268 Prank?
In the past six Bundesliga seasons, Hamburg won the highest ranking third in the Bundesliga. He participated in the European Champions League, but was eliminated in the group stage with a slump. The lowest ranking is eighth. On average, the overall result is fourth and fifth. Overall, it is not bad. This is why Hamburg has higher average level than the overall transfer market in the Bundesliga before each season. After the investment is high, it will make fans full of expectations, but the ranking at the end of the season has not made them much progress.
Not to mention the distance, Hamburg's performance declined last season, from fifth in the league in the previous season to seventh in the league. Maybe it seems that the ranking has only dropped by two places, but if you look at the gap in the standings carefully, at the end of the O9 season, Hamburg was only 8 points away from champion Wolfsburg's points!
But last season's Hamburg was as far away from champion Bayern Munich!
One of the reasons for the team's failure last season was civil strife at the top, which was too common in world football. The conflict between Chairman Hoffman and manager Bairsdorf caused turmoil at the top. In the end, Bairsdorf left angrily because Hoffman fired Rabadia, whom he supported.
Before looking for a new coach in Hamburg, the club also needed to arrange new positions quickly. Unlike the structure of other European clubs, German clubs explicitly stipulate that they cannot hold private shares. The maximum private holding shares is 49%. The club itself owns 51% of the shares, which means that the club cannot become the private property of a certain person or a group. Therefore, the club often needs to be rational and complete in the club's power structure. The club also has a board of directors and a supervisory board composed of member fans. In general, German clubs still fully exert the rigor of the Germans.
Hoffmann's favorite Summer and Bierhoff both refused his invitations one after another. Anyone with some reputation in Germany seemed unwilling to work under Hoffmann for fear of being deprived of his autonomy.
At the end of May, Hoffman accepted his appointment as a sports manager with former player Bastian Reinhardt, who had no previous management experience.
Hamburg fans are naturally unable to satisfy this, but perhaps they are speechless about Hoffman. They can only hope that the board of directors will not renew Hoffman's contract contract next summer. As long as the board of directors votes to deny the renewal, Hoffman will leave the position of chairman next summer.
In the early morning of June 4, Reinhardt, who had just taken office, worked diligently. He got up early and had to work at the club. For players' contract renewal and negotiations in the transfer market, no matter who the new coach is or when he comes, these jobs cannot stop.
But as soon as he drove away from home, he received a call from Chairman Hoffman. He turned his direction to Hoffman's house to pick up Mr. Chairman, and then headed to the Sofitel Alt Wall Hotel.
When Reinhardt's car drove into the hotel parking lot, the reporters who were squatting outside had already keenly noticed that something unusual would happen.
Hamburg is the media capital of Germany. Major media outlets across the country have set up headquarters in Hamburg, and there are more than 10,000 media-related companies!
It is almost impossible to have something to hide from the truth here.
The traditional media industry has released news, and it is difficult for programs to suddenly intersperse news, but the Internet media in the new era is already in a turmoil!
"Hamburg sports manager Reinhart's car drove into the Sofitel Alt Wall Hotel! Situ Yunbing lives here!"
“The Hamburg Club may be brewing shocking news!”
"Will Hoffman surprise Hamburg fans?"
Who knows what Hoffman and Reinhardt are feeling now.
Reinhardt has just retired, and even if he put on the ball in the battle suit, it will not be a big problem, so he is very energetic.
The car had been parked in the parking lot for more than a minute, but neither of them got off.
"Isn't this a joke?"
Reinhardt looked at Hoffman with doubt.
The whole world knows the news that Situ Yunbing resigned from Monaco. There are many speculations about his next stop, but none of them are practical.
Although Hoffmann was over 50 years old, he looked very young. At this time, he frowned and was a little hesitant.
"I don't know if it's a misunderstanding. No one can help me verify if the person who called me was him."
"He called you? Didn't you invite him on your own initiative?"
"My God, I'm going to invite a coach who just won the Champions League and swept France? Who can give me this courage?"
Reinhardt was confused and asked, "Is he who took the initiative to come and be the coach of Hamburg?"
Hoffman nodded and said, "That's what he said on the phone. He asked me if Hamburg was looking for a new coach? I said yes, he said he wanted to apply for a job. When will the Champions League coach want to find a job by himself?"
Reinhardt was even more confused and said, "Didn't there be any wealthy families invite him?"
Hoffman said casually: "I thought so too, but after going back and doing some homework, I may not have invited him. British giants don't need to think about it. Manchester United and Arsenal cannot change coaches. Chelsea coach Ancelotti is also the Champions League coach. He won the league championship just one year. Manchester City, the fourth in the UK, changed coach only half a year ago. Mancini did a good job, at least leading Manchester City into the Champions League next season.
The head coach of the Serie A giants Inter Inter Milan has left, but how could they invite Situ Yunbing? Roma, the second-place, has made such great progress. If the club fires the head coach, it will be crazy. AC Milan heard that it is talking to Allegri. It is estimated that the young coach Leonardo was already scared last season. There is no need to say about La Liga. Real Madrid invited Mourinho and Guardiola was so successful in Barcelona. As for the third and fourth-place team in La Liga, I think they must be very satisfied to enter the Champions League next season. Anyway, the La Liga champion has nothing to do with them, so there is no need to make trouble.
In our league team, Magath led Schalke O4 to the runner-up and made significant progress, Van Gaal led the team to the championship, Heinx did a good job in Leverkusen, Schaff has worked in Werder Bremen for so many years, who would invite him?
Among the clubs that openly invited him, Lyon is the most famous one, but he doesn't seem to be interested."
Reinhat nodded and sighed: "Then we are lucky!"
Hoffman pushed the door and got out of the car. When he walked towards the elevator, he said: "Who knows, he is a mysterious Chinese, and we don't know the way of thinking of the Chinese. Maybe he needs a challenge. Maybe he gave birth to something we don't know in Monaco. In short, these are not important. If this is a prank, I will go with the flow and invite him to be the head coach of Hamburg in person. He refuses, and we will leave. If this is not a prank..."
Hoffman himself could not imagine that if everything was true, it would be the luckiest and incredible day he had since served as the president of Hamburg.
When Hoffman and Reinhardt knocked on the noble suite where Situ Yunbing was staying, the two of them looked completely dumbfounded when they saw the scene inside the room.
The design style of this hotel is minimalist, giving people a modern and avant-garde yet clean and simple comfort, but now the sand in the living room is pushed to the corner. The TV in the closet is playing videos of Hamburg last season's game. There is a large blackboard in front of the closet with some names of hamburgers written on it. Some people have ticked the back, while others have forks!
The coffee table was filled with notebooks and A4 papers written in English, and waste paper was scattered around the coffee table, while Situ Yunbing and Alonzo were naked in shorts, and their shapes were messy and obviously they were not cleaned up.
After Situ Yunbing reached out and asked to smile to signal the two of them to enter the house, Hoffman and Reinhardt didn't even know whether to find an open space to stand or sit on the sand in the corner.
Alonzo quickly pushed the sand to the front of the coffee table, then quickly kneaded some useless materials on the coffee table into a ball and threw them into the trash can that was almost full, and then went to pour water for the two of them.
Germany is the most popular country in European countries, with about 6o%, which means that 6 of the 10 Germans communicate in English without any problem. This is because both German and English belong to the Western Germanic language family, which is a branch of the Germanic language family. If it is French, Italian, and Spanish, there will be a certain generation gap.
In Germany, the higher the education level, the better the English mastery, and basically start teaching English from elementary school.
So Situ Yunbing doesn't have to learn German in such a hurry. Of course, it is necessary to learn German, but it doesn't have to be so urgent.
After Alonzo brought water to the two, Situ Yunbing solemnly asked Hoffman: "Sir, we have communicated on the phone yesterday. I want to apply for the position of Hamburg coach. I don't know what you need to do to investigate me, or what the interview content is?"
Hoffman had just taken a sip of water and almost sprayed it out. He coughed twice and then calmed down his water cup and asked seriously: "Do you really want to coach the burger?"
Situ Yunbing replied firmly: "Of course! My goal is to lead Hamburg to the Bundesliga championship."
Reinhardt couldn't help but lift his chest up. For some reason, after hearing the Chinese young coach's speech, this is how he boosted morale!
Listen, how domineering!
Win the championship!
No one of the coaches before Hamburg dared to say that!
Of course, if you can't do it, you're bragging, if you can do it, you're awesome.
Referring to his achievements in Monaco, at least no one dares to question his determination and goals now.
Hoffman also felt like he had been given a cardiotherapy shot and immediately said, "Okay, then you are the new coach of Hamburg!"
Situ Yunbing shook hands with him with a smile. Hoffman felt a little ridiculous. At such a sacred moment, he was wearing a suit and tie and actually shook hands with Situ Yunbing who was not wearing a shirt to reach an oral agreement?!
After recovering from his senses, he asked Situ Yunbing in a low voice: "I don't know what your requirements are for annual salary?"
Chapter completed!