Werder’s fastest skin
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Oliver Burke’s approaching departure from SV Werder caught the Bremen cold. The people in charge made no secret of this when they made the Schotten decision public on Wednesday. Only on Saturday before in the game against Bochum, the striker was the fastest player of the SVW (36.72 km/h) since data acquisition (from 2011/12). But then he could not be stopped for his own team. The no to the offer came so quickly that the green-whites were no longer able to improve. Now coach Ole Werner ordered the events.
“It is the time when players decide whether they stay with an association or not. Or in the clubs whether contracts are extended or not,” said Werner. “So it would be very bad if it throws us off the track every time a change is coming up somewhere. Or if all teams would always go crazy because things change.”
In the decision of Burkes, which was probably made in favor of Union Berlin, Werner also sees an indication of the different possibilities of the Bundesliga clubs. “You can see in such a week in which a player switches to Union Berlin and become public, where we are in the food chain and how the differences are partially. We played a very good season for this.” According to the “picture”, Burke in Köpenick receives a four -year contract and earns 150,000 euros a month, which corresponds to an annual salary of 1.8 million euros. So far, however, the iron has not even confirmed Burkes’ commitment.
After the cancellation of Burke, Bremen surprised: “Would have loved to keep him”
Werner excluded sporting consequences for Burke in the remaining season, in which the Bremeners are still fighting to participate in the European Cup. “I will try to make the best possible decisions for the team, for team success and for the club’s success.” He would “not take” things in person “and can” understand the decision if you know which package is behind it. “
In the announcement by the Bremen on Thursday, Managing Director Clemens Fritz presented how the Weser was surprised by the decision in Burkes. “We regret Oliver’s decision and would also like to have it. Especially since in the last conversations with our offer we also met the player’s ideas previously expressed and have included the strong performance shown in the past few weeks.”
But the Berlin pokered in the background. “Apparently there is an offer that is significantly higher both financially and in terms of term than ours,” stated Fritz. “Unfortunately, we no longer had the opportunity to make further adjustments due to Oliver’s decision. In principle, we have to make a overall view of both the player and the squad structure in all contracts. This is about salaries, terms and a conviction in development potential. So we cannot and do not want to go with everything.”
Can fully understand the change in the numbers. With all love, but Burke just had to do that.
Nevertheless, I think Fritz did everything right here. With DDM salary and the term we cannot go with us without shoting our structure and taking a high risk. If Berlin sees it differently, please … …
