Bob Hanning rightly shows Stefan Kretzschmar

Unrest at Foxes Berlin

“Borderline”: trouble about statements by Stefan Kretzschmar

Stefan Kretzschmar and Jaron Siewert are a success duo at the Foxes Berlin. But do the two stay at all?

Despite the most successful season in the club’s history, there is uncertainty about the future of two key people in the Füchsen Berlin. This now leads to tensions within the club tip.

The focus is on the relationship between managing director Bob Hanning and sports director Stefan Kretzschmar. In conversation with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Hanning clearly criticized the recent statements of Kretzschmar: “We are looking for solutions that are correct for the association. I find the statements of Stefan to stop the personnel planning. He is borderline. He is an employee of the association.”

The background to the discussion is the expiring contracts by Kretzschmar and trainer Jaron Siewert. An extension has not yet been announced, although the Berliners have been champions in the past season and reached the final of the Champions League. Hanning explained that on the way to the title everything had been subordinate to sporting success. “A lot of what hurt is now being processed,” he said.

Siewert and Kretzschmar presented themselves restlessly due to the current uncertainty. Kretzschmar spoke to the German Press Agency of a “state where, of course, you are hanging in the air. It is a tense situation for everyone involved.”

Siewert also commented on the open future at Dyn: “Of course it is concerned. The earlier clarity is, the better for the sporting ambitions that we have here in the club.” The 30-year-old trained the Berliner since 2020.

Meanwhile, Hanning does not want to be pushed and states to make a decision in autumn. “It would not have arisen at all if you didn’t want to cause unrest,” said the 57-year-old on Sunday at Dyn. He referred to ongoing talks and added: “I would have loved to discuss it in peace. We don’t make any sense that it didn’t work now.”