By Peter Vice
Presumptive new Hertha BSC head-coach Sandro Schwarz officially bade farewell to Dynamo Moscow yesterday, in the process denying that he had reached agreements with any other club.
At the Hertha general meeting over the weekend, meanwhile, the club’s disarray touched every last administrative figure forced to attend.
In announcing that Sunday’s season finale would be his final match in charge of FC Dynamo Moscow on Sunday, former FSV Mainz 05 trainer Sandro Schwarz denied that he had an agreement in place to coach a different club. While the 43-year-old is widely expected to be unveiled as the new Hertha BSC trainer in the coming days, it might be the case that the ironing out of further details will delay the appointment.
“My job was to remain with this team so that, as I’ve always said, we see this season through,” Schwarz noted, “but the situation in the world is complicated and today was my last game in Russia. I can say that I have no agreements in place with another club.”
Schwarz may not have felt comfortable divulging his ongoing negotiations with “die alte Dame” to the Russian media. Unlike some of his other German compatriots working in Russia at the time that war broke out on the continent (Markus Gisdol, for example), Schwarz did not resign his post when the Putin regime opted to invade Ukraine in late February.
As for the state of Hertha itself, a rather chaotic weekend at the club’s general meeting saw mutiple fractures. Interim president Thorsten Manske resigned, investor Lars Windhorst shake off jeers and whistles from members calling for his resignation, and chief executive Fredi Bobic apologize profusely for his personnel mistakes amid a hail of heckles.
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