Sports director Roland Virkus got angry in the face of supposedly exaggerated expectations of Borussia Mönchengladbach. “What bothers me is reading that we ONLY played 2-2 in Wolfsburg,” said Virkus on Friday and then really got going.
“What did we start for?” He asked and gave the answer himself: “We started to bring this club back to calm waters! To unite fans and team again, to wipe out the gap of the derby defeats! We have a achieved a few of these points, but are in the middle of a process.”
In the environment with “clubs that can invest 30, 40 million euros, which, like the top four, have twice the market value of ours – you create claims that are completely far from reality,” said Virkus. “That upsets me.”
Borussia is “again compared with international clubs”, “with group-managed clubs that don’t have to react but can act, even in the crisis. You’re comparing apples with oranges.” The cup-out at the second division Darmstadt 98 (1: 2) was “shit”.
Trainer Daniel Farke jumped to Virkus’ side. “But we’re really screwing up RB Leipzig here, Cologne get five here, the coach says his team’s got their ass full. We scored a point against Bayern! We’ve done everything that’s important to the fans.” , he said.
Jonas Hofmann and Yann Sommer back soon?
Meanwhile, Jonas Hofmann can hope for a fairly speedy recovery after his shoulder joint rupture. “It’s more a matter of weeks than months for him. I hope that we’ll see him before the World Cup, the chances are pretty good,” said Farke.
In the case of Swiss national goalkeeper Yann Sommer, the ankle injury is “with capsule involvement. Further investigations are ongoing, that’s difficult to predict. I hope we’ll see him in Borussia’s dress before the World Cup,” said Farke: “I’m selfish there.”
Stefan Lainer will also be missing against Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday (6.30 p.m.) due to a gastrointestinal infection. Christoph Kramer is back in team training and therefore a squad option. In any case, Ko Itakura and Florian Neuhaus will not return before the World Cup break.
