The VfB gaffer made it clear that, if transfer negotiations involving either player were in the “home stretch”, he probably wouldn’t send either one onto the pitch.
“As of this moment, both of them are in and will play,” the trainer noted, “But we also know how fluid this business can be. One also had to take into account if they’re ready to play. Whether or not they possess the proper attitude to perform is affected by the likelihood of a transfer going through.”
“If a transfer is about to happen, it might not be worth taking a chance,” Matarazzo continued, “I’m optimistic that they’ll have the mindset to take to the pitch on Sunday. The lack of clarity is a problem within the team, but that’s part of football. We’re not the only club who has to deal with something like this.
“If I talk further about it publicly, it makes the issue bigger,” he went on in a seeming attempt to wind the topic down, “It is such that I talk about it as little as possible, so that it affects the team as little as possible.”
Matarazzo was then asked about recent comments by Hertha’s top personnel executive Fredi Bobic suggesting that the transfer window should preferably close before the start of the season.
“I would welcome and support that one hundred percent,” the American said of Bobic’s proposal “Additions and departures make it harder to train procedures and formulate game plans. We’re dealing with it to the best of our ability. But if there was a possibility, I would support it.”
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