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#4 Thomas Schaaf
German manager Thomas Schaaf might not be a well-known name outside Germany, but ask any Werder Bremen fan and he'll speak highly of the former gaffer. Schaaf is a legendary figure at Weserstadion and won the Bundesliga in 2004 with the Green Whites. He also managed to lift the DFB Pokal thrice with the side.
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The club saw consistent Champions League football after their title-winning season, but soon, the departure of key players saw the club lose their aura. Schaaf still stuck around for a while and saw the development of players like Naldo, Mesut Ozil and Marko Marin, but the rise of clubs like Borussia Dortmund, Wolfsburg (for a little while) and everpresent Bayern Munich meant that Bremen were no longer relevant.
In 2013, Schaaf left his post at Bremen but he's still eulogised as a master tactician and someone who gave it all at the club after his near four-decade stay (as a player and a manager).
Schaaf had two spells at Eintracht Frankfurt and Hannover 96, but they didn't last for more than a season. You could argue that the clubs didn't have the necessary resources for Schaaf to implement his ideology. Give him decent players and he could still deliver!
