Türkgücü: Just missed out on big money?

Investor group allegedly almost saved the club

Created: 03/24/2022, 17:01

By: Moritz Bletzinger

Has not found a new sponsor: Türkgücü Managing Director Max Kothny.

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Türkgücü Munich withdraws: no money, no 3rd league.

Allegedly, a large group of investors almost got involved.

But backed down.

Munich - It's over.

Türkgücü Munich is no longer part of the 3rd division.

The club has been on the lookout since investor Hasan Kivran withdrew.

Without new money, the project was doomed to failure.

And that's how it happened now.

Türkgücü has not found a new donor and has no other choice: the Munich team is no longer playing in the 3rd division.

Managing Director Max Kothny complained in a first club announcement: "Despite intensive efforts in the past few weeks, unfortunately no new investor could be found."

And pushes at least part of the blame to the DFB: "The team has shown in the past few weeks that they have never given up.

This also impressed potential financiers, who were ultimately deterred by the high risk of relegation as a result of the impending point deduction.”

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Türkgücü coach Andreas Heraf also sees the hammer penalty as a sticking point: “I think that the eleven points deducted were the big factor.

Because if we had been closer, with the performances that the boys have given in the last few games, we could have achieved non-relegation.

But with the eleven points, the situation was pretty hopeless.

And so nobody was found who wanted to invest money here again," said the Austrian immediately after the decisive works meeting on Heinrich-Wieland-Strasse.

And supposedly it was supposed to be really tight.

The American-Chinese investment company "Pacific Media Group" was probably in negotiations with Türkgücü Munich.

This is reported by "

".

But the investors have backed down and instead probably got into league competitor 1. FC Kaiserslautern, it is said.

According to the report, they want to take over ten percent of the shares.

"Pacific Media Group": Big players in football - group of investors probably shied away from risk at Türkgücü Munich

The "Pacific Media Group" is not a newcomer to the football business.

The group of investors buys clubs in order to promote them in the short term and then sell them again at a profit.

Most prominent example: OGC Nice.

In 2016, the "Pacific Media Group" bought the club from the "Ligue Un" for a reported 23 million euros.

Three years later she gave him back for 100 million euros.

The portfolio of the "Pacific Media Group" currently includes FC Barnsley (England), FC Thun (Switzerland), KV Oostende (Belgium) and Peter Hyballa's former club Esbbjerg FK (Denmark).

In the meantime, the investors are also exploring the German market.

The group of investors does not take over clubs as a hobby, there is hard calculation behind the investments.

If it's true that 1. FC Kaiserslautern has beaten Türkgücü Munich, that wouldn't be too difficult to explain.

With eleven points deducted, the Munich team hardly had any realistic chances of staying up in the league.

Profit then over the regional league Bavaria?

That doesn't sound very attractive to US-Chinese investors.

Traditional club Kaiserslautern, on the other hand, has a large fan base and excellent chances of promotion.