Good morning, dear reader,
it’s like this: in every family there are arguments. One says something that he doesn’t mean at all (or maybe he does). The other snaps back. And then?
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The conversation that the Bayern bosses had with their CEO Oliver Kahn last week can be imagined as follows: “Hello, Oli. We have bad news for you, we are planning without you in the future.” And Oli may have answered: “You can’t do that after everything I’ve done for the family!” Then club president Herbert Hainer will have said: “We only want the best for the club.” Whereupon Oli gets a crimson head. And then it really starts.
The club’s management says Oliver Kahn verbally shot at his successor Jan-Christian Dreesen. Kahn contradicted shortly afterwards on Twitter: “The claim that I freaked out when I was informed about the dismissal is definitely not true.” He was only “surprised about this activism, why this decision was brought forward”.
The spectacle that was performed at FC Bayern in the days after Kahn and Hasan Salihamidžić were recalled gives a deep insight. Too many unworthy details come to light: First, a supervisory board meeting on 23.5. to 30.5. relocated to keep the staff discussion away from the last matchday. And then the bosses set the date for the day before the championship. Apparently they no longer believed in winning the title.
After the conversation with Kahn, someone then decided that he didn’t want to or shouldn’t go to the last game in Cologne (the versions differ there). Then it all trickled through to the media – even before the final whistle of the last matchday. And then everyone threw verbal dirt at each other.
Uli Hoeneß even went so far as to publicly deny Kahn’s ability to become CEO. Typical Hoeness. What shoud that? Why does the man have to follow like this?
FC Bayern always wanted to be one big family. “We are who we are!” – There are own song in addition.
Mutual accusations, differences of opinion openly expressed through the media and accusations: In a normal family, you wouldn’t celebrate Christmas together for the next few years.
In the end, everyone stands there like “wrong Fuffziger”. Without humility in front of the fans, just ignored the championship. Other teams would be incredibly grateful if they were to become German champions at all. The Bayern VIPs tear each other apart at the same moment.
Nobody wants people like that in the family.
But FC Bayern München AG is not a family. she is a large company with more than 1,000 employees. It’s about the money. It’s about sponsorship contracts, income from television rights, player and board salaries worth millions. As you know, that’s where the fun ends.
But FCB is not a normal company either. The club has around 300,000 members, 360,000 fan club members, almost 4,500 fan clubs and millions of fans. People who believed in the story of “Mia san mia”, for whom the club is a role model. Now you have to say: war.
The “Mia san mia” finally broke down. Professional football has long since lost its role as a role model, so hardly anyone is surprised by what is happening at FC Bayern. That’s bitter, especially for the many young football fans. Actually, football is about the feeling of being able to do anything together as a team.
At FC Bayern you can gain the realization that together you can destroy everything. Only bad thing: The fans have to watch the horrific spectacle powerlessly.
Congratulations on winning the championship eleventh in a row, that’s all that remains to be said.
What’s up?
Economics Minister Robert Habeck is trying to restart. On Tuesday he wants to meet MPs from the traffic light coalition to find a compromise on the Building Energy Act. He emphasized at the weekend that he hopes that the discussion will now take “a constructive, solution-oriented” direction. There could be adjustments to the start date, to heaters that will be approved in the future or to possible state subsidies. Time is of the essence, as the next session week begins on June 12th.
Actually, the FDP should also be interested in the coalition being able to govern successfully. So a compromise is by no means out of the question. If it hadn’t been for the past few weeks, the liberals instead tried to score points with a little populism. This works as long as you know the majority public opinion is behind you. However, only at the expense of the other coalition partner, as can be seen from Habeck’s polls. In the meantime, of course, nobody is talking about climate protection.
After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s election victory, Turkey is now facing the same problems as before the election. Those familiar with the country expect that Erdoğan will expand the repressions against minorities and those who think differently. The country’s economic problems are unlikely to improve either. In this country, the community of Turkish origin is more divided than ever. Erdoğan fans openly showed the hand signal at motorcades on Sunday evening right-wing Gray Wolves.
Minister of Agriculture Özdemir expressed in words what also appalled my neighbors of Turkish origin: How can it be that people vote for the autocrat Erdoğan while living in a liberal democracy? Özdemir said that for him the motorcades were not a celebration, but “a rejection of our pluralistic democracy that cannot be ignored”. Erdoğan voters living in Germany are part of our country. And that’s why Özdemir is right: we have to open up a dialogue with those who haven’t understood that Erdoğan is unelectable.
reading tips
ex-transport minister Alexander Dobrindt is certain: the harsh action taken by the Bavarian judiciary against the climate activists was justified. In an interview with my colleagues Heike Vowinkel and Miriam Hollstein, he says he has “respect for the judges, who now also impose prison sentences on these offenders.” And then that: The FDP is a big disappointment for him.
