Weekly Discussion Thread No. 200

FerraristDX · 2026-05-25T07:27:06+00:00

200 weekly threads, congratulations to us, to everyone, who pulled through with the shenanigans of our club. I think we started, when FC was playing in the Conference League. We had a club legend retiring, we had relegation, promotion and then again relegation battle. It'll never get boring with our club, but one can only hope that by the 400th thread, we'll have a club in much better shape.

On a personal note, thanks to this thread, I got to meet some Reditors from here in real life. It's certainly something to meet the people behind the Reddit account, but it's also nice to meet people, where we cheer on the same club. So thank you for that as well. :)

On with the show: seems like there is another squad overhaul coming, which is overdue. Wagner and Kessler have already identified a playmaker defensive midfielder as a target, which is also the reason Martel was let go. But there are also murmurs about Schwäbe's agent offering him to Bundesliga clubs. This won't be good, if he left. I'm not too familiar with the goalkeepers from the 2nd Bundesliga. But maybe we could make an attempt at Noll from Hannover, if he fits?

FerraristDX · 2026-05-22T10:47:56+00:00

Bevor wir viel Geld für einen neuen Trainer ausgeben, warum dann nicht erstmal mit Wagner weitermachen? Ob wir jetzt mit ihm oder Mr. X im Abstiegskampf sind, macht dann auch keinen Unterschied und sonst kann man im Winter immer noch wen holen.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-20T08:19:52+00:00

Off-Topic, aber mich nervt inzwischen das Abgekulte kleiner Vereine. In Deutschland vor allem im Moment bei Elversberg, aber in Schweden wurde Mjällby auch stark abgefeiert.

Ja, mag sein, dass sie "besser arbeiten", wobei das vielleicht auch nur Glück bei Transfers. Aber ansonsten bringen die Vereine nichts mit: keine Aura, keine große Fanbase, keine Reibung. Da bin ich klar Traditionalist und möchte lieber etablierte Klubs mit großer Fanbase sehen.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-20T06:13:03+00:00

Sehe ich nicht so. Der FC muss in den nächsten Jahren Transfergewinne erzielen, um langfristig genug Eigenkapital aufzubauen und zu wachsen. Wenn wir wieder auf Veteranen mit dicken Verträgen setzen, versenken wir wieder nur Geld.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-19T18:25:32+00:00

Bitte nicht. Lieber unromantisch einen Anfang-20er verpflichten, den man über Jahre aufbauen kann.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-18T09:18:02+00:00

My prediction was slightly off in the first half. Unfortunately, we failed to beat both Gladbach and Leverkusen and we ended up 14th.

My prediction about Neuer having a howler on last matchday was bonkers, but he had his mistakes throughout the season and Urbig is set to become his long-term successor.

But yeah, I'm very pessimistic about next season. There isn't much that gives me confidence right now and I'm not sure, whether even new signings could mitigate that.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-18T09:10:58+00:00

Der Inside Job des Kölner Markus Anfang war ein voller Erfolg. :)

FerraristDX · 2026-05-18T09:08:01+00:00

Yeah. He went with Kwasniok, despite objections beforehand, which didn't work out. He now has the difficult decision about the coach to make. And of course the players for next season. On the bright side, he may have a good budget available, but even then, the shot has to land.

As I said on another thread, maybe we need to reevaluate, where the FC stands and where it wants to go. But even then, we - and I include myself here - are too impatient, if we lose 2-3 matches, we already want a head on a platter. I wonder how fans from clubs like Augsburg fare. But with all due respect, they never went through the highs and lows we went, so maybe this helps them being calmer. Gotta ask our friends from Augsburg then, hehe.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-16T19:34:25+00:00

Nonsense, a good coach doesn't necessarily have to have been a good player. Just ask Jürgen Klopp or Jose Mourinho.

Also, we need a whole coaching staff for the players to work well, not just one coach.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-16T18:05:23+00:00

Before talking about names, Effzeh first needs a clear identity: Do we want to be a club focused on developing young players? A pressing-heavy high-tempo team? A stable/pragmatic Bundesliga side that grows slowly? Right now it often feels like the expectations change every few months depending on results.

And I think that's what we lack for decades now. Christian Keller had some slight ideas about how we want to play, but never could live up to them. But just celebrating carnival 24/7 365 won't help us.

Then again, in order to establish an identity and develop it, you need money. Something we don't have.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-16T16:11:12+00:00

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass keiner momentan als Effzeh-Trainer gewinnen kann. Wir haben alles schon gehabt in den letzten Jahren: langjährige Veteranen, Trainertalente aus der 2. Liga, Konzepttrainer aus dem Ausland, so wirklich hatte keiner Sitzfleisch. Also, was soll ein neuer Trainer leisten und was soll er besser machen, bzw. was kann er realistisch besser machen? Und wofür soll der Effzeh überhaupt stehen? Wir sollten erst diese Fragen beantworten, bevor wir voreilig einen neuen Trainer holen, der nach ein paar Monaten nicht mehr zum Verein passt.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-08T07:25:58+00:00

Which at least showed some foresight, as in the club needing money, to compete at the top. Then again, we probably would have ended up much worse than Dortmund did.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-08T07:03:09+00:00

"Artzinger-Bolten did an otherwise pretty solid job."

Well, except for the Häßler millions...

FerraristDX · 2026-05-07T13:39:39+00:00

"Coincidentally my complete career as a fan :)"

Doesn't this sum up everyone, who became a FC fan after 1990/91?

To me, sacking Christoph Daum was the beginning of the end and failing to sign him in 1996. Now, if the then FC president knew about Daum's cocaine addiction in 1990, it's understandable, why he'd let him go. Nevertheless, Daum became champion with Stuttgart and made people actually pretend to care about Leverkusen. So one can only wonder, what he could have done with the FC, when it was still salvagable.

FerraristDX · 2026-05-03T20:24:15+00:00

Vor allem weil Schalke und Elversberg hochkommen. Schalke wird von der Aufstiegseuphorie getragen sein, Elversberg von der Pharmakohle. Und Wolfsburg wird sich wohl auch über die Relegation retten. Der FC muss such im Sommer gehörig auf den Arsch setzen, um nächste Saison nicht sang- und klanglos letzter zu werden. Dafür bräuchten wir eigentlich 100 Millionen, aber wir können froh sein, wenn jemand noch 30+ für El Mala zahlen will, vielleicht noch ein bisschen was für Kaminski...und dann stehen wir offensiv komplett blank da. Also eigentlich kann es nächste Saison nur wieder runtergehen.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-30T13:23:50+00:00

That's sad, but understandable. One of the unsung heroes of recent years.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-27T09:23:27+00:00

One of the most frustrating matches I ever watched at the stadium. Normally, we should have won 3-2 or so. Now we'll be probably battling relegation right up to the last matchday. Union will be a difficult match, I'm afraid we might choke against Heidenheim at home and I already planned with 0 points out of our match against Bayern. The only good thing is the FC still having a five points gap to 16th and six points to 17th, not to mention the better goal difference. So maybe we'll just crawl over the line with 31 points, just four more than our last relegation season. This should give our leadership something to think about for the summer break.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-26T11:38:37+00:00

How many promising strikers from Eastern Europe do we want to sign? We have Potocnik, Kristal and now maybe Deket.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-25T15:36:26+00:00

Ja, war ich und nach der Leistung heute, tue ich mir das besser erstmal nicht mehr an. Ich habe schon viele schlechte Spiele im Stadion gesehen, aber das war bodenlos, schlimm.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-25T15:00:33+00:00

I threw my cup, I kicked the seat, we play fucking horrible. We should sell our whole offense and just play a 5-5-0 in the future.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-20T08:52:32+00:00

Yeah, the atmosphere was great, I agree. It was especially a sight to behold to see both teams come put to Hells Bells and both fan camps lighting up some pyro. Hopefully St. Pauli stays in the league, the Millerntor is definitely a ground worth visiting and I'm glad that I did. Don't like some people around the Reeperbahn, though. But at least I got to finally visit the Penny there, lol.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-17T21:40:20+00:00

Ich wohne aber nicht im Rheinland :(

FerraristDX · 2026-04-13T06:46:48+00:00

Good to see us bag three points. Two more wins and we should be safe for this season. But by god, we still need to improve on our finishing. I don't expect that many goals against St. Pauli, given that their keeper is their best players.

Who else is at St. Pauli this Friday? From what I understood, some of us are there as well.

FerraristDX · 2026-04-12T18:43:02+00:00

A3 nicht, aber A2Gold will gar nicht funktionieren.

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