The new job description outlined Oliver Kreuzer in one sentence: "He must be good, must win all games and must be favorable." Then scurried very, very briefly a smile on the face of the sports director. It should be the only one to remain at this lunch at the Hamburger SV did what he had to do recently in unpleasant regularity: explain the sacking of a coach.

The previous evening cruiser was specially flown to Munich, where he met up with his buddy Thorsten Fink. In a 90-minute interview he said Fink, why the HSV must complete the term of office of the coach after exactly 700 days . "Thorsten was disappointed and shocked," Kreuzer said the day after. "But he has to live with it now."

Such words had been listening to Antonio Gil, Armin Veh, Bruno Labbadia or Thomas Doll in the recent past. No other Bundesliga club including interim solutions in the past decade, more worn than the coach Hamburger SV twelve. With the latest release, after all the club has to be stated that the expulsion was stylish. But nothing more.

"I'm a guy like Jürgen Klopp"

Finally, the list of deficiencies in the team is overseen by Fink was significantly larger than their own entitlement mentality of the coach. Thorsten Fink as his service on 17 October 2011 took at HSV, he left the same time raising the bar of his work at a record high set, "I'm a guy like Jürgen Klopp," the new coach said in his mind, and with fans and was responsible dreamed. There is now also in the Hamburg Arena an offensive spectacle a la BVB, with extreme Pressing, gates and a dream team that will play for the championship?

A wishful thinking that soon gave way to the harsh reality. Although Fink helped in his first season the team to relegation and led it directly to number seven. But his own claim and the mighty proud of the environment in Hamburg, he was almost never meet. That, of all people, a 2:6 at the supervised still Klopp of Dortmund, the sudden expulsion of Fink initiated, is the perfect end of a purpose alliance that has long had severe cracks.

"No consistency, no clear line in the games, it was always a little confusion to see," Kreuzer said on Tuesday afternoon. The erratic performance from the previous season have Fink supposed to fix, but it had not succeeded. "We did not believe that Thorsten Fink still creates a turnaround," said cruiser.

Administrator of the crisis symptoms

In fact, the ousted coach had last shown only as administrator of the crisis symptoms. In just two years of his reign Fink did not make it, the HSV einzubimsen a game philosophy to correct the glaring defensive weakness and get the most out of the squad not bad equipped with such stars as Rene Adler and Rafael van der Vaart. Solely with the disaster in Dortmund, he chose three different play formations - apparently for the leaders to sport cruisers and Chief Executive boss Carl-Edgar Jarchow a final proof of the dangerous volatility Finks and a lack of competence.

They were joined also errors in the external representation. After the defeat in Dortmund Finch missed the expiry of the next morning in Hamburg, because he wanted to fly instead to his family in Munich. "You could have flown later," Finch admitted Tuesday afternoon, after he had previously adopted yet by the crew.

That he also still rehearsing a public power struggle with cruisers in the past week, is expected to also not have proved Image enhancement in their own right. While Finch announced to want to actually integrate the abservierten defender Michael Mancienne and Slobodan Rajkovic into the team again made it clear cruisers that there is no going back for the duo, as well as the exiled into the second team Gojko Kacar and Robert Tesche. One especially for Fink equally superfluous as painful rebuke.

Only Oenning was worse

However, he was apparently convinced of it until recently, to be the right man in the right place. "The club is bad to my heart," said Fink, "I would have liked to have stayed longer." He was convinced that would be set in the next two years under his leadership successes. But He forgot one thing: His contract ran anyway just nine months. That it also with a winning percentage of 32.8 percent of the second-worst coach of HSV in the past ten years Oenning (7.1%) was likely to have fired only after kicking five season game days.

Now running at HSV again the search for Mister X. First, take amateur coach Rodolfo Cardoso and female youth coach Otto Addo the business. But the duo will probably only in the HSV derby on Saturday against Werder Bremen care (15.30 clock, Sky / welt.de). At the latest after the club wants to present a new trainer.

Among the candidates are the native of Hamburg Stefan Effenberg, Slaven Bilic (Besiktas), and - despite the denials of cruisers - including Markus Babbel. Two other traded coaches are not competing against the Fink successor. Franco Foda has not been contacted by "world" information from the club. And Felix Magath said on himself: "I am not a coach available for HSV," said HSV European Cup winner in 1983 of the "image".

In addition, the release of Fink him surprise: "In May, the Supervisory Boss Ertel and Jarchow declared as CEO that Finch was the right man for HSV and now he is no longer I can after just five games, only surprised.?. "