Sorry, Max, @GNetzer, but after your outstanding performance in your fourth Buschmann interview, for me this was one of the weaker Tribünengespräche I’ve listened to in recent times.
Why? For the most part, it was due to Holger Badstuber himself, who to me exuded a permanent air of annoyance and unwillingness, as if he didn’t like the whole interview situation. It seemed to me that being asked questions he was expected to answer in a meaningful way was something he was not used to and which put him in a fairly uncomfortable state throughout.
This certainly didn’t help you, but your way of yet making it an interesting interview was also not ideal. Badstuber gave a lot of rather general and unspecific answers, all of which you let him get away with, leaving me screaming internally: „stay with it! Ask the follow up! Force him to elaborate more!“
For example: Badstuber mentioned several times that Heynckes made his players fit. That, obviously, was something he considered an important quality of Heynckes as a coach. Yet you left it at that even though he gave you multiple opportunities to become more specific: how exactly did he make his players fit? What tools and methods did he use in training? Was fitness for him only about training or did he also have ideas about eating and regeneration? And so on. The same is true for Badstuber’s statements about what he learned tactically from Guardiola. I would have loved for him to provide some insight into Guardiola’s training methods. You missed out on this opportunity too.
And then there are some minor things such as: is it normal for coaches not to talk to their players (as Ancelotti or Weinzierl seemed to have done)? What is the working relationship between a coach and a player typically like in general? How can we picture this as the outsiders looking in we are? Or how do coaching methods and ways of preparing for a game differ between club football and national team football in general? I could go on.
On the whole, I understand that an interview with an active professional player of Badstuber’s caliber is an achievement in and of itself, no doubt, and I congratulate you on that, but after your stellar fourth interview with Rafael Buschmann, this one left me with a sense of regret and wanting more.