The nerves are obviously stretched to the breaking point. Hertha has a lot of problems at the moment: sporty descent towards the 2nd league. Unsuccessful coach Tayfun Korkut (47) is fighting for his job after the embarrassing 1: 4 against Frankfurt. Sports Director Arne Friedrich (42) throws down. And manager Fredi Bobic (50) now seems thin-skinned. Even the players he signed bring no improvement in performance. And now it’s also banging hard between the bosses!
Background: “Sport Bild” reveals in the current issue that investor Lars Windhorst (45) paid for one of his Documentary about the club stoppedbecause he thought they were too bad.
Windhorst spokesman Andreas Fritzenkötter: “We stopped the project because it did not meet the agreed expectations or professional requirements. It was unfit for publication. Example: In the video material, a high-ranking member of the Hertha management makes disparaging and condescending comments in front of the camera about Mr windhorst as an investor. Absolutely useless for such a documentation, as well as many other passages. In the end, the processing effort would have been too high and would have caused additional costs.”
According to reports, a first raw version of the material also failed the sponsor. On Wednesday, Fritzenkötter talked about the relationship between Windhorst and the club: “We didn’t think and were surprised that Hertha would slam the doors after we started.”
And Fritzenkötter announced: “The next general meeting is in May. Something will definitely have to happen.” He left it open what specifically. It is known that Windhorst would like to speak personally to the members at the general assembly.
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But the statement is also used as a question of power over the Hertha President Werner Gegenbauer understood. Apparently also at Hertha itself. The open break between investor and club seems to be imminent.
The Presidium countered Fritzenkötter’s sentences with a statement on Wednesday evening: “We, the representatives of Hertha BSC elected by the members, have noted with great astonishment the statements made by a spokesman for Tennor Holding.”
And further: “With the formulation ‘The next general meeting is in May. Something will definitely have to happen’, a limit has also been crossed in relation to the autonomy of the highest club body. In the common interest of Hertha BSC, we appeal once again to address and discuss different views internally in the future.”
The conversation atmosphere in such a dialogue between Windhorst and Hertha President Gegenbauer should be quite cool.