"Would have liked to help": Magath predicts tough season ahead for HSV! | OneFootball

Felix Magath actually wanted to become president of HSV. But the club legend now has to watch the first Bundesliga season in seven years from afar.

Felix Magath, HSV legend and goal scorer in the legendary 1983 European Cup final in Athens, views the Bundesliga return of his beloved club with skepticism. In the Youtube format “Beidfüßig – die Bundesliga-Prognose,” the 72-year-old made it clear that there is still a lot of work to be done at the Rothosen.

“The way HSV performed in preparation and also in the cup match, it seems that not much fits together,” Magath explained. Although they managed to progress in the DFB-Pokal, the performance revealed more weaknesses than confidence. “Depending on how long it takes to turn this new team into a good squad, HSV will have difficulties at first.”

The former midfielder is also critical of the lack of experience in the squad and on the coaching bench. Head coach Merlin Polzin, who led the team to promotion, has no Bundesliga experience. The same applies to a large part of the team. “Therefore, HSV will probably struggle at the beginning,” said Magath.

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HSV board rejected Magath’s candidacy!

He does not hide the fact that he would have liked to take on responsibility himself. “I would have loved to help HSV, because HSV is my club and it will always remain my club,” the Aschaffenburg native made clear.

But a renewed collaboration did not come to pass: Magath’s application for the presidency of HSV e.V. was rejected by the board just a few months ago. According to media reports, the decisive factor was that he was not convincing in terms of content and, above all, wanted to restructure the supervisory board according to his own ideas. In addition, Magath revealed gaps in his knowledge regarding the club’s statutes.

The 1980 European champion himself does not accept this reasoning. “That was a political decision,” he thundered at the end of May on the NDR program Sportclub. “No one in my long career has ever come up with the idea that was given to me as a reason.”

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