How Rapid could reduce the risk when looking for a coach

The average tenure of trainers is in Deutschland at 2.2 and in England at 2.1 years. In Austria It has been significantly shorter for several years and fell again this autumn from 1.2 to 1.01. Richard Fairbank billionaire and founder of the US financial services company Capital One, once said: “Most companies spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent correcting their mistakes.” Does this pattern also apply to football?

In Leverkusen became Erik ten Hag fired after just two games. At the SHOT hit it John Sacramento after nine games, during Peter Pacult at the WAC had to leave after five games. Peter Stöger it hit Rapid after 14 Bundesliga games.

Make mistakes when choosing a trainer serious consequences. High severance payments are one thing. For Erik ten Hag it was all around five million euros. Additional costs often arise for new players if the new coach has different ideas. These mistakes also damage the trust of Sponsors, Fans and the team. Unfortunately, there is often not enough questioning about what went wrong when recruiting coaches – and those responsible remain in office.

However, many clubs often have unclear ideas about their style of play. There are missing Standards and Principles and you don’t really know what the club stands for in terms of sport. As a result, the coaches alone decide what happens in the sporting area and their performance can only be measured by results. This Ambiguity recently also became a storm coach Jürgen Säumel addressed.

Rapid sports director Markus Katzer emphasized that they are looking for a trainer who is not just… Salary structure fits and has the necessary Reputation as well as Experience but also “thinks modern football”. That sounds good, but it’s nothing more than a (modern) phrase and says nothing about the way Rapid should play football in the future. Just an example: Pressing is often referred to as modern, but it already existed Ernst Happel.

In any case, at Rapid the change from Robert Klauss to Peter Stöger The question was raised as to whether the profile we were looking for was really that clear, given that the two coaches played completely opposite ways.

Many clubs often only select coaches from a small group Candidatesthat are known to you or from consultants be suggested. But there is a growing one international trend: More and more clubs are betting Headhunter to search specifically. Trainers are increasingly being trained on the basis of Data identified. Important questions are: Which Game idea is the coach following? How successful is he? Take over of a new team? Does the team over-perform or under-perform compared to theirs financial opportunities? How well does he design it? Player substitution? Does he promote it? Development young talent?

This data-supported basis is followed by a comprehensive one Recruitment processthe Job-Interviewsthe integration of various Departments in the club and Personality tests includes.

So there are clear approaches to this Chances of success in the selection of trainers to increase and long-term developments to promote. I’m excited to see what processes our clubs will use to select their new coaches in the near future.