The thing is, whether they announced it or not the psychological effect was always going to hit. Those managers had already told their squads, doesn't matter if the fans know or not that's gonna hit the players the exact same way. The main issue of announcing a manager leaving or not wasn't present. Gladbach and Frankfurt fans couldn't shit all over Rose and Hütter like they would have.

Eberl made this situation way worse than it had to be. Yes, Dortmund started it and were cunts to contact Rose before Favre was even sacked but there was no rush present. Eberl pushed him to make a decision early on, Rose chose to leave and then Eberl casually did the same thing to Frankfurt.