Hannover 96 has been separated, after consultation with the shareholders and the Supervisory Board of Manager Horst Heldt. The club announced on Tuesday afternoon on his Website. Reason for this is that the for the current Bundesliga season goal of a secure midfield place in the table, can not be achieved. “The Athletic Director has insured that this goal with the Transfers is accomplished and the team is competitive. This assessment is not confirmed,” Hannover 96 in the message.

After a further defeat on Saturday in Wolfsburg, Germany, Horst Heldt had gone for him, unusual in the curve, and thanked the Fans. Already then had been speculated about a suicide. Now Hannover 96 stands in front of a new beginning. In the Bundesliga, the lower Saxony are beaten off the Last and are on the verge of relegation to the Second League. Also the new coach Thomas Doll could not rumreißen the helm this year. Soon, the Association wants to introduce a new sporting Director.

child is Heldt the main debt

The 49-year-old Heldt is in Hanover, the main blame for this “sporty how economically disastrous season” (Martin child). The managing Director and shareholder of a child complains to the Manager in the compilation of the most expensive and at the same time also the most unsuccessful squad of the Hanoverian League history. Transfers such as the Brazilian water, the Japanese driver Takuma Asano or the Austrian Kevin Wimmer have the Team not strengthened, but led to a loss for the year of around 18 million euros.

Heldt came in March of 2017, according to Hanover, and the contract is bound by terms until 2021 at the Club. In the first few months, he hired André width rider as a coach, he managed with the 96ern the re-emergence in the Bundesliga and built a squad that is managed in the first year, scores of the classes. First cracks got his relationship to the child, as Heldt during the past season for only the 1. FC Cologne and later to VfL Wolfsburg want to change.

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Christian Otto

His previous Manager-stations were considerably more successful. With the VfB Stuttgart, the two – time National-and 359-time player in the Bundesliga in 2007, the German champion. With FC Schalke 04, he reached from 2010 to 2016, three times the Champions League. (Tsp/dpa)