Köln - VfL Gummersbach before the start of the second half of the season - it's just going right: Four games in ten days, it comes at the start on Tuesday (20.15 clock) in the Cologne Arena against Wilhelmshaven.
And for coach Alfred Gislason on the half-year will ride on the razor blade. For he has to rely on players who are actually already on the hit list. There will be the smallest problem with Sverre Jakobsson. "I know what the coach thinks and plans of the club. I go back to Iceland, "said the intelligence chief, whose contract runs out.
Anders is 26) to Kenneth Klev (29) and Geoffroy Krantz (. The two newcomers who have been disappointed, although both still contract. "I hope that I'll get a chance," said the Norwegian. And Krantz, with three minutes of operating time European Championship bronze medal winner with France, says: "I can do it much better."
But with Viktor Szilagyi and Drago Vukovic their successors already are available. Even Denis Zakharov (23, contract expires) knows that with Adrian Pfahl (25) and Marko Vujin (24) are on his position before the candidate's signature.
Iceland arrow Gudjon Sigurdsson (28) waits for the other hand, the fact that some of the Rhein-Neckar-Löwen and VfL Gummersbach. But he also wants to give everything until the end of the blue and whites.
"What's to discuss the clubs, interests me only in passing. As long as I have the VfL jersey, I give full throttle for this club. "The expected Gislason by all others. "We want to return to the international business. This is the overriding everyone. "
The leading trio of Kiel, Hamburg and Flensburg has slipped away. But behind the weekend there were plenty of backing of the competition. Nordhorn lost Lemgos new coach Markus Baur also gave the same starting points.
Fourth place seems possible for VfL. And there's a nice reward beckons: the Champions League. Because: If a German club to win the Champions League, anyhow here is the fourth. Is that not the case, spread the EHF wildcards. An athletic skills would be safer.
