Bench pressure ballack top topic at bayer
"These are all side conversations that belong at that level when you have a player like that in the squad," leverkusen coach robin dutt said with a laugh. It seemed tortured.
This particular player – who used to be the face of german soccer – was benched for 90 minutes in the all-important chasing game. "I was very happy with the players on the pitch and didn’t see any reason to change," argued the coach of the sixth-placed team in the table.
It was another chapter in the saga of the 35-year-old 98-time national player, whose career is relentlessly coming to an end. Ballack’s last few months in the bundesliga are threatening to turn into an absurd spectacle. "We have three months left on our contract. We’re going to handle this professionally," said bayer CEO wolfgang holzhauser on sky, after publicly breaking with ballack in the days before, accusing him of being unreasonable and calling the midfield star’s 2010 transfer from chelsea FC a mistake.
In the television interviews surrounding the game, holzhauser repeated what had already been said before, but otherwise went on a dive. Sport director rudi voller, who had criticized ballack’s recent weak sporting performances, also did not like to be seen by the journalists. This left a lot of room for speculation. Could ballack’s chapter at bayer have ended sooner than planned?? Bavaria’s fractured relationship with its start threatens to become a test of fracture in the second round of the elections.
"Michael will still make games for us in the future. That’s clear," promised dutt, though. But holzhauser for the first time also opened up for an early departure of ballack. "Should a club come forward that is interested in michael ballack, then we are also prepared to talk about the subject," said the bayer manager on "liga total," but added: "from today’s perspective, that is not the case."The changeover period in germany runs until tuesday.
That ballack himself is apparently toying with the idea of ending his second bayer-ara prematurely was revealed by teammate andre schurrle. "Michael has to make the decision, we should stay out of it," says national player. Leverkusen’s players and coach were conspicuously at pains to emphasize that the ballack issue, at least in the team, was not one at all.
"Today’s game was proof that the team won’t let that affect them," dutt found. Schurrle had even seen bayers "best game this season. The fact is: the game was not a statement by the werksel pro or contra ballack. Without their midfield star, the rhinelanders played with commitment and dominance at times, but missed the chance to make up ground on their champions league rivals against a direct competitor who was extremely short of replacements. More than the equalizing goal by stefan reinartz (57). Minute) after claudio pizarro’s opening goal for bremer (29.) was not in it.
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