Interesting read - 10 years of Magath transfers... 107 players... translated.

[Huxley]

Some real finds!

http://www.sportsaal.de/2012/01/19/10-jahre-magath-eine-transferbilanz/

Google translation:

10 years Magath - a balance sheet

107 players bought the clubs from Felix Magath since the summer of 2001 - at least 90 transfers them go to the sole account of the coach - manager Magath. He and his transfer policy polarize , since he is responsible for both areas , the number of transfers explodes . The autocrat of the VfL ​​Wolfsburg is accused wildest Transfergebahren . Reason enough to take stock of the past 10 years, and to shed light on the development of M. Felix as coach manager detail. Here, each player goes through the sports hall individually and divides them into five categories.
The result:

Of the 107 players bought 97 were evaluated. 24 players counted as hit , who make up 24.7 percent. Another 17 players ( 17.5 %) are as well to assess - so at least 42 percent of recruits have left a lasting impression on Magath or were at least sensible purchases that under certain circumstances only because of adverse circumstances (eg injury ) could not enforce . Contrast, are 29 transfer flops ( 30.0 %) and 15 players ( 15.5 %) who have expectations rather not met. To really assess whether Magath has achieved in the league compared a good rate here , you would have this expense for all other managers / clubs operate - but this is hardly possible , because except Allofs and the duo Nerlinger / Hoeness no one so long allowed to work constant.

So how Magath 's works to be seen ? As already described, he has in his time as coach manager in Stuttgart, Schalke and Wolfsburg much stronger than shopped without superiors ( beginning in Stuttgart , Munich). Here, some appears to be run according to the principle of trial and error . From 2007-2009 he was insane hit lucky with 11 direct hits and only 8 rivets , some of whom were still young players , of which you are anyway not much hoped in Wolfsburg. 11 hit already form a whole team - namely exactly those who took the title after Golfsburg 2009.

In the financial volume that Magath had at Bayern , Wolfsburg and Schalke available, 42.2 percent positive hit rate seem a little weak on - especially when you consider that the 45.5 per cent are negative hit ratio of Magath and for the 29 flops issued a total of € 61.6 million ( including Jurado or Podolski , where one can argue about the most negative rating - but I see them as legitimate to ) .

Except for 2007/ 08 ( 11) and 2009/ 10 (6 ), there was no season more than 5 good commitments, but in contrast, are often uncomfortable 6-8 transfers. The 78 players who bought Magath in the past five years , are a clear expression of the Transferwut that caught Magath, since he is well respected autocrat . His latest eight purchases , which we want to impose the judgment until the summer will also decide whether Magath again someone will be so horrendous shopping as currently VW CEO Winterkorn.

As a final conclusion was said Magath transfer activities are entertaining , they are also successful in many parts, but produce too much money chasing too many failures and should at least nich are among the top ratings under Bundesliga managers.


Season + + + 0 - without Bew . total players

2001/ 02 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
2002/ 03 1 1 1 0 0 0 3
2003/ 04 3 2 2 1 4 0 12
2004/ 05 1 1 0 2 1 0 5
2005/ 06 1 0 0 1 1 0 3
2006/ 07 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
2007/ 08 9 1 2 1 4 0 17
2008/ 09 2 2 2 2 4 0 12
2009/10 2 4 2 3 4 0 15
2010/11 3 2 2 2 5 2 16
2011/12 0 1 2 3 5 8 19


24 17 12 15 29 10 107


The Ratings:

2011/2012 ( VfL Wolfsburg) :

Träsch (VfB Stuttgart - 9,000,000 ) : Of course , any transfer of the summer transfer window in 2011 remains to be assessed with caution , finally is just a six-month integration phase after players and club . In Träsch However , one must realize a few things : even if the rings with VfB was tough , 9 million euros for the player in just a moon price. Nothing against the capabilities of Träsch , but that's a joke. His achievements justify this sum also not even close - even if it is long term for leading players in Stuttgart, this price is too high. Since Träsch not particularly effective fills the targeted Magath place on the Six, may soon castled , especially if one considers the entire new entries, Magath has brought . It is an exciting story , whether Träsch not even be a flop .

google translate the rest yourself as the list is too long,

[Baszab]

What's the bottom line ?
Gut oder scheisse ?

[Huxley]

sorry. list was to big to paste. if you click on th original link there is an arrow next to the players name that indicates great, good, average, poor purchase.

[Huxley]

Great buys (have skipped the Bayern dayswhich iclude lucio, van bommel etc)
Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Olympiakos Piräus – 2,000,000
Patrick Ochs (Eintracht Frankfurt – 3,000,000)
Zvjezdan Misimovic (1.FC Nürnberg – 4,000,000)
Raùl (Real Madrid – 0)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (AC Mailand – – 14,000,000
Christian Gentner (VfB Stuttgart – 2,500,000):
Diego Benaglio (National Funchal – 1,500,000)
Marcel Schäfer (TSV 1860 München – 1,200,000):
Makoto Hasebe (Urawa Red Diamonds – 0)
Edin Dzeko (FK Teplice – 4,000,000):
Sascha Riether (SC Freiburg – 500,000
Grafite (Le Mans FC – 7,500,000)
Ashkan Dejagah (Hertha BSC Berlin – 0)
Josué (FC Sao Paulo – 1,460,000)
Cacau (1.FC Nürnberg – 0)
Horst Heldt (Sturm Graz – 0)
Fernando Meira (Benfica Lissabon – 7,500,000)

involved in development of
Julian Draxler (FC Schalke 04 U19), Joel Matip (FC Schalke 04 II), Andreas Ottl (FC Bayern München II), Paolo Guerrero (FC Bayern München II), Kevin Kuranyi (VfB Stuttgart II)

[Baszab]

Yeah but what's the verdict on FM ?

Gut oder verkakte ?

[FPT]

And this doesn't include the young players he's helped... Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Kevin Kuranyi and Timo Hildebrand.

This guy is no joke. You can see why I have faith in him leading the rebuild.

[Bedford White]

The last paragraph of the article reads as follows;

"Overall we have to say, that Magath can deal with young people - this myth comes but mostly from his Stuttgart time, when he formed a troupe out of nowhere with the (already available existing) young guns to Hildebrand, Hinkel and Kuranyi and from his time in Schalke, where he successfully paved four talents the big leap into professional football. In his Wolfsburg and Munich times, however, that succeeded in hardly - what could be also due to that its financial possibilities are significantly better / were and he therefore was not the compulsion to put young players and instead randomly according to the principle top or flop buys people / bought."

So what do we deduce? I read this as Felix can promote youth sucessfully. When money is tight he get's the bst from what he has. When there is money available he has a fairly good eye with a 50/50 sucess rate with transfers of established professionals into his teams.

I think Felix will do well for us and provided the players are willing to work hard, we can all look forward to a bright future.