BVB boss Watzke suddenly defends Bayern
Created: 01/09/2022, 06:49 AM
By: Patrick Mayer
Managing Director of Borussia Dortmund: Hans-Joachim Watzke.
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The TV money remains a controversial topic in the Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund boss Hans-Joachim Watzke takes the side of Bayern Munich.
Munich / Dortmund - There is a big point of contention in the Bundesliga *: the distribution of the TV money.
Because: The gap between the respective clubs is very large, measured among other things by participation and success internationally and consistency nationally.
There is a lot of money involved, year after year.
TV money in the Bundesliga: FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund are the big earners
A comparison: As the
kicker
reports, the then promoted Arminia Bielefeld received 34.31 million euros from media revenues in the 2020/21 season as the last in the ranking.
Borussia Dortmund * (second place) and FC Bayern Munich * (first place), on the other hand, came to 94.95 million and 105.4 million euros.
Made a difference of 70 million euros between Arminia and Bayern at the time - in just one season.
Recently, there was resistance to this distribution key, and several clubs have complained.
According to media reports, VfB Stuttgart and FC Augsburg were among them.
This imbalance cannot be remedied with socialism.
Hans-Joachim Watzke on the TV money
So does the TV money have to be redistributed soon? In favor of the clubs that get less? “That is not a viable option,” said the new chairman of the supervisory board of the German Football League (DFL), Hans-Joachim Watzke, in an interview with
Spiegel
: “If you take 50 million euros away from a club and distribute the money to the 35 other clubs , then you do not increase the likelihood that one of the beneficiaries will become a master craftsman. ”To put it into perspective: Watzke is currently working for the DFL and as managing director of BVB at the same time. And thus the boss of one of the big earners in German football.
In his opinion, however, every single club would benefit economically from “someone pulling the irons out of the fire for Germany,” said Watzke, referring to the Bundesliga giants * from the west and the south-east.
He was against "taking something away from a club that belongs to it," he said.
FC Bayern * also dominates, “because it has done a lot right for 50 years.
This imbalance cannot be remedied with coercive measures and socialism ”.
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In the conversation with Der Spiegel
, the Dortmund boss also criticized the
fact that in the current phase of the coronavirus pandemic * no spectators are allowed in German football stadiums.
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“It would have been correct to allow a percentage of the stadium's capacity.
8,000 spectators can be distributed in Signal Iduna Park * and with our infrastructure in such a way that they have practically nothing physically to do with each other, "said Watzke:" Football can't keep up such ghost games for long.
That will kill an entire branch of the economy. ”
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