It is difficult to see for the football fan that HSV has fallen so far. In the years that van Der Vaart still played here, they always played at the top of the Bundesliga. A club with this history should win the championship here in this competition. Even though the teams have also become stronger across the width. Could it have been financial mismanagement or other sponsor problems?
You often readed about Hamburg that the problem there is also the media. As soon as Hamburger SV lost three games in a row, the media jumped all over their performance. That must have caused a lot of pressure and that pressure was transferred to the players. But there were also internal problems in the management and the management was replaced too often. No consistency.
vdv was with Hamburger SV from 2005 to 2008. That is too long ago to compare it with today.
@bct_ail I do agree with you these days media can troll, say anything they want by hiring pundits (ex player’s) to say statements that cause more pressure on the player’s, and even fans often get misled by these statements and turn on their own team. Lastly the media pressure won’t be going away anytime soon, hence they’ll have to work really hard if they ever want to compete in Bundesliga again.
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