Comment from the Bundesliga on BVB: May Matthias Sammer?

The ghosts that I have called … Borussia Dortmund currently has to manage two of them.

The first spirit is called success – and shows the disadvantages of BVB. He can be a damn fickle guy. You want it first, but if you have it and you are not permanently caressed by the sporty performance, it shows its other face, its krisenverzerrte grimaces.

BVB does not need to be afraid of that. At the beginning of the season, nobody had dreamed that the words "leaders" and "crisis" would be mentioned in the same breath.

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The question is how Dortmund manages the current phase of weakness. And here is the second spirit at play: Matthias Sammer.

Officials in charge of managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke and director Michael Zorc deliberately took Sammer into the black and yellow boat as an external consultant before the season to once again give BVB a winning mentality. Only Sammer is as active in parallel as a television expert.

As these two functions can be pungent and extremely explosive, showed Friday when Sammer evoked the totally useless defeat of Dortmund in public in Augsburg, Tacheles and the BVB refused the maturity of the championship.

Watzke will have heard the ears, so he will have asked: who is the boss? Can the sammer do it?

I mean: the possibly hurt pride of the BVB officials is not a place. It's precisely because of this uncomfortable way that they have involved Sammer.

In Dortmund, the Granden love to sell the club as the second German force behind FC Bayern. It's a bit of reality, but also a conscious understatement. This is the calculation behind the attack of the Bavarians from the role of the alien. So you have nothing to lose.

Sammer turns differently. He wants to bring his winning gene into the club's DNA. He deliberately addressed the issues in public so that no one could hide. He tore both the manager and the players the blanket.

Policymakers should ask themselves if the team of many young players (especially in the defense) has scored – and will improve in the future. In part, a reflection, also on the advice of Sammers, had already occurred before the season. But Sammer is not enough experience or winning mindset.

For the rest of the fight for the championship, he takes the lead players to Marco Reus and Axel Witsel in the task of bringing the team back on track for success. Sammer knows it: if Dortmund fails, nobody will tear his head. But they should try it with all their might. That's his message.