potential than the current World Cup squad fell short of their potential.

At this World Cup, it wasn't just individual mistakes and weaknesses that led to the early end.

The national team didn't have the quality to become world champions, but they were strong enough to reach the knockout stages.

This time the early failure is also related to a lack of sporting focus.

As is becoming increasingly clear: some players, who wanted to concentrate solely on football immediately before the start of the World Cup, rightly perceived the farce surrounding the “One Love” bandage and the mouth-to-mouth gesture as a disruptive maneuver from within their own ranks.

The national team did not unite this unsuccessful political action, but divided it.

Whether Bierhoff may have consulted a representative of a PR agency in this process or not: In any case, he is responsible for an action that is harmful to the DFB in every respect.

The national coach, on the other hand, did not provide any arguments as to why he should continue to lead the national team to the home European Championship.

In addition to a questionable squad selection, bad substitutions and the wrong starting lineup against Costa Rica, Flick has to live with the accusation that he hasn’t found a starting eleven with automatisms in a year and a half.

The team was worse than the sum of its individual players.

A coach's job is to achieve the opposite result.

It is true that Flick has only been in charge for almost 18 months and not 18 years like Bierhoff, but his appearance in Qatar (without players at the press conference, sharp isolation) also conveyed a lot of a DFB spirit that German football already has no longer good for you.

Flick may still be allowed to continue.

However, that would be a decision that is due to his past successes at Bayern and a lack of alternatives.

But not his performance as national coach.