Türkgücü-Aus plunges 3rd league into chaos: clubs shoot against DFB - "hangs on a rat's tail"

Created: 03/25/2022, 12:20 p.m

By: Moritz Bletzinger

Pity and anger: Those responsible in the 3rd league experience the downfall of Türkgücü emotionally.

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Türkgücü Munich breaks off the season.

And thus affects a number of other clubs.

The 3rd league is pissed off - partly also on the DFB.

Munich - Türkgücü Munich can no longer.

The bankruptcy drove the club to sudden ruin.

The team withdraws from ongoing game operations because there is no money to keep them going.

An unsightly novelty in Germany's professional football.

The fact that Türkgücü Munich not only has the damage alone sparks chaos in the 3rd division.

The table is messed up, 1. FC Saarbrücken even wants to sue.

While some clubs are suddenly worse off than before, the others are benefiting.

The mood in the 3rd league seems to be similar everywhere: Türkgücü's deregistration is a scandal for those responsible for the third league.

Many see a joint responsibility of the German Football Association.

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Even the local rivals don't show any gloating.

benefited enormously from Türkgücü-Aus, but coach Michael Köllner sympathizes: "Basically, no one wants such decisions in football," he said at the

press conference on Thursday, "I'm especially sorry for the people in this club work - and for everyone who sympathizes with him.

It's a hard blow to experience the end of the club firsthand.

I wish everyone positive signals – and that they will soon find new jobs.”

"It drives me crazy," says Matthias Limbach, manager of

in the "image" much angrier.

Above all, he takes aim at the DFB: “How can this even happen with such a strict licensing process?

I can't explain it." Limbach sees it as an injustice that the bankruptcy of one club hits all the others: "A real blow for all clubs that work seriously.

Thus, the sporting competition is suspended.

In the 3rd league there is unfortunately a lot of unreasonableness.

It is not surprising that one or the other gets caught.

Everyone has to question how they do business.”

is also positioning itself clearly: " Total

catastrophe", headlines the club on its website.

It is the choice of words by coach André Meyer, who scolds in the message: "There is obviously a mistake in the system, the licensing process is being led ad absurdum by the insolvency and the withdrawal of Türkgücü in the middle of the season.

There's a whole rat's tail hanging on it."

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remains relatively calm.

Sports director Peter Vollmann says in a club statement: "In the past few weeks it has been indicated that Türkgücü Munich would not end the season.

In the end, of course, this is very bitter for the entire 3rd division.

We would have liked to have measured ourselves athletically in the second leg at the end of April and decided the game on the field.

Now all clubs have to accept the situation like this.

The cancellation of the games will throw the table upside down, and the promotion race will be even more exciting on the home stretch of the season as the teams move even closer together."

described the whole situation surrounding the end of Türkgücü

as "unsporting and unfair" .

The Saarlanders lose six points and fall from third to fourth place.

"We will use all legal options to prevent this unsportsmanlike and unfair procedure of deducting points.

The so-called insolvency rules that are now being applied are unacceptable from both a sporting and economic point of view and must be changed.

It is unacceptable for clubs to be punished through no fault of their own for the fact that other clubs have engaged in mismanagement under the supervision of the DFB," the club told

.

Andreas Rettig, Managing Director of

, had already expressed himself very critically about the Türkgücü-Causa on several occasions.

"The fact that promotion and relegation are influenced by dubious business practices is a scandal," he adds in the "Bild" again.

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even mentions a salary cap in the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”

.

"It could be something where salary expenses are linked to guaranteed club income.

Then something like this wouldn't have happened,” reflects Managing Director Michael Wellig.

, who would have welcomed Türkgücü Munich on the last day of the game

, feels cheated of the season finale .

“One last game in front of your own fans is always something very special.

That would certainly have been awesome," says Thomas Hengen of the newspaper "Rheinpfalz".

"This is a distortion of competition," Christian Tritz rages in the "image".

Although the coach of

and his team are still unchallenged in first place in the table, he is noticeably upset: "It must be made clear before the season that a club only gets a license if it can prove that the season has also is financially secure.”

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And the DFB?

Expressed his regrets in a press release on Thursday.

"The goal must be that this case remains unique in the 3rd division," says third division manager Manuel Hartmann in an interview on the association's website.

In such a case, there is no optimal solution, he notes.

"The competition would also be distorted if all games that the club no longer played were automatically rated for the respective opponents."

He sees no fault in the association.

Before the season, Türkgücü stated personnel expenses of around three million euros, which is a “realistic figure”.

In the end, however, the club brought in five million: "This two million euro difference is pretty much the liquidity gap that has now become the club's undoing."

The DFB will question itself and approach the review in a self-critical manner.

But Hartmann anticipates: "This is where the approval process reaches its limits, since the clubs naturally conclude contracts with players and coaches on their own.

We can only check compliance with the planned values ​​afterwards, include them in future evaluations and sanction misconduct.

That was done consistently.”