Strunz reckons hierarchy holds key

The Wolves manager Thomas Strunz is no longer talking about winning the Bundesliga title anymore, he has a whole pile of other worries on his plate. The latest 0-3 defeat away to Schalke at the weekend has brought the former Bayern star down to earth with a bump. He sat powerless next to the fitness coach Holger Fischer in the stands in Gelsenkirchen at the weekend. After the match Strunz said: “We have to make sure that we pick up three points against Hansa Rostock, everything else has to take a back seat.”

Strunz keeps his cool

Despite seeing Wolfsburg make the worse possible start to the second half of the season (no points in 4 matches since the winter break), the new Wolves manager isn’t letting the current situation get to him: “Of course things aren’t looking very rosy, and I imagined my job here to be different than at the moment. We have to critically analyse the things that are going wrong at the moment,” said Strunz.

Not normal…

The new Wolfsburg manager reckons that the current problems go back to the first half of the season: "I have to ask whether or not it was possible to build a hierarchy within the team. Being top of the table for eight rounds after winning ten games, only to lose the next eleven matches is not normal," says Strunz. It seems as if Strunz spotted problems within the team some time ago, and that those problems were wrongly considered to be over as the Wolves beat Bielefeld 5-0. “We have to react accordingly,” added the manager.

Gerets: "Four cup finals"

Erik Gerets must be scratching his head at his side’s current form. He is well aware of the crucial importance of the round 22 clash at home to Hansa Rostock at the weekend: “We have got four cup finals coming at us, which will be crucial for the future of the club,” knows the Wolves coach, whose current record is to put it lightly…worrying. He has had to endure four consecutive defeats, the same amount of defeats which cost his predecessor Jürgen Röber his job…