BVB: Lucien Favre is the Entrümpler – Sport

• Lucien Favre starts his coaching job at BVB – expectations are high
• The Swiss should first correct everything that went wrong last season.
• "Our goal is qualification for the Champions League," said club director Watzke

Lucien Favre was appointed coach of Borussia Dortmund at the age of five minutes when the club's boss, Hans-Joachim Watzke, had released illusions. "Someone will surely make title dreams," Watzke mocked at the press conference of Friday, but he has not hesitated to collapse on his ambitions at an early stage. "We do not have those title dreams," he said, "our goal is to qualify the Champions League – but that's about all. "For Watzke, the economically necessary is non-negotiable, but he was cautious, almost anxious to formulate higher goals. hid his humility behind the new coach: "Lucien Favre should not be overloaded with an unrealistic expectation. "

For a proclamation of the athletic director Michael Zorc" raise "after a mixed season under coaches Peter Bosz and Peter Stöger fell Dortmund fighting message under the ambitious coach and often succeeded Favre discrete. Converting a last bad work shift requires at least one or two seasons, Watzke said. Favre in turn answered several questions about personal wishes in the team with the succinct sentence: "I'm adapting." The coach, who comes from French-speaking Switzerland, says he's always trying to make the most of special circumstances.

Nowhere did Favre's expectations be so vast

How the circumstances will show up in the new season, white Favre probably not at the moment. In a "difficult transfer market" (Watzke), Dortmund is still trying in the coming weeks to become a high-level striker and get rid of at least four or five players. But how difficult this transfer market can be, it will probably only become apparent when the World Cup is over. So maybe the players will be washed again on the market, for which there is currently no interested party – perhaps also BVB players. The club currently has 30 players under contract. "A smaller team would be desirable," says Zorc. Up to now, central defender Sokratis has been transferred to Arsenal and midfielder Gonzalo Castro has been transferred to VfB Stuttgart. Newcomers to the team are Augsburg goalkeeper Marwin Hitz, central defender Abdou Diallo of Mainz, midfielder Thomas Delaney of Bremen and winger Marius Wolf of Frankfurt

When Zorc talks about the expectations of the Favre team, it's easy to see what went wrong last season. "Lucien Favre's teams have always had a clear structure and philosophy," said Zorc, "and they had a good balance between attack and defense." Especially under Bosz, a high-pressure team played shoulder-to-elbow, so sensitive that BVB fans could have nervous contractions when they heard Favre say, "My wish is that we play very, very high, very high." However, in the past, Favre teams also liked playing for safety and maximizing ball rotation. The 60-year-old scored an average of 1.55 points per league match on his six coaching stations Yverdon, Geneva, Zurich, Berlin, Mönchengladbach and Nice. Extrapolated to 34 games in the season, Favre in Dortmund could reach 53 points. In nine of the last ten seasons, the BVB has scored more than 53 points, compared with only 46 in 201415. Favre not only faces the most promising task of his coaching career in Dortmund, but also faces a particularly difficult challenge. Nowhere were his expectations so overwhelming – even though Watzke tried to minimize them.

Watzke wanted to get Favre more often

"No other Swiss coach has dominated the Bundesliga more than Lucien Favre," said the Neue Zürcher Zeitung but sees pessimistic parallels in the Swiss work, because his teams in Berlin, Gladbach and finally Nice after the first problems of success had. In Berlin, this happened at the beginning of the third season, in Gladbach at the beginning of the fifth. "At some point something strange happens with his teams," queries the NZZ . Favre's contract in Dortmund is valid until 2020.

Watzke confessed that they had "tried to bring Favre to Dortmund before, but that had failed each time, most recently in 2017. Now, finally, you are together with the desired candidate, Watzke wants nothing more than to exploit the potential of BVB. "That's exactly what he's always succeeded in his previous job. "