"Extremely worrying": Braunschweig releases Härtel

The sporting leadership of the club had almost no other choice in view of the performances. In the second division, the Braunschweig team has so far scored only five points, the fewest in the league. So far, they have scored only six goals. Especially on the offensive, there was no recognizable game idea under the new coach. Also Härtel had appeared helpless after the weak conception in Elversberg.

After successful stations with the 1. FC Magdeburg and Hansa Rostock Härtel had taken over the Braunschweiger only before this season as successors of Michael squints. But the hoped-for sporting further development, which the supervisory board and management no longer trusted the promotion coach Schiele, failed to materialize under the successor.

"After the clear defeat in Elversberg - especially considering how this came about - we were no longer convinced, however, to create the turnaround in this constellation," said sports managing director Peter Vollmann.

Even more than Härtel, however, Vollmann is criticized by the fans. The club could not compensate for the departures of Immanuel Pherai (Hamburger SV) and Filip Benkovic (Trabzonspor). The serious shoulder injury to goalkeeper Anthony Ujah recently exacerbated the quality problem. Of the eleven new arrivals of the summer so far only the Finnish international Robert Ivanov proved with cutbacks as a reinforcement.