soccer-Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund wants to extend the contract with coach Lucien Favre in a timely manner.
“of Course we will go with him in the conversations, and personally, I don’t know what should speak against it,” said BVB sporting Director Michael Zorc the Newspapers of the “Funke MEDIENGRUPPE”. “We all feel in this constellation, probably.” Currently the discussions do not run but still, how Zorc said. The contract of the 61-Year-old is yet to 30. June 2024-dated.
The gallery had missed in the past season, the first German championship since 2012 by two points. In the analysis Zorc was especially the always ailing Defensive, and too many individual errors (“Which have brought us to the end of the fruit of the work”). But also, the own deal with in the meantime, nine points ahead of Champions FC Bayern Zorc looked at in retrospect, is critical. “From the Knowledge that we have strengthened our team, and the player develops further, we have derived that we want to be more offensive in the public goal,” said the former Pro: “We want to at least try to bring the title back to Dortmund.”
the Personnel will disconnect the BVB well-being of the seven Leihspielern, the come back. Including Ex-national player André Schürrle is. The former captain Marcel Schmelzer, who played last sporty no longer want to Zorc, however, hold like. A possible departure of midfielder Julian Weigl is, meanwhile, no theme.
so Far, BVB has obliged the German national team, Nico Schulz and Julian Brandt, and Belgian Thorgan Hazard, for a total of around 75 million euros. Further signings are not on the program. “We will of course continue to try to optimize the squad. But the Bulk is done,” said Zorc.
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