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Report nowAlmost four months ago, GC sporting director Alain Sutter was full of praise for Gerald Scheiblehner. Now the Austrian is out of a job as coach of the Hoppers. In an interview with blue Sport, Sutter explains the decision.
"Nothing has changed in my assessment of Scheiblehner as a coach and a person, despite his release. I am delighted with his work and the way he has led the team and the coaching staff. His dealings with all the staff were exemplary. That's why the decision was so difficult for me and I could never have dreamed that I would ever make this decision."
"A new coach always gives a new impetus. There's a different approach, different input in training, two new assistant coaches with different personalities.
It's not about making a revolution and turning everything upside down because everything was bad. Instead, a lot of things were good, but the results just haven't materialized yet. (...) That's why we need a new impetus now, without throwing everything we've achieved so far into the garbage can.
If we manage to stay in the league, it will have a lot to do with the first nine months and what we have achieved there."
"It made me extremely sad that I made this decision, because there are always personal components to it. The relationship I was able to build with Scheiblehner was very close. That's why this feels very humbling. But that's part of my position, that sometimes you have to make decisions that you don't want to make - in the interests and for the good of the company as a whole."
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