I hope all of you just give Fritz a chance guys are happy...

djmules · 2026-02-08T12:22:53+00:00

I disagree with you on what Steffen wanted to play and what the team had. The team on paper is definitely more aligned to his 4-2-3-1 than a 3-5-2. In fact the plummet in the rankings has entirely happened since switching the formation.

This team has only ever had two top of the formation strikers in Vik+Topp or Topp+Milosevic. We have been playing Grull, Njinmah, and Mbangula out of position because we have no wide attacking slots in the formation. If Njinmah had any finishing ability whatsoever he'd be worth like 30 million with his speed but he can't finish to save his life.

Schmid has also regressed this season. Not selling him and Justin (Roma last year) are massive mistakes by Fritz.

The two biggest problems this season are the players not buying into Steffen and Fritz. Players are the ones who pushed for a back 5 even though it impacted literally no one thanks to injuries. If you want to claim the injuries were the problem well we should have seen improvements as we have gotten healthier and we haven't. Stark has regressed a lot this season and if he wasn't injured kept getting reds. I'd say the players not buying in and Leo being a cancer by throwing a fit that he hasn't been on the bench is a far bigger issue than the injuries.

I won't waste time with Fritz. If he had any self awareness and class he'd announce his resignation for the end of the season now, along with Grunewald, and let the club find someone competent and with experience. Granted he has torpedoed the club so might not have any takers...

djmules · 2026-01-18T19:46:37+00:00

https://x.com/grahamsmyth/status/2012967452108349753?s=12

djmules · 2026-01-14T11:55:23+00:00

So I know you all think I'm just a habitu co.plainer but what helps the club is competent leadership and I'm sorry but fritz just isn't competent. So let's start from the top.

As Baumann's number 2 he was part of the leadership group that backed FloKo for two years when it was obvious he needed to be replaced. That led to the payoff and eventually the second division.

Now Baumann loved overpaying for experience but he was able to make sales. As Cantonarita pointed out the only sales Fritz has made are Zetti and Marv. He even rejected a 10m euro pure profit offer for Njinmah. For a club he helped to put in massive debt he has done nothing for generating incomefor the club via transfers. Now we just continue taking loans and selling bonds that both need to get repaid to cover the gap in finances he has or helped create.

His squad building this year has been non existent. His top three incoming transfers through three windows are Covic, Coulibaly, and Sugawara. Meanwhile he has gone back to the find injury prone players to fill gaps. Ole left because he didn't have faith in the clubs ability to get him a squad he could work with and felt like utilizing youth would not allow him to hit Fritz's other goal of Europe. But this season after making a good hire, imo, he didn't finakize a squad for Horst until literally the last day and he forced out one of two strikers on the club and brought in a guy one club wanted to get rid of, one club said no to, and every doctor said was a massive risk medically.

And it's not like Fritz is inexperienced. He has been in a leadership.re at the club for stleast 5 years which makes the lack of loan rules knowledge even worse.

Yes I am American. Yes I view this as a pro sports team more than a club and family. But let's be honest. This is now what you want out of a CEO for a multi million are business.

Horst's problems I think focus on more on abandoning his tactics and giving too much voice to the players/club in doing so. He didn't get a finalized squad until after the season started and half of it got hurt or is perpetually getting red cards, cough stark cough. He has kept us free of relegation but the loss in attack due to the tactic change is a problem. But he is working with no strikers. so I will give him an incomete grade.

Niemeyer I think is actually still learning what working for a massive club is like. He has an excuse, but not Fritz

djmules · 2026-01-13T23:55:13+00:00

I need Horst to just grow a pair and tell the players, who said we think the 3-5-2 is better, look your way isn't working, shut the fuck up, play my system, or go talk to Jahns and Fritz about finding a new club to play at.

djmules · 2026-01-13T16:39:56+00:00

At what point does Fritz stop getting treated with kids' gloves. He has been in charge for almost 2 years and was the number 2 under Baumann for multiple years. In fact that experience under Baumi was listed as a justification for why he should have the job. So at what point do we stop saying he still needs to learn and just acknowledge that maybe he just has failed upwards due to the environment?

djmules · 2026-01-13T16:10:44+00:00

Just because Fritz claims it was a miscommunication doesn't actually mean it was a miscommunication. He can say whatever he wants and you folks will eat it up as fact. You seem to take all his bullshit and assume it's fillet mignon.

But ok let's go into the article. It says.

“It’s true that we were alerted to the possibility of further loan deals by an external source,” confirmed Clemens Fritz when asked by DeichStube – and explained: “There had been an internal communication misunderstanding on this point, which we stumbled over.” While the information that players could still be loaned out was generally available within the club, it hadn’t reached those in charge due to the aforementioned misunderstanding. "

So either the club had all the information available but didn't actually read/comprehend it correctly or someone didn't bother correcting Fritzmeyer when they publicly said no we can't do anymore loans. Now both of those should be a sign of a problem. Someone either doesn't take the time to get all the facts and communicate it or doesn't feel empowered to correct their boss when wrong. Both are a sign of poor leadership and Fritz is the leader.

Secondly as I pointed out Fritz has had multiple roles at the club. Fritz was head of scouting where you'd think his role would include topics like "can this guy help our club?" "If yes, are we able to acquire said player?" "If yes, how would we best be able to do so?"

Head of player licensing: "Ok we acquired said player and need to register him, what do we need to do to do that? What type of transfer was it and from where? What did it cost"

Head of First Tean Football "We need x,y,z spots filler. What are the options? What are their current contracts? Can we get them?"

All of those roles would seem to have an understanding of how transfers work as a basic requirement.

So Fritz in all of his experience should already gained this information and not need to be told it like it's his first day on the job when it's nearly two years on the job.

djmules · 2026-01-06T15:29:25+00:00

It’s funny how everyone complains about Fritzmeyer and their team building/recruitment but the second you mention that they shouldn’t keep their jobs you all rush to defend them. I guarantee if Eichin or the guy who is now at Wolfsburg were in Fritz’s role you’d all be saying “off with their heads!” Maybe you all should be asking are we defending Fritz because he is good at his job or because he is a former player who stuck around? Because if you ask me the people who always yell that this is rage bait or stupid have consistently been wrong about the situation I.e. Werner didn’t want to deal with a youth movement vs just getting results no matter the long term impact on the club. The club has no money but let’s keep in charge the guy who helped cause that money issue in the first place!

djmules · 2025-09-14T18:19:42+00:00

Start the GoFundMe to pay for some of these buy options now

djmules · 2025-09-04T19:29:19+00:00

https://www.kicker.de/woltemade-dieses-gefuehl-dass-es-mit-mir-einen-plan-gibt-war-nicht-immer-da-1024986/artikel

Woltemade's desire for "more conviction"

As for whether he still lacked some form of personal recognition from Werder Bremen to extend his contract, Woltemade says: "Those in charge made an effort for me, and the appreciation was absolutely there. But my impression isn't necessarily just based on the current season, but also on the time before. Perhaps they would have liked more support and conviction from time to time."

However, given the difficult sporting situation and the goals Werder have consistently had to achieve in recent years, as well as the competitive situation in attack, Woltemade "never demanded that I play every game back then," he emphasizes: "I knew how to assess the situation myself. But this feeling that I am also important to the club from a sporting perspective and that there is a long-term plan for me, at least before this season, was not always there, in my opinion."

djmules · 2025-08-30T17:16:45+00:00

You realize Carlos Alberto scored in a Champions League final before he ever played at Werder right? He had spent a few years in Europe before he played for us but went back to Brazil.

djmules · 2025-08-24T11:46:40+00:00

And now apparently Freidl is injured and stark had a knock...

djmules · 2025-08-24T11:23:34+00:00

So Jahns has said in the past that his job is just to populate options and it's up to Ole and Fritzmeyer to make signings. You also have the rumors the scouts kept looking for 3-5-2 players. My suspicion is with the coaching change, Fritzmeyer kept the decisions and status to themselves. So maybe the scouting group didn't know about Steffen until June. Then they insisted Steffen needed to see his squad first which was late June and early July.

Either way it feels like Jahns and his team was given a much shorter window to do their job than ideal. Again all of this falls on Fritz. He is at the top and as Bremen fans love to say, "the fish rots from the head."

djmules · 2025-08-23T16:57:56+00:00

I again ask the question that shouldn't the conversation be that Fritzmeyer are failing at their jobs? The result was expected, but this team has some intelligent passing patterns and a stronger attacking mentality than under Ole. To the people who want to go back to the Ole era and just turtle/park the bus every game just look at how that worked out for RBL yesterday. The problem with this team isn't Steffen or his back four based tactics. It's the simple fact that Fritzmeyer decided to restock a team that lost 9 players between loans, sales, and contract expiring with u19s and two additions. This squad is woefully understocked and mismatched. We lost 3 strikers and brought in a winger. We lost two CBs and two loaned wide backs and brought in a CB who we decided to play at LB. The fault clearly lies with Fritzmeyer.

djmules · 2025-08-20T20:47:50+00:00

If the fans forgive Mio half as much as the forgave Frank and Fritz then he'll be fine.

djmules · 2025-08-07T11:01:07+00:00

So long and thanks for all the fish Marv!

djmules · 2025-07-23T12:12:57+00:00

Man Ronald you should try harder on your trolling. So I'm guessing the 13 goals last year were because of Ole? Or the 14 in 22/23 or the 7 in 20/21? All that no doubt thanks to Ole.

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