State of the Club
Since I last wrote, after match day 3, 1. FC Magdeburg have come through quite a development. New transfer Wolf is out until January, and the club signed Lars Fuchs from Jena as his replacement. This has turned out to be a good decision, as Fuchs has already scored 5 goals in the seven matches [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: Baumgart, Hallescher FC, Summary
Crisis has come to Magdeburg
With Magdeburg as of yesterday having the third-worst start of the decade, the time has come to take a long hard look at the club in general, including management and the whole shebang.
In: FCM · Tagged with: analysis, Baumgart, Idiocy, Paul Linz, Regionalliga, Relegation, Youth team
The season has only just started
But you wouldn’t know that from reading FCM-related boards. Two draws from the first two matches of the new Regionalliga Nord season were enough to trigger the “this season’s over, we’ll never get promoted this way, sack the manager” gene in a lot of people.
Looking at it a tad more rationally, nothing’s lost yet [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: analysis, Baumgart, FC Magdeburg, Hamburger SV, VfB Lübeck
Changes…
Since I last wrote, there have been some changes at 1. FC Magdeburg. Following the draw against Babelsberg, the team went into a steady decline, losing three out of four games, among them the important derby against Hallescher FC. Following a 0-3 defeat to Wolfsburg’s reserves at home, the 1. FC Magdeburg board decided to [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: Baumgart, defeat, dismissal, Germania Halberstadt, new manager, Paul Linz, victory
Phew, some weeks
Last time I wrote in here, we were 6 points behind non-relegation. That was just before the away match in Lübeck on March 15. Since then, Magdeburg have not lost a single game and have picked up 11 out of 15 points.
But first things first: in Lübeck, Linz put Steffen Baumgart up front with Najeh [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: Ahlen, Baumgart, Braham, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, luck, Oberhausen, Paul Linz, Reimann, VfB Lübeck, victory
A good start is not a great start
And actually, it is not a start at all. If it is anything start-ish, it is a restart when the German leagues slowly get back into action after the winterbreak. The winterbreak is a sensible thing…bah, who am I kidding? This winterbreak had one great advantage for FC Magdeburg: New manager Paul Linz had 6 [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: Baumgart, Braham, Hamburger SV, victory
Methadone
Well, last Saturday I finally was able to catch some live outdoor football. In the first game since that disappointing outing versus Werder Bremen’s reserves in December, Magdeburg only managed a draw. But in contrast to the abysmal 1-all draw against Bremen, this one saw a new and improved FC Magdeburg team. Not only did [...]
In: FCM · Tagged with: Baumgart, draw, friendly, Schalke 04, transfer news