Again, I always see a lot of talk about the potential of Hertha. Berlin is a major city with a massive population and a big tourist draw, with one team in the top league that plays in a large historic stadium. Should it be expecting more? Why hasn’t it consolidated its success in the way other clubs have? If it’s a monetary issue, it can perhaps be laid on Hoeness- he’s the one who’s supposed to be managing it. It’s hard to say for sure, though. I don’t know what’s really going on behind the scenes. It does sound like the board is getting fed up, though.

Allofs and Schaaf would have done a great job with Berlin, I bet. But they’re special.

You can also question whether establishing a club from Germany’s largest city with a 72000 capacity UEFA-5-Star stadium as a rather anonymous mid-table team that currently averages around 42000 per home game is such an achievement? Maybe it is. I don’t know what circumstances Hoeness had to deal with.

Hoeness might have just made one of the smarter moves of his managing career by appointing Lulu as coach. Lulu wants to play attractive and highly tactical football in the long run, and this could help boost the profile of the team and help attract more fans. Which again would help the economic side of things.

But I wonder what the combo of Bremen’s Klaus Allofs+Thomas Schaaf could have done with Hertha in the same timeframe…

He was available? No idea, Ben. He’s done well in some cases, and confusingly in others. I think the question is whether the board/us the fans want Hertha to stay where they are- mid-table, occasionally a bit lower- or if the ambitions are higher. I keep hearing about the potential of Hertha, but nothing ever seems to come of that. Also, what I like about Preetz is that he’s definitely a Hertha man. No arguing with that. I don’t know how he’d do, though, since Hoeneß isn’t giving him the training he needs…